Monthly Archives: October 2025

ARC Grant success for Art History, Curatorial and Practice-led research

News

Congratulations to a range of AAANZ members and colleagues in art history, curatorial, conservation studies and practice-led research who had success in the recent ARC grants program (and commisserations to all who missed out). Please let us know if we missed anyone: Dr David Rousell; Dr Eve Mayes; Dr Kelly Hussey-Smith; Professor Julianne Moss; Dr Gideon Boadu; Dr Merinda Kelly; Dr Simon Soon from the Art History program – University of Melbourne: Making histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities . This project aims to address the growing gap between young people’s experiences of urban change and authorised […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Sunday 2 November

AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline Friday 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline Friday 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES Sunday 26 October

AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline 31 December

ANZJA

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025.  Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Jaye Early, Dr Shuxia Chen, and Dr Kasia Jezowska. The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and […]

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EVENT | A Curator’s Legacy: A Symposium in Honour of Terence Lane OAM

Events

A Curator’s Legacy: A Symposium in Honour of Terence Lane OAM Saturday 1 November 2025 Forum Theatre, Arts West, Parkville Campus, University of Melbourne The symposium is free but registration is essential. Register your attendance at:  https://events.humanitix.com/symposium-a-curator-s-legacy Leading academics and curators will present papers reflecting Terence Lane’s many interests during his lifetime in a symposium that will honour his lasting legacy. Speakers include Tim Bonyhady, James Broadbent, Alisa Bunbury, Jane Clark, Amanda Dunsmore, Kirsty Grant, Alison Inglis, Matthew Martin, Christopher Menz, Diana Morgan, Michael Varcoe-Cocks and Gerard Vaughan. For enquiries, please contact: asi@unimelb.edu.au

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AAANZ 2025 CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECTS | ANNOUNCEMENT OF KEYNOTES

AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2025 conference committee are delighted to announce internationally and nationally acclaimed keynotes. Ken Arnold is Director of Medical Museion and Professor in the Department of Public Health at University of Copenhagen (also part of CBMR). This world-class university museum combines innovative public exhibitions and events with adventurous and collaborative research in medical humanities. Until 2022, he was also Head of Cultural Partnerships at Wellcome – the London-based charitable foundation focused on health research. Earlier, he helped lead the establishment of Wellcome Collection and directed its first decade of programming. He regularly writes and speaks on museums – today […]

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Event | Art History and Curatorship Seminar | Friday 10 October

Book, Events

You are invited to a special Art History and Curatorship Seminar discussion to celebrate the release of two new books, on Friday, 10 October, at 10:00 – 11:00 am AEDT, in person and via Zoom. This seminar will comprise a lively discussion based on the publications: Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis, the latest monograph by Claire Farago, and Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made, a new edited volume from Claire Farago, Susan Lowish and Jens Baumgarten. Speakers: Claire Farago, Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jens Baumgarten, Professor of Art History at the Federal […]

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