Nancy Underhill, founder of the UQ Department of Art History and inaugural Director of the University of Queensland Art Museum has been appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland. Please find the invitation to Art History 40th Birthday Party at the University of Queensland December 11 2017 – https://alumni.uq.edu.au/event/session/4641
Australian cultural institutions hold growing digital collections: a major resource, and a platform for access, engagement and research; they also come with challenges that will require new knowledge, innovative practice, and ongoing investigation. Emerging lab models and collaborative initiatives within the GLAM sector show great promise; so how can universities best work with the GLAM sector to help realise the potential of our digital collections? This one-day workshop aims to support future collaborations through: Understanding what’s already working through cross-sector case studies; Establishing shared aims and agendas for broader collaboration Mapping challenges and opportunities across both sectors Speakers will include: […]
Early Bird Registration for this years conference will end on the 22nd of October. Please register now for this years conference. Don’t forget to RSVP for the Stokes Collection Event when you register. There are limited places for this event. Art and Its Directions | Registration
Interested in research and scholarly writing on Indigenous art? With an aim to foster critical understandings of Australian Indigenous art and culture, the Power Institute has established a dissertation prize for the best PhD, DPhil or Master by Research written on Indigenous art. The prize will be financial ($2,000) and the winning author will be invited to present their research at the University of Sydney. Academic supervisors will be invited to nominate candidates and a jury led by Professor Ian McLean, of the University of Melbourne, will select an awardee. Applications close September 2017. The prizes will be awarded annually […]
James Elkins: Limits of the Criticism of Writing in the Humanities Free Public Lecture: Keir Lectures on Art series: James Elkins: Limits of the Criticism of Writing in the Humanities will be held Friday, 27 October 2017. https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/9566-james-elkins-limits-of-the-criticism-of-writing-in-the The University of Melbourne is pleased to present a lecture by James Elkins, Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ever since new criticism, literary study has been developing ideas of close reading; since the inception of poststructuralism, there has been wide acknowledgment of the constructed nature of the […]
A two day symposium as part of the ARC project Women Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970. The symposium will be held on the 22 and 23 of February 2018 alongside Doing Feminism/Sharing the World (an artist-in-residency program from December – February at the Norma Redpath House) and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art’s feminist exhibition Unfinished Business. We hope you will be interested to contribute and/or attend the symposium. There are a variety of ways to present listed on the site. Please circulate the call for submission to anyone you think might be interested. Call for submissions closes November 17, 2017. […]
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