Monthly Archives: February 2017

Opportunities – Early Career Development, Graduate Internship, and the Judith Neilson Chair in Contemporary Art

Early Career Development Fellow in Art History at Sydney University The Early Career Development Fellow in Art History position (in the School of Literature, Arts and Media) is part of a broader recruitment program to appoint a number of Fellows across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Each Fellow will be appointed on the basis of specific disciplinary expertise and be located in a department. All Fellows will also work across departments and disciplines to design, develop and deliver a whole-of-faculty approach to the interdisciplinary requirement that will be a distinctive component of our transformed undergraduate curriculum, the Sydney […]

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Registrations now open | Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles (NGA, Canberra, March 2017)

Conference: 17–18 March 2017 Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Registrations now open Registrations are now open for the Enchanted isles, fatal shores: Living Versailles conference, to coincide with the major NGA summer exhibition Versailles: Treasures from the Palace. For more information and program updates, visit the Conference website

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Call for Papers | Women in the Creative Arts (ANU, August 2017)

The School of Music at the Australian National University, is pleased to announce a call for papers and submissions for an innovative research conference on “Women in the Creative Arts” to be held at the school from 10-12 August, 2017. Papers and proposals are invited from scholars and industry practitioners from the creative arts. The topical focus for this conference is the creative work of artists who identify as women. Delegates of all gender identities are invited to submit proposals for papers. Research papers will receive 30 minutes of presentation time – papers should be presented within 20 minutes, allowing […]

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Opportunities and Fellowships

Canberra: Australian War Memorial, Curator of Art, applications close 22nd February, 2017 https://www.awm.gov.au/employment/curator-art-2/ Bendigo: LaTrobe University, Curator, LaTrobe Art Institute, applications close 5th March, 2017 https://www.seek.com.au/job/32773746 Melbourne: State Library of Victoria Fellowships, applications close 23rd April, 2017 https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about-us/fellowships Australia Academy of the Humanities, Humanities Travelling Fellowships, applications close 29th March, 2017 http://www.humanities.org.au/News/News/tabid/109/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2029/Our-2017-grants-awards-are-now-open.aspx   Image: Nina Beier, “The Demonstrators (Hanging Receiver)”, 2012  

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Event: Fair Use and Promoting Balanced Copyright Laws in Creative Practices and Visual Arts

For the last decade, Peter Jaszi has been focusing how the fair use doctrine affects creative communities, and in assisting some of those communities to exercise fair use confidently and responsibly. Recently, Peter has been working with the College Art Association (CAA) to develop a Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in the Visual Arts, which is helping artists, teachers, scholars, museum professionals and others to take advantage of their rights. In a few weeks Peter will be visiting Australia, along with several other international copyright experts, for a series of events hosted by various NGO’s. The topic of […]

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