Author Archives: Giles Fielke

Australian National University: Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship

February 19, 2018Jobs

Lecturer Art History and Curatorship at ANU Classification: Academic Level B Salary package: $96,087 to $109,181 plus 17% Superannuation Terms: Full time, Continuing Position overview The position will contribute to the research activity of the School of Art & Design in art and/or design history and provide high quality and innovative teaching, particularly at the undergraduate level. The Centre fosters interdisciplinary, cross cultural and object-based research and works closely with cultural institutions. Its programs incorporate art history, design history, art theory and curatorship courses which are delivered to a diverse student body including visual arts, design, art and design history, […]

University of Sydney – Lecturer in Islamic Art

February 19, 2018Jobs

Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Sydney Deadline 7th March 2018 Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, School of Literature, Art & Media, Department of Art History Contribute to the well-respected teaching programs in Art History Benefit from working in a collegial team environment in a major growth area for the Department and Faculty Continuing, full-time position; remuneration package: $120K to $143K which includes salary, leaving loading and up to 17% super About the opportunity The Department of Art History at the University of Sydney invites applications for a full-time, continuing position in the arts, architecture and/or material […]

University of Queensland: Postdoctoral Research Fellow

February 19, 2018Jobs

School of Architecture As a national leader in architectural education and research we are always seeking an engaged and innovative person to join our team. As a progressive school of architecture we aim to prepare graduates for a dynamic professional environment where continual learning and innovative practice is essential. The School actively engages with a cross-section of industry partners, diverse communities and a range of professions so that our teaching and research is rich with impact beyond the University. We work to enrich the local architecture profession and advance the discipline of architecture internationally. With strong student enrolments in professionally […]

Keir Lectures on Art: Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth – Chardin’s Girls, University of Melbourne, March 8 2018

February 19, 2018General, News

Free Public Lecture Keir Lectures on Art: Chardin’s Girls: The Ethics of Painting will be held Thursday, 8 March 2018. Lecture: Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. What did it mean to be a girl in the 18th century? Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth examines 18th-century French painter Jean- Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s intriguing depictions of young adults as images of emergent subjectivity. Lajer-Burcharth’s lecture considers the complex ethics of these representations of a nascent gendered self. Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the […]

A Baroque Bishop in Colonial Australia: The cultural patronage of Bishop James Goold (1812-1886) – University of Melbourne

February 2, 2018News

Free Public Symposium A Baroque Bishop in Colonial Australia: The cultural patronage of Bishop James Goold (1812-1886). This international symposium (15 to 16 February 2018, with keynote opening evening on 14 February) examines the patronage of Melbourne’s first Catholic Bishop, James Goold and his contribution to the cultural life of colonial Melbourne, especially through his art collection, library and patronage of architecture. To be held at The University of Melbourne and the University of Divinity (East Melbourne), this international conference is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project examining the patronage of Melbourne’s first Catholic Archbishop James Goold. Investigating […]

ANZJA Call for Papers – Issue 2 2018

January 15, 2018ANZJA, Call for Papers

Due to high demand, we’re pleased to announce that we will be publishing a second open issue of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art in 2018. Issue 2 for 2018 will be edited by Associate Professor Ann Elias, History and Theory of Contemporary Global Art, and Dr Stephen H. Whiteman, Senior Lecturer in Asian Art, both of the Department of Art History at the University of Sydney. The editors seek research papers that engage with critical debates and scholarly frameworks across art-historical and theoretical enquiry within local and global contexts, plus review essays evaluating publications and exhibitions. Articles must […]

Position: Lecturer in Art (University of Launceston, Tasmania)

December 18, 2017Jobs

Lecturer in Art (University of Tasmania, Launceston) Lecturer (Level B) full time, ongoing This is an opportunity for an ongoing lecturer role in a friendly department, in a regional city with a strong local arts scene plus fabulous natural environment and wineries very close by. The position is open to applicants with a specialisation is any discipline of arts practice. The ability to work collegially in a team-teaching environment and to supervise postgraduate research is crucial, as is interest in interdisciplinary research. For more details, go to: https://jobs.utas.edu.au/psp/ps/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1 See ‘Lecturer in Art – 1519’ Applications close Friday, 12 January […]

2017 AAANZ Book Prize and PhD Prize Announcement

December 15, 20171 commentNews

The AAANZ would like to congratulate the following award winners: 2017 AAANZ Best Book Prize Joint winners Susan Best, Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography, Bloomsbury Academic, London, 2016. Ian McLean, Rattling Spears. A History of Indigenous Australian Art, Reaktion Books, London, 2016. 2017 AAANZ Best Anthology Prize The Legacies of Bernard Smith: Essays on Australian Art, History and Cultural Politics, edited by Jaynie Anderson, Christopher Marshall and Andrew Yip, Power Publications, Sydney, 2016. 2017 AAANZ Best Small Exhibition Catalogue Prize Black White & Restive: Cross-Cultural Initiatives in Australian Contemporary Art, Newcastle Art […]

University of Melbourne Seminar: Anthony Gardner – The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.

December 11, 2017News

Seminar: Anthony Gardner, The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography. You are invited to a research seminar delivered by MacGeorge Visiting Speaker, Associate Professor Anthony Gardner, “The Artist as Unsettler: Tom Nicholson and the Art of Historiography.” Wednesday 13 December 2017 6pm. Anthony Gardner is Associate Professor in Contemporary Art History and Theory and Head of the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. He writes extensively on postcolonialism, postsocialism, and exhibition and curatorial histories, and he is one of the editors of the MIT Press journal ARTMargins. Among his books are Mapping South: Journeys […]

University of Melbourne Ursula Hoff Lecture 2017 – Joan Kerr: the making of a feminist art historian

December 11, 2017News

Ursula Hoff Lecture 2017: Joan Kerr: the making of a feminist art historian will be held Monday, 11 December 2017. Keynote: Associate Professor Joanna Mendelssohn, art historian, University of New South Wales. When Professor Joan Kerr was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the year before her death in 2004, her friends were determined that her intellectual legacy should continue. The reason for this was not just friendship, nor a determination that a great feminist scholar should survive the strange machismo of Australian art historiography. Rather it was a recognition that Kerr’s inclusive approach was especially rewarding as a way of mapping […]