Monthly Archives: October 2025

Job | Director-General | National Library of Australia

Applications are sought from dedicated and suitably qualified persons for appointment as the Director-General of the National Library of Australia for a term of up to five years. CLOSING DATE: Sunday 26 October 2025 The Director-General is the statutory head of the National Library of Australia, a Corporate Commonwealth Entity established under the National Library Act 1960. The Director-General provides high-level leadership and vision to the Library and is a member of the Library Council, the Accountable Authority of the institution. The National Library is Australia’s largest library, with a collection valued at over $1 billion and a highly engaged […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES 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 31 October

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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