AAANZ and RMIT University School of Art, hosts of the 2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, are pleased to announced that the third keynote speaker for the conference will be Genevieve Grieves (AU), Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria. She will be joining two other keynotes, eminent art historian Griselda Pollock (UK) and curator Ema Tavola (Fiji). The conference will be held 5-8th December, 2018.
Genevieve Grieves is Worimi – traditionally from mid north coast New South Wales – and has lived on Kulin country in Melbourne for many years. She is an educator, curator, filmmaker, artist and oral historian who has accumulated nearly twenty years’ experience in the arts and culture industries. Some of her projects include the documentary, Lani’s Story; the video installation, Picturing the Old People; and, she was the Lead Curator of the internationally award-winning First Peoples exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. Genevieve has a role as a public intellectual and speaker and is undertaking her PhD in arts, memorialisation and frontier violence. She is Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria.
Reminder: The call for panel sessions is currently open and will close on Tuesday 12 June 2018. Full details about the conference and panel submission process are available here: https://aaanz.info/aaanz-home/conferences/2018-conference/
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