Author Archives: Katrina Grant

Register | ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead | November 2020

October 30, 2020Events

ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead 5, 12, 19 & 26 November 2020 In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the devastation of recent Australian bushfires, the 2020 ACUADS Conference will explore the theme of crisis and resilience. With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic yet to be realised and a recent Australian defence report warning of Australia’s vulnerabilities to overlapping ‘crises as diverse as cyberwar, climate-induced catastrophe and a pandemic,’ is our sector prepared for an unpredictable future? In this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, what can be learned from the impacts of […]

Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

October 23, 2020EventsTalk

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

Call for Papers | INDEX Journal Issue No. 3 ‘Monument’

October 12, 2020Call for Papers

~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~ ISSUE No. 3 MONUMENT If colonial monuments can be understood as ruins, in the sense that they symbolise the destructive force of conquest, what can be salvaged from the framework of monumentalism? INDEX JOURNAL invites papers that contemplate the relation between public monuments and ruin. Papers addressing monuments in the context of materiality, environment, image, emotion, revenge, authority, colonial expansion, white supremacy, and state propaganda are all encouraged and considered. Issue No. 3 MONUMENT is guest edited by Tristen Harwood, a Darwin-based Indigenous writer and critic. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and […]

AAANZ 2020 ECR and PhD Prize – Research in Focus

October 12, 2020AWAPA, News

As the 2020 AAANZ conference is not running this year, the AAANZ executive committee has proposed to run the annual PhD prize in a different mode. This is also in response to feedback on the prize format in previous years. This year’s prize will be based upon a video presentation of research and will be open to all current PhDs and recent graduates. The winner will receive $1,000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis. Deadline – Thursday November 12th, 2020. AAANZ Research in Focus – Online Online format – entrants submit a video (see website for details). Videos should be based […]

Symposium | At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – Australian Academy of Humanities

October 2, 2020Events

16-21 November. Daily free webinars. The arrival of COVID-19, on the heels of a summer of natural disasters, has led to profound disruptions to cultural life in Australia, propelling our artists, creators, researchers and cultural institutions into survival mode, and throwing into stark relief the dramatic pre-pandemic shifts in cultural production, consumption and distribution. Yet the events of 2020 have also highlighted how deeply culture and creativity are embedded in the daily lives of Australians, giving claim to culture’s status as a public good. The 51st Academy Symposium – At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – will explore Australia’s cultural terrain in light of recent […]

Conference | Know My Name | Online 10-13 November

September 29, 2020Conference

Know My Name Conference Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 November 2020 Delivered virtually over four afternoons and two evenings, the Know My Name Conference celebrates all women as artists, activists, researchers, intellectuals and mentors now and into the future. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse voices, the event will bring together leading and emerging Australian and international voices from arts and academia to share ideas, insights and creative practice. Through keynotes, performances, panels, discussions and artist-led approaches, the conference will consider historical and contemporary experiences of gender and feminism in the arts to imagine new futures. The conference is accessible, […]

Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art

September 23, 2020Funding

ACLS invites applications for Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art, made possible by the generous support of the Getty Foundation. These fellowships are intended to provide early career scholars from around the world with time to undertake research and/or writing for projects that will make substantial and original contributions to the understanding of art and its history. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. ACLS will award 10 fellowships, each with a stipend of $60,000, […]

News | The destruction of Indigenous Australian sites cannot be allowed to continue

September 23, 2020News

The destruction of Indigenous Australian sites cannot be allowed to continue Professor Jeanette Hoorn This article was first published in Apollo International Art Magazine 22 June 2020. Reproduced with permission from Apollo International Art Magazine and the author. On 24 May the multi-national mining company Rio Tinto, seeking to expand its iron ore mine in the Western Pilbara of Western Australia, blastedtwo ancient and sacred Aboriginal cave sections of the Juukan Gorge. Plans for the destruction of the caves – one of which contains evidence of human habitation dating back some 45,000 years – had been long in their […]

Advocacy | Submission to Senate Committee on the Job Ready Graduate Bill

September 10, 2020Advocacy

With the Job Ready Graduate Bill being passed to a Senate Committee AAANZ president Wendy Garden has prepared another submission outlining our concerns about the proposed funding changes. Australia needs to invest in higher education for the future and not skew students to some disciplines at the expense of others. AAANZ recommends that the bill not be passed in its current form and that full consultation is undertaken to ensure that humanities education remains accessible and equitable and does not unfairly discriminate against some cohorts of students. The bill in its current form is out of step with the egalitarian, […]

Submissions Open | Inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions

September 3, 2020Advocacy

An inquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions has opened for submissions. AAANZ will be making a submission on behalf of our members, but we encourage individual submissions as well. See below for a link to a survey individuals can fill out. You can read an excerpt from the announcement below, and ArtsHub here has an overview of how to contribute ‘Why you should make a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the arts‘. On 26 August 2020 Minister for Communications, Hon Paul Fletcher MP asked the Committee to inquire into and report on Australia’s creative and cultural […]