Category Archives: Call for Papers

AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

FIRST NATIONS STREAM: ON COUNTRY NOW OPEN DEADLINE FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER E aku nui, e aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. First Nations Stream: On Country invites Māori, Pacific, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, historians, researchers, curators and knowledge holders to propose papers, workshops, wānaka (discussion forum), or alternative presentations about working on or with ancestral lands/country/whenua. In Te Waipounamu, the earliest marks made by the First Peoples of this island – Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kāi Tahu – continue to act as a rich source of connection, inspiration and inquiry for their descendants. In what ways are Indigenous artists around Te […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

FIRST NATIONS STREAM: ON COUNTRY NOW OPEN DEADLINE FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER E aku nui, e aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. First Nations Stream: On Country invites Māori, Pacific, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, historians, researchers, curators and knowledge holders to propose papers, workshops, wānaka (discussion forum), or alternative presentations about working on or with ancestral lands/country/whenua. In Te Waipounamu, the earliest marks made by the First Peoples of this island – Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kāi Tahu – continue to act as a rich source of connection, inspiration and inquiry for their descendants. In what ways are Indigenous artists around Te […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | Call for Papers Close this Friday, 24 July

CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSE THIS FRIDAY 24 JULY Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, has 36 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 10 streams and panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region.  If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, you can now apply to join one of the panels listed on our website.  Included are panels that speak to the conference theme Haereka, journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, and migration in art across Aotearoa New Zealand, the […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | Call for Papers Close 24 July

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples 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 journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples 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 journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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Call for Papers | AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples 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 journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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Call for Papers | AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka

AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 December 2026 Tēnā koutou, The 2026 AAANZ Conference, Haereka, (pronounced high-reh-kah), meaning journey, honours those who have come before us, including many generations of Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Ngāi Tahu peoples 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 journeying – through time and place – as it might relate to images, artistic practice, and/or material culture, while encouraging fresh readings of politics, movement, […]

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Call for Papers | Historicizing Global Contemporary Art Markets | Deadline: 31 July 2026

Historicizing Global Contemporary Art Markets: Trajectories, Infrastructures, and Regimes of Value, organised by ARTIS – Institute of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, to be held in Lisbon on 10 November 2026. The conference seeks to provide a historically grounded and critical examination of the transformations of global contemporary art markets from the late twentieth century to the present, with particular attention to the infrastructures through which art circulates and acquires cultural and economic value. The Call for Papers is open until 31 July 2026. We welcome proposals from historical, transnational, comparative, archival, sociological, economic, digital […]

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NDF26 Call for Proposals | Share your digital practice

The National Digital Forum (NDF26) is now calling for proposals, inviting inspiring and thought-provoking presentations from across the cultural sector. If you’re working with digital tools in museums, galleries, libraries, archives, or the wider arts and cultural space, this is a great opportunity to share your work, challenges, experiments, and ideas with peers from across Aotearoa and beyond. This year’s programme is exploring big questions around digital connection, collaboration, capability building, advocacy, and navigating change. Whether you’ve presented before or are bringing a fresh perspective, diverse voices are warmly encouraged. Submissions close Sunday 31 May, 11.59pm NZT Check out the conference […]

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Call of Papers | 2026 Auckland Symposium | The Cost of Art Crime

Call for Papers: Auckland Symposium 19 September 2026 The theme of the 2026 New Zealand Art Crime Research Trust’s symposium is ‘The Cost of Art Crime’. We are looking for papers, 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for Q&A, relating directly to the symposium’s theme. Specific areas that we are hoping to find speakers for include:  Conservation  Public Art  Artificial Intelligence  Indigenous Art Although we are a New Zealand organisation, we welcome papers that have a global reach. All papers are to be given in person. Please send a 250-word abstract, 150-word biography, contact details by 1 […]

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