Category Archives: AAANZ Conference

Conference Timetable: The Work of Art

November 2, 2016AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2016 Conference Committee are pleased to announce an exciting program for the annual conference. The first day of the conference is dedicated to papers by postgraduate students, all delegates are warmly invited to come and support these papers. The two keynote speakers are The 2016 AAANZ Conference keynote speakers are Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C and Professor Anthea Callen, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham, UK and Professor Emeritus, School of Art, Australian National University. More information here. Please note that registrations close on 21st November 2016, please make sure your register […]

The Work of Art 2016 | Conference Program

AAANZ 2016 Student Bursaries Announced

October 13, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ 2016 Conference, Bursaries, Funding, Student support

The AAANZ 2016 Conference is pleased to announce the following students and recent graduates as 2016 bursary recipients. We particularly acknowledge Associate Professor Denise Ferris (Head of School) and the School of Art, ANU for the generous support of five accommodation bursaries. Joanne Baitz (UWA) Tracy Clement (SCA/USyd) Fernando DeCampo (Parsons) Macarena de Leon (UCan) Jane Eckett (UMelb) Stephanie Holm (UNewcastle) Olivia Spiers (UAdelaide) Margaret Summerton (VCA/UMelb) Anastasia Tyurina (QCA/Griffith U) Kate Warren (Monash)

AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration now open!

August 15, 2016AAANZ Conference, News

Registration for the AAANZ 2016 Conference in Canberra is now open. To register please go to the secure conference registration web portal hosted by the Australian National University here: AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. Rates below: Early bird Student/Concession – $100 Early bird AAANZ Member – $300 Early bird non-member $400 After October 7, 2016 Late Registration fees apply: Late registration Student/Concession – $150 Late registration AAANZ Member – $450 Late registration non-member – $550 Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. REGISTRATIONS close on November 21, 2016

AAANZ 2016 Conference Postgraduate Day and Student Bursaries Announced

August 4, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ Conference 2016, Funding, Postgraduate Research, Student Bursaries

Postgraduate Student Day The 2016 AAANZ Annual Conference will open on Thursday, December 1, 2016 with a day dedicated to recent and current postgraduate student research. Everyone registered for the conference is welcome to attend this day, however, participation in the Postgraduate Student day as a speaker, is specifically open to current postgraduate students and to anyone who has completed postgraduate study (including MA, MFA and PhD) within the last eighteen months. The day will provide a supportive environment in which participants will be mentored in the art of presenting papers at a conference. Depending on time available there will […]

Call for Papers – AAANZ Conference 2016 – now open

July 24, 2016AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers, NewsAAANZ conference, AAANZ Conference 2016, Call for Papers

Call for Papers AAANZ Conference 2016 The call for papers for the 2016 AAANZ Conference is now open – the deadline is August 26th 2016. The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 1–3 December 2016. The conference will be based at the Australian National University, with additional events hosted by the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery. Sessions will be 90 minutes with the expectation that each session will comprise 3 x 20 minute papers, followed by 10 minutes of questions, discussion, and commentary […]

Dr Melissa Chiu announced as Keynote Speaker for 2016 AAANZ Conference

July 21, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsKeynote

The conference committee is delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. AAANZ 2016 Conference | The Work of Art Dr Melissa Chiu How has the work of art changed in the 21st century? Keynote Speaker for AAANZ 2016 December 1, National Gallery of Australia Dr. Melissa Chiu is Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the national museum of modern art, a Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She was previously Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Art Programs at Asia Society […]

Past Conferences

March 28, 2016AAANZ Conference

Conference information and conference programs from past conferences are available below. listings since 1997 are available online. Published conference proceedings for the 2013 conference are available here. Our online archive of past conferences includes information about keynotes and you can download past session and paper abstracts. 2022: DEMONSTRATIONS | Melbourne 2021: IMPACT | Sydney 2020: Postponed due to COVID-19 2019: Ngā […]

2016 Conference

February 24, 2016AAANZ ConferenceAAANZ conference

AAANZ 2016 Conference The Work of Art School of Art, Australian National University Canberra, December 1-3 2016 The 2016 conference was held at the School of Art at the Australian National University, Canberra from Thursday, December 1 to Saturday, December 3, 2016, 9-5 pm. You can download the program timetable and the conference e-booklet of abstracts and biographies (pdf 3.4M). Conference report […]

Report | AAANZ 2015 Conference ‘Image, Space, Body’ Brisbane

December 22, 2015AAANZ Conference, News

The AAANZ 2015 conference was recently held in Brisbane. The conference was a great success and from a participants point-of-view it all ran very smoothly, our thanks to the organisers for doing such a great job. Sessions ranged from Artist’s choreography of the Body en masse to Early Modern Art and Design to Revisionism in Australian art history. The range of topics and speakers (drawn from universities, museums and galleries as well as independent artists and researchers) was an indication of the diverse range of art history, theory and curatorial research being carried out across Australia and New Zealand. You […]