Category Archives: Call for Papers

Image from Choix de Chanson songbook of performers at piano and on violin

Call for Papers | Sound, Image, Text Symposium, Australian National University

Date: Thursday 24 and Friday 25 August 2023. Location: Australian National University, Canberra. Deadline: Friday 23 June. This symposium hosted by the Centre for Art History and Theory in the ANU School of Art and Design will be of interest to scholars, curators, or creative practitioners interested in the relationship between sound, image, and text in the history of music, art, and literature. The event is inspired by the digital critical edition of Jean-Benjamin de la Borde’s Choix de Chansons (1773), developed by an interdisciplinary team of art historians, musicologists and literary scholars from the Australian National University, University of […]

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Call for Papers | BORN DIGITAL HERITAGE NOW | Deadline 27 July

Call for Papers: BORN DIGITAL HERITAGE NOW #BDCH23  https://aama.net.au/conference/ Thursday, November 30th – Friday, December 1st, 2023 #BDCH23 is the third iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference series. The first and second iterations – in 2014 and 2022 – brought together academics and practitioners from across the world to consider issues in the field of born digital heritage, from a range of disciplinary perspectives. A notable feature of this conference series has been the deliberate attempt to establish dialogue between those working in different professional fields. We recognise that born digital heritage reaches into all disciplines and that, […]

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Call for Papers | Understanding Displacement in Visual Art | Network for Art History

Understanding Displacement in Visual Art |  Manchester, 24-25 October 2023 | University of Manchester Call for papers | DEADLINE 7 July 2023 Understanding Displacement in Visual Art and Cultural History: 1945 to Now Despite the political urgency surrounding refugeedom and statelessness, displacement has been under-discussed in art history, and the cultural history of war and conflict. Understanding Displacement in Visual Art and Cultural History aims to bring to light new research in this field of enquiry. This conference seeks to explore the impact that cultural representations, visual art and craft have had on displacement and refugees/asylum seekers, as well as the […]

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AAANZ 2023 CONFERENCE | CALL FOR PANELS | DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 19 MAY

AAANZ 2023 Conference | Call for Panels Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Gold Coast (Southport) 6 – 8 December 2023 The Conference Committee invites proposals for panels for the AAANZ conference, to be hosted by Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 December 2023. Deadline Extended to Friday 19 May 2023 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2023 is in person again! We look forward to receiving panel proposals on all art and art historical topics. Keynotes are Aruna d’Souza and Hanneke Grootenboer Who should apply? All conference participants need to be AAANZ members. How to apply? The online […]

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AAANZ 2023 CONFERENCE | CALL FOR PANELS | CLOSE 28 APRIL

AAANZ 2023 Conference | Call for Panels Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Gold Coast (Southport) 6 – 8 December 2023 The Conference Committee invites proposals for panels for the AAANZ conference, to be hosted by Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Wednesday 6 to Friday 8 December 2023. Deadline 28 April 2023 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2023 is in person again! We look forward to receiving panel proposals on all art and art historical topics. Keynotes are Aruna d’Souza and Hanneke Grootenboer Who should apply? All conference participants need to be AAANZ members. How to apply? The online application form will ask […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS │ BRILL │ Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series

OCEANIC AVANT-GARDE are seeking contributions to a special volume of the ongoing Brill reference work series, Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series www.brill.com/CHAG  This volume will be dedicated to exploring the question of an Oceanic Avant-garde. Given avant-garde studies has extended beyond a narrow Western European-North American lens to encompass discussion of a wider global context, this cultural history aims to examine a topic that is both perplexing and thought-provoking. To ponder the question of an Oceanic avant-garde entails considering the limits of a Western art-historical, cultural, and aesthetic framework. It would also need to consider a history that […]

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ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS │ SPECIAL ISSUE │ CLOSE FRIDAY 31 MARCH

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

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ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS │ SPECIAL ISSUE │ CLOSE FRIDAY 31 MARCH

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te Moananui-a-Kiwa invites Indigenous […]

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ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS │ SPECIAL ISSUE │ CLOSE FRIDAY 31 MARCH

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all.  This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

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Call for Papers │ World Art, Special issue: Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Asia-Oceania

Call for Papers │World Art, Special issue: Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Asia-Oceania Guest editors │ Yvonne Low (PhD, University of Sydney) and Phoebe Scott (PhD, National Gallery Singapore) This issue critically explores how “primitivism” has been mobilised by modern artists from the Asia-Oceania region. The term “primitivism” is used here to refer to the appropriation, within modern art, of forms or subjects derived from cultures that were perceived as being “non-modern” or “Other.” Within Western art history, modernist primitivism has been subjected to a stringent critique, noting its underlying presumptions of a racist cultural hierarchy, and its embeddedness within various colonial systems. To what extent is this […]

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