Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for Papers | The Avant-Garde, Affectively | Deadline 1 September

Call for Papers:  THE AVANT-GARDE, AFFECTIVELY Symposium hosted by the MDRN Lab of the University of Leuven, Belgium Conference dates: 2 – 4 February 2026 Convened by Zanë Hadri (University of Leuven) & Susan Best (Griffith University), with Sascha Bru (University of Leuven). Keynote: Prof Thierry de Duve This interdisciplinary symposium aims to explore how the avant-garde (be it historical, neo or contemporary) intersects with affect. Adopting a methodologically inclusive approach to affect, feeling and emotion, we seek (i) to investigate if and how the artistic experimentation of the avant-garde throughout the 20th and 21st centuries has given aesthetic shape […]

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Call for Papers | Colnaghi Studies Journal Symposium | Deadline 5 May

Impressions of Empire: Works on Paper as Agents of Intermedial Translation and Cultural Exchange The Colnaghi Foundation and Athena Art Foundation in London are delighted to announce a symposium on 25th September 2025, exploring how works on paper were used to construct meaning and identity, and engendered the intermediary exchange of artistic ideas, during the period of global empire and colonisation. The symposium will be hosted both online and in the Colnaghi Gallery in London (although no travel grants are available). Papers can be given in English, and we welcome submissions in other languages with prior agreement. A selection of […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS │Perspective, no. 2026 – 1 : Learning/Teaching │ Deadline 10 February

Perspective  will explore, in its 2026 – 1 issue, co-edited by Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Déborah Laks (CNRS) et Guy Lambert (École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville) to the question Learning/Teaching. Does one learn to become an artist? This question, which traverses the history of contemporary art, has never been resolved. It reflects – and confronts – aesthetic, philosophical, cultural and perhaps even religious concepts. From the standpoint of art history, however, the answer can only be positive, given that artistic production is largely a matter of artist-to-artist legacies and transmissions, whether on a daily basis in the studio and the closed circuit of the school or through the study of […]

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Call For Papers | Queries #2 | Deadline 1 January

Queries #2: Call For Papers Queries is a twice-yearly online journal home to academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer. Queries #1 is available for download  here Queries #2 is seeking any of the following: reviews of current exhibitions; extracts of recent postgraduate exegeses; recent essays on queer theory or art history; r eprints of old catalogue essays from the 1990s and 2000s; profiles on (or interviews with) contemporary artists. Deadline 1st January 2025  queriesjournal@gmail.com  

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CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | Deadline 20 December

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | Deadline 20 December

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies […]

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Call for submissions | Findings | Deadline 19 February 2025

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Due Wed 19 Feb 2025 FINDINGS is a biennial peer-reviewed journal of practice-based exegetical writing by Australian art and design postgraduates. FINDINGS accepts submissions from Honours, Masters, and PhD students in the year of, or the year after, their date of completion. Creative arts graduates regularly produce thought-provoking writing on the aesthetic, social, and political implications of creative practice. FINDINGS seeks to highlight the strength and diversity of these fields by supporting the dissemination of select articles drawn from exegesis submissions. FINDINGS is published by the Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) in PDF […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | Deadline 20 December

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies […]

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Call for papers | Domesticity Under Siege | Deadline 31 October

45Domesticity Under Siege International Architectural Conference Hosted by the BA(Hons) Interior Architecture course at the School of Architecture Technology and Engineering, University of Brighton 2-4th April 2025 Call for papers Theories of the domestic stemming from the 19th century have focused on the home as a refuge and place of repose for the family, a nurturing environment for children and a safe place for visitors. Under this conception, domestic space is positioned as nurturing and private, a refuge and place of retreat which gave rise to theories of ‘home as haven’. While some social conditions might suggest this is the […]

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CALL FOR PAPERS | AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ART 25.2: OPEN ISSUE | Deadline 20 December

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies […]

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