Category Archives: AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Haereka | Call for Sessions Deadline 18 May

May 11, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka Ōtautahi Christchurch Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 December 2026 Call for Sessions | Proposal deadline Monday 18 May Call for Sessions Information Hosted by University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the 2026 AAANZ conference theme is Haereka (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey. The theme honours the journeys of those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu people who have traversed and first settled the mountain ranges, plains, and coastlines of Te Waipounamu South Island. We invite proposals that engage with ideas of […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Haereka | Call for Sessions Deadline 18 May

May 4, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Haereka | Call for Sessions Now Open

April 27, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Haereka | Call for Sessions Now Open

April 20, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

‘Unruly Objects’ AAANZ Conference program available

December 1, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference ‘Unruly Objects’, December 3-5th We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to this year’s conference is hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies.The theme unruly objects looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | REGISTRATIONS CLOSE Wednesday 26 November

November 24, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Sunday 2 November

October 26, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES Sunday 26 October

October 20, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECTS | ANNOUNCEMENT OF KEYNOTES

October 6, 2025AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2025 conference committee are delighted to announce internationally and nationally acclaimed keynotes. Ken Arnold is Director of Medical Museion and Professor in the Department of Public Health at University of Copenhagen (also part of CBMR). This world-class university museum combines innovative public exhibitions and events with adventurous and collaborative research in medical humanities. Until 2022, he was also Head of Cultural Partnerships at Wellcome – the London-based charitable foundation focused on health research. Earlier, he helped lead the establishment of Wellcome Collection and directed its first decade of programming. He regularly writes and speaks on museums – today […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES

October 6, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or […]