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Call for Papers: INDEX JOURNAL, Issue No. 5, LIQUID TIME

December 19, 2022Call for Papers

Call for Papers Issue No. 5 LIQUID TIME But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us? — Emily Dickinson To restage or reconstitute archives of art and exhibitions is not to calcify history but to register its fluidity. That’s how the past survives—by being liquid time. INDEX JOURNAL invites historians of art (including artists and curators) anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career to submit essays that consider the act of restaging. For this issue, we are particularly interested in exhibition histories and practice-led inquiries into restaging from the global south […]

AAANZ END OF YEAR NEWSLETTER

December 19, 2022News

Newsletter | President’s Report | December 2022 2022 has been another difficult year for many people with the devastation caused by extreme flooding events in many parts of the country. Unfortunately floods are still continuing in some parts of the country, which is another troubling sign that the impacts of climate change are undeniable. I hope members have not been caught up in these weather events and express my sympathies to anyone who has been adversely affected. While it has been a difficult couple of years, AAANZ has emerged in a strong position with increased membership and a program that connects […]

2022 AIAH Art History Research Grant Recipients

December 19, 2022Grants, News

Congratulations to the 2022 AIAH Art History Research Grant Recipients. There were four recipients chosen from sixteen submissions. 2022 AIAH Art History Grant Recipients $20,000 ($5,000 per grant) sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History Judges Louise Box, Melanie Cooper and Susan Lowish Wes Hill Institutional recipient from Southern Cross University Jeff Gibson: Public Pictures About the project ‘Jeff Gibson: Public Pictures,’ involves art history research and publishing, producing the first ever monograph on the Australian artist Jeff Gibson, to be published (confirmed) in 2023 by Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, and Griffith University, Brisbane). As sole editor of the book, the […]

Winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize

December 19, 2022News, Prizes

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 AAANZ PhD Prize. There were four shortlisted thesis’ from twenty-three entries. Thesis titles and abstracts will be published on the website under “Awards and Funding”. 2022 AAANZ PhD PRIZE RECIPIENT $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Judges Katrina Grant, Kate Warren and Raymond Spiteri Kirsty Baker Constituting the ‘Woman Artist’: A Feminist Genealogy of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Art History 1928 – 1989 From the judges This thesis traces written representations of the ‘woman artist’ in published literature, constructing a genealogy to examine the ideologies both embedded in and perpetuated by them. In doing so […]

WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2022 AWAPAs

December 19, 2022AWAPA, News, Prizes

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2022. This years nominations can be viewed here BEST BOOK PRIZE $1,000 sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Professor Tony Bennett FAHA FAcSS and Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA JOINT WINNER Susan Ballard, Art and Nature in the Anthropocene: Planetary Aesthetics (New York: Routledge, 2021) From the judges In proposing the perspective of ‘planetary aesthetics’ this immensely scholarly and clearly argued study proposes two major challenges for contemporary art histories. First, it establishes the case for a critical revision of the earlier traditions of art history and aesthetic theory associated […]

Submissions to the Australian Research Council review

December 5, 2022Advocacy

The Australian Research Council (ARC) is currently undergoing review and AAANZ is encouraging submissions from our members on the experiences and concerns of researchers working in art history, practice-led research and related fields. Members from non-university institutions may like to make a submission reporting on how Linkage schemes can support the goals of their work in partner instiutions. The terms of reference are as follows: whether the role and purpose of the ARC as set out in the legislation remains relevant, including consideration of the contribution the ARC can make to identifying reforms to its programs to actively shape the […]

Event │Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès │Wheeler Centre

December 5, 2022Events

Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès Join Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès – writers at the forefront of black feminist theory and antiracist action – for a conversation about listening and translating spaces of joy, hope and connection. Convened by Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew. Wheeler Centre Tuesday 7 December 6:30-7:30pm Register here: https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/change-and-collaboration-with-tina-campt-and-francoise-verges/ Image: Tina Campt (top) and Françoise Vergès (bottom)

Postdoctoral Fellow, ERC Project “Repatriates: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities engaged in the process of object repatriation from European collections.”

December 5, 2022Jobs, Opportunity, Research Fellowship

Position: Researcher Unit: Department of History E-mail: advert089@ceu.edu Application deadline date: January 9, 2023 Starting date: As soon as possible Full- Or Part-time: negotiable Central European University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow position for the ERC Project Repatriates: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities engaged in the process of object repatriation from European collections. Under the supervision of the Principal Investigator at CEU, Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, the Postdoctoral Fellow will lead a case study within the Repatriates project in Australia. This case will focuses on the repatriation of indigenous Australian material culture from European museum collections. Main tasks […]

AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE │ATTEND IN-PERSON WELCOME TO COUNTRY CEREMONIES

November 23, 2022AAANZ Conference

Associate Professor Anthony White (University of Melbourne) will be delivering the Convenors Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country on Zoom on behalf of the AAANZ22 Conference Committee on Thursday, 1 December, 9.30-10am (AEDT). Access this event here. For delegates in Melbourne, please join us for in-person Welcome to Country ceremonies delivered by the Wurundjeri Council and Boon Wurrung Land and Sea Council and drinks with everyone else on Thursday, 1 December, 6-7.30pm (AEDT), Fitzroy Town Hall and Friday, 2 December, 6.30-8pm (AEDT), Monash Museum of Art respectively. Please RSVP your attendance for catering purposes. Anthony’s Welcome will be uploaded as a […]

Conference | Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies | The University of Melbourne | 28-30 November

November 14, 2022News

Artists’ colonies in the world / The world in artists’ colonies A conference for imagining the artists’ colony as an alternate model for writing art history Monday, 28 November––Wednesday, 30 November 2022 This three-day conference on artists’ colonies gathers over 30 papers from academics working in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the UK and USA. Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre, University of Melbourne In-person and live-streamed online. Free to attend, registration required. The keynote lecture will be presented by Macgeorge Visiting Speaker, Dr Nina Lübbren, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Dr Lübbren’s […]