Monthly Archives: April 2016

Booklaunch: Thirty Six Views by Stephen Whiteman and Richard Strassberg

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STEPHEN WHITEMAN & RICHARD STRASSBERG Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints The Power Institute is pleased to invite you to the launch of departmental colleague Stephen Whiteman’s new book Thirty-Six Views: The Kangxi Emperor’s Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints, co-authored with Richard Strassberg, to be formally launched by Professor Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University In 1712, the Kangxi emperor published Imperial Poems on the Mountain Estate for Escaping the Heat (Yuzhi Bishu shanzhuang shi). His views from his summer palace, captured in poems and descriptions, reflect […]

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ANZJA Call for Papers: Open Issue 1, 2017

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CALL FOR PAPERS Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art Issue 1, 2017 Open Issue Closing: 15 August 2016 Issue editors: Professor Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, and Rachel Kent, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals. The Journal is Australasia’s principal refereed art history journal. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history and its various emanations including art practice, […]

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Modern Art: The Politics of the New – Sessional Lecturer position at the University of Melbourne

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The Art History program at The University of Melbourne is seeking a sessional lecturer to teach AHIS10002 Modern Art: The Politics of the New in second semester 2016. The opportunity arises as a result of a staff member being on leave for the semester. The appointee will be expected to have a PhD in a relevant area and will be required to deliver two lectures per week and co-ordinate a group of tutorial staff and take at least one tutorial. Payment will be at the sessional lecturer rates in the University of Melbourne Enterprise Agreement.   Please email an expression […]

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Adaptation: ACUADS Conference 2016, QUT Brisbane

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2016 ACUADS Conference: Adaptation 29 – 30 September 2016 QUT Creative Industries Faculty, Brisbane Art and design schools across Australia navigate a range of cultural and economic forces. The pedagogical and research agendas of the University environment create one set of pressures that art schools need to adapt to – along with concomitant financial and administrative constraints. External industry structures and commercial aims create another set of compulsions. The art and design school is continually asked to define itself against and adapt to the conditions of its environment, a pressure that often runs against the studio’s spirit of enquiry and […]

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Photographic.Ontology.Symposium – University of Sydney

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Photography.Ontology.Symposium. engages in critical debate with international scholars and specialists on the photographic medium. It will explore the relationship between photography’s ontology, the camera as a human perceptual apparatus and the unconscious through themes of evidence, the archive, photographic practice and theory. 2-3 JUNE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH & ANDRÉS ZERVIGÓN PLENARY ADDRESS: MELISSA MILES WITH SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS, KATHERINE BIBER, DONNA WEST BRETT, HELEN GRACE, JOHN DI STEFANO, DANIE MELLOR AND TONI ROSS.  

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