elsewhereonline.com.au

Events: Notifies the elsewhereonline community of important performances, exhibitions, conferences, seminars, workshops and lectures in universities and other institutions such as museums and art galleries around the world.

Features: Is a creative review dedicated to the inventive interactions of writers, artists and architects to ‘place’. It publishes high quality travel writing, investigative journalism, theoretical and imaginative essays, and also presents a virtual gallery where photographers and other types of visual artists can exhibit their sensed or imagined place-worlds.

Within and throughout the elsewhereonline framework sits a huge image-bank of high quality photographs and reproductions of engravings in personal, company and university collections. The site is designed to facilitate scholarly research, secondary and tertiary education and also for use by educated travellers who wish to explore the places they visit, by cataloguing these images, linking them to texts and analytical information, and making them easily searchable.

Place:  Is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the scholarly analysis of place from the point of view of such fields philosophy, human and cultural geography, archaeology, anthropology and all forms of spatial history, the history of art and architecture, urban studies, architecture and planning, musicology. It explores the interrelatedness of different scholarly perspectives on place, and investigates the interrelatedness of the past with the present. Content which has undergone double blind review, indicated by the star logo, is published on this page, and can be searched and read throughout the site. 

Tours: Australians Studying Abroad (ASA) presents educational tour programs for the general public as well as overseas credit courses run by Australian universities in partnership with ASA in this section of Elsewhereonline. ASA’s educational tours explore the full breadth of a region’s or country’s culture, including its people’s identity, stories, rituals, arts and customs, and its landscapes, cityscapes and architecture. Tours are dedicated to spatial learning and to exploring the many subtle paths which lead from the past to the present we experience whilst travelling. University undergraduate credit courses are offered by a number of Australian universities to their own students, to students from other institutions through cross-credit, and to members of the public through university continuing education programs.

Courses: Elsewhereonline is also an educational web site dedicated to ‘education without frontiers’. It makes internationally available a number of courses on the analysis of places throughout the world. It may be used by institutions anywhere that require a unique, interactive platform through which to teach their students. Essays, bibliographies, and the ability the site gives for interactive feedback guide participants through assessed and non-assessed course programs. Through its review process, students may publish the results of their investigations in the review section of Elsewhereonline. The courses section of Elsewhereonline also enriches learning on tours and university overseas credit courses by presenting pre-tour education, language and travel programs.

Projects: Describes university projects that deal with the scholarly investigation of different places and aspects of places, and in particular international inter-university collaborative research projects. Projects may be in any field of scholarly endeavour.

Who is responsible for Elsewhereonline?

Elsewhereonline has been created and is funded by Australians Studying Abroad to encourage collaboration between public sector institutions and a private educational tour company.

In 2005-6, a team of humanities researchers received financial support to create an innovative research framework to catalogue and search visual images for the site, from an Australian Research Council Special Research Initiatives E-Research grant, “A Web-Based Humanities Image Database and Descriptive Catalogue for Academic, Industry and Community Application”, involving Susan Broomhall (The University of Western Australia), Richard Pennell (University of Melbourne), Bronwyn Stocks (Monash University), Eamonn Kelly (The University of Western Australia), and Christopher Wood (Australians Studying Abroad).

Elsewhereonline’s also provides resources for the Australian Research Council-funded Network for Early European Research.  A consultative board of senior academics, artists and writers monitors Elsewhereonline’s development and reviews material presented for inclusion within the refereed Place on-line publication.

Who visits Elsewhereonline?

You may be a traveller who wishes to research thoroughly the place you are visiting, a scholar or student reading a scholarly article in the refereed journal Place or using Elsewhereonline’s considerable image-bank in your studies. You may be a student participating in the course section of the site, a critic wishing to review an exhibition in Features, or member of the general public visiting an Elsewhereonline photographic exhibition. ASA tour members can access special essays pre-tour reading lists on the site and peruse the places they will visit in its image galleries.

Who contributes to Elsewhereonline?

If you are a scholar, or a travel writer, journalist, photographer, musicologist or a committed traveller you can contribute to a relevant section of elsewhereonline. Elsewhereonline is visited by large numbers of people throughout the world. It therefore provides excellent exposure for your analytical and/or creative work. You can present a written profile and photograph of yourself for the profile section that accompanies your publication. Elsewhereonline has been designed to allow scholars, artists, writers and travellers to submit material from anywhere in the world by logging on to their own personal folders and up-loading material for review.

Should I contribute to Elsewhereonline?

Whether you are a scholar presenting an article to Elsewhereonline’s refereed journal, a photographer submitting an exhibition, a travel writer or journalist, Elsewhereonline will present your work throughout the world to the public and to your peers.