Author Archives: Rebecca Renshaw

AAANZ Pilot Early Career Mentoring Program | Expressions of Interest Open for Mentors and Mentees

August 14, 2023Professional Development

The last few years, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, has seen the cancellation or transitions of conferences, workshops and events to virtual formats. This has generated challenges for scholars to share their research, engage in scholarly discussions and establish meaningful connections and collaborations with colleagues. The pandemic has also created additional challenges for PhD candidates (PhD) and Early Career Researchers (ECR) who have missed opportunities to create vital cross-institutional and inter-state connections that are the foundations of being part of a vivid and vibrant scholarly community. In recognition of these challenges, AAANZ is launching a Pilot Early Career […]

AAANZ 23 CONFERENCE | CALL FOR PAPERS | DEADLINE 25 AUGUST

August 14, 2023AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is now open! Who should apply The AAANZ Conference is held every year, and is the region’s major conference for art historians, artists and researchers. You should apply to present at the conference if you are an art historian, artist or a curator. Outside these core areas, we also welcome architecture, design and moving image historians, museum studies academics, and arts and design professionals. Read more about the conference and its format here. Questions about specific panels and submission of papers to panels should be directed to the conveners listed below. Any general questions about the […]

CALL FOR ARTICLES | ANZJA | SPECIAL ISSUE: DOCUMENTA FIFTEEN: “THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY,” 24.1, 2024

August 14, 2023ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue: documenta fifteen: “the first exhibition of the twenty-first century,” 24.1, 2024 Full article submissions due: Friday 29 September, 2023 Editors: Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau This special issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is edited by emerging art historians and critics Amelia Winata, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hilary Thurlow, and Paris Lettau. They have worked together across numerous art historical editorial projects, including Index Journal, Discipline, and Memo Review. For ANZJA they focus on historicising documenta fifteen (2022). ANZJA is calling for […]

CALL FOR ARTICLES | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 24.2: OPEN ISSUE

August 14, 2023ANZJA, Call for Articles

Call for Articles | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 24.2: Open Issue Submission of essays due: Friday 1 December, 2023 Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, José da Silva, Dr Jaye Early We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. ANZJA publishes research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words (including endnotes), which will be peer-reviewed*. We encourage both traditional and experimental […]

AAANZ 23 CONFERENCE | CALL FOR PAPERS | DEADLINE 25 AUGUST

August 7, 2023AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS | ARBOREAL ALTERATIONS | DEADLINE 14 AUGUST

August 7, 2023Call for Papers

ARBOREAL ALTERATIONS: Tree modification and meaning making from the past to the present November 2-3, 2023 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS – closes 14 August 2023 Within Australia and the Pacific region carved inscribed, marked and modified trees are an important expression of Indigenous and non-Indigenous visual cultural practice and heritage. The broader category of culturally modified trees includes scarring from canoe and implement manufacture and other cultural activities, as well as non-Indigenous practices of blazing and memorialising. Culturally Modified Trees have become a growing area of enquiry. In recent years carved and marked trees have also been an inspiration for […]