Monthly Archives: December 2024

WINNERS│HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR THE 2024 AWAPAS

AWAPA, Prizes

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2024 BEST BOOK The AAANZ Best Book prize is a premier award of the association which sets the highest criteria in our discipline: significant and original art historical scholarship and a benchmark in academic publishing. With this in mind, the judges looked for new historical research that positioned its argument within current art historical scholarship. After careful consideration, the judges recommend that the prize not be awarded this year. Judges: Associate Professor Catherine de Lorenzo and Professor Ian McLean BEST ANTHOLOGY Sponsored by the Australian Institute of Art History, University of Melbourne The […]

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Statement of associations of humanities and social sciences academics across Aotearoa New Zealand on the disbanding of humanities and social sciences panels of Marsden Fund

Advocacy

Press release Thursday 5 December 2024 Professional associations representing fields in the humanities and social sciences across Aotearoa New Zealand are appalled and saddened at the decision announced on 4 December 2024 by the Hon. Judith Collins, Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology concerning a ‘refocus’ of Marsden funding. From 2025, the panels supporting humanities and social sciences research are to be disbanded. This means that the only significant and focused government funding for wide ranging research will no longer be available to budding and established academics in these fields. All successful nations fund research in the humanities and social […]

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Call For Papers | Queries #2 | Deadline 1 January

Call for Papers

Queries #2: Call For Papers Queries is a twice-yearly online journal home to academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer. Queries #1 is available for download  here Queries #2 is seeking any of the following: reviews of current exhibitions; extracts of recent postgraduate exegeses; recent essays on queer theory or art history; r eprints of old catalogue essays from the 1990s and 2000s; profiles on (or interviews with) contemporary artists. Deadline 1st January 2025  queriesjournal@gmail.com  

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