Author Archives: Katrina Grant

Call for Papers | SAHANZ2020 ‘What if? What next? Speculations on History’s Futures’ | Perth

February 10, 2020Call for Papers

#SAHANZ2020 The 37th SAHANZ Annual Conference will be held 27-30 September 2020 in Perth, hosted by the Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, School of Design, the University of Western Australia and convened by Kate Hislop. The conference theme ‘What if? What next? Speculations on History’s Futures’ will be explored across a range of formats: interactive thematic Round Tables will enable development of cross-institutional, multidisciplinary partnerships, collaborations and linkages; parallel Paper presentations will be streamed thematically, and the papers published in full in the Proceedings after the conference; Poster sessions will provide a means of making presentations visible […]

Deadline Extended | INDEX JOURNAL | Issue No. 2 LAW

February 10, 2020Call for Papers

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* CALL FOR PAPERS INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for Issue No. 2 LAW, guest edited by Professor Desmond Manderson (ANU College of Law) and Professor Ian McLean (Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne). The editors invite papers that interrogate the themes of law and justice in art, be it in the history of art or the contemporary world. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. Submit to editors@index-journal.org Submissions deadline extended to 31 March 2020 INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed […]

Development opportunity | AAMC Foundation’s 2020-2021 Networked Curator

January 20, 2020FundingCurator opportunity

OVERVIEW AAMC Foundation’s Networked Curator is a professional development initiative for nonprofit art curators that advances overall digital skills and vocabulary, enables them to better understand the resources and possibilities of the sector, and empowers them to collaborate and actively participate in related initiatives. Applicants are required to have a minimum of at least 5-7 years of direct curatorial experience, as well as moderate experience with, dedicated commitment to and interest in responsibility for digital projects. Each application will require submission of an individual curatorial project which they will work to integrate program learning into during the course, this project can be […]

Job | Lecturer in Asian Art | University of Sydney

January 20, 2020JobsAsian Art, Asian studies, Job

Lecturer in Asian Art Exciting opportunity for a scholar with expertise in Asian Art Join a collaborative and supportive network of internationally renowned academics Continuing, full-time position; remuneration package: $125K – $149K p.a. which includes 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 art and visual culture of Asia. The precise area and period of specialisation are open, but candidates whose work complements existing departmental strengths and who demonstrate engagement with global, transcultural, and transregional currents in the discipline […]

Call for Papers | 35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations | São Paulo, September 2020

October 24, 2019Call for Papers

35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations São Paulo, Brazil, 13th – 18th September 2020 Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art – CIHA Comitê Brasileiro de História da Arte – CBHA CALL FOR PAPERS The CIHA Brazil Committee invites proposals for participation in nine Sessions, six Emerging Scholars Seminars, and a Special Session that will constitute the 35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations. Theme Since the first manifestations of its genre, art historical texts try to understand the artistic processes of creativity as a process of migration; inventions are understood as mobile processes. The development of the figure of an […]

PhD scholarships for GLAM at the Australian National University

October 14, 2019Funding

Collaborative Doctoral Program PhD Scholarships Up to four joint prestigious PhD scholarships will be offered by flagship national institutions in partnership with the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies (CHMS) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. A Collaborative Doctoral Scholarship will allow the scholarship holder to benefit from the diverse scholarly and professional opportunities afforded by being co-located in a world-class research university and a major national institution. The partner institutions are: the National Archives of Australia (the Ian Maclean Scholarship), the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Parliamentary Library (Department of Parliamentary Services). The successful applicants will enrol in the […]

Symposium | Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy | University of Melbourne

September 23, 2019EventsPrints, Symposium, University of Melbourne

A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October 2019 This symposium, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, celebrates 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships by focussing on three broad themes – print exhibitions, print collections and print presses – and seeks to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include: […]

PhD Scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities | School of Art and Design – ANU

September 18, 2019Funding

Three PhD scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities. For full details and to apply visit the website: https://anudesign.com.au/apply/ PhD Scholarship: Mapping travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy $27,596 p/a, 3 years ARC DECRA Project DE190100578 Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy “Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy” investigates questions about cross-cultural communication that are raised when many copies of certain art objects—prints or medals—exist in distant lands across the globe. It does so through a study of diplomatic gifts sent from France to other countries in Europe, Asia, and the New World in the […]

Public Lecture | Lynne Cooke – Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art | University of Melbourne

August 1, 2019EventsAmerican Art, Modernist Art

Professor Lynne Cooke, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Contesting Boundaries: Outliers and American Vanguard Art Modernist art history routinely situates the work of self-taught artists, along with that of various other unschooled creators — so-called “primitives,” visionaries, children and the insane — on the margins, a source and stimulus to the avant-gardes who plundered it at will. In recent years, challenges to that canonical model of a privileged center and dependent periphery have come from many quarters. By examining key intersections between credentialed American artists and their disenfranchised peers over the past century, this lecture will bring into focus […]

Job | Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowships at RMIT

July 24, 2019JobsDesign, Job

18 August 2019 Registration closes 25 August 2019 Fellowship applications close The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowships are open for applications. There are four categories of awards/employment: Indigenous Research Fellowship, Senior Research Fellowship, Research Fellowship, and Postdoctoral Fellowship Areas of interest include: Design and Creative Practice | Ensuring social connection and sustainability are enhanced by new technologies through design and creative practice research that draws on social and digital innovation. We ask how design and creative practice can be deployed to reimagine health, resilience and wellbeing; how play can be used as a probe for creative solutions; how to re-imagine a world that […]