Category Archives: Call for Papers

AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | Call for Papers Close 24 July

July 13, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

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, […]

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

July 13, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels, Call for Papers, First Nations Stream

Call for Papers | AAANZ 2026 Conference | Haereka

July 6, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

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June 29, 2026AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

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

June 29, 2026Call for Papers

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 […]

NDF26 Call for Proposals | Share your digital practice

May 25, 2026Call for Papers

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 […]

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

May 11, 2026Call for Papers

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 […]

Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind | DEADLINE EXTENDED 15 April

April 1, 2026Call for Papers, News

*EXTENDED DEADLINE: Wednesday 15 April 2026* Call for Papers Abstracts due by Wednesday, 15 April 2026 The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday, 1 October 2026 This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds how women creatives working across image-based practices mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. We […]

Call for Papers: ‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland June 25-26, 2026 Recent years have seen growing scholarly and public interest in the role of colonial conflict (e.g. ‘the New Zealand Wars’) in defining New Zealand settler society and underpinning the social and economic disenfranchisement of iwi Māori. As part of this shift, collecting institutions have initiated projects that have begun to reckon with their colonial inheritance, notably A Different Light: Early Colonial Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand based on the collections of the Auckland Museum, Alexander Turnbull […]

Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

Call for Papers The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday 1 October 2026 Co-organisers: Mimi Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Victoria Souliman (University of Sydney). This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds how women creatives working across image-based practices mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. We encourage contributions […]