Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for Papers | SAHANZ2020 ‘What if? What next? Speculations on History’s Futures’ | Perth

#SAHANZ2020 The 37th SAHANZ Annual Conference will be held 27-30 September 2020 in Perth, hosted by the Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, School of Design, the University of Western Australia and convened by Kate Hislop. The conference theme ‘What if? What next? Speculations on History’s Futures’ will be explored across a range of formats: interactive thematic Round Tables will enable development of cross-institutional, multidisciplinary partnerships, collaborations and linkages; parallel Paper presentations will be streamed thematically, and the papers published in full in the Proceedings after the conference; Poster sessions will provide a means of making presentations visible […]

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Deadline Extended | INDEX JOURNAL | Issue No. 2 LAW

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* CALL FOR PAPERS INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for Issue No. 2 LAW, guest edited by Professor Desmond Manderson (ANU College of Law) and Professor Ian McLean (Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History at the University of Melbourne). The editors invite papers that interrogate the themes of law and justice in art, be it in the history of art or the contemporary world. Papers should be no more than 7,500 words and in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style. Submit to editors@index-journal.org Submissions deadline extended to 31 March 2020 INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed […]

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Symposium | Art, Visualisation and the Cosmos in Education

Symposium | Art, Visualisation and the Cosmos in Education Symposium themes The combination of perspectives from art and science are increasingly acknowledged as powerful approaches to both fields, and to education and public outreach. These interdisciplinary innovations reflect new understandings of the role of visualisation in science knowledge building and learning. This symposium aims to bring together a heterogenous group of researchers, scientists, teachers, artists and educators from around the world to discuss ideas and practical applications of combining art and science through representation and modelling, visualisation, big data, and virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), both in traditional […]

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Call for Papers | Art Markets without Borders – artists, networks, demand, value

Call for Papers | Art Markets without Borders – artists, networks, demand, value Conference | University of Melbourne, Wednesday 3 June, 2020 Today’s global art world offers multiple opportunities for artists and artworks to cross borders. Institutional and commercial platforms such as biennales, art fairs, mega galleries and auction houses afford global footprints to translocate cultural productions and their creators to diverse audiences. Simultaneously, visible and invisible boundaries impact this movement both positively and negatively – government regulations, parochial markets, art world gatekeepers and economic drivers. Ostensibly, a global art world proposes art markets without borders but is this really […]

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Call for Papers | 35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations | São Paulo, September 2020

35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations São Paulo, Brazil, 13th – 18th September 2020 Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art – CIHA Comitê Brasileiro de História da Arte – CBHA CALL FOR PAPERS The CIHA Brazil Committee invites proposals for participation in nine Sessions, six Emerging Scholars Seminars, and a Special Session that will constitute the 35th CIHA World Congress – Motion: Migrations. Theme Since the first manifestations of its genre, art historical texts try to understand the artistic processes of creativity as a process of migration; inventions are understood as mobile processes. The development of the figure of an […]

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Call for Papers | Trauma and Repair in the Museum | special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society

Call for Papers | Trauma and Repair in the Museum | special issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Situated at the intersection between psychoanalysis and the social world, submissions are expected to fulfil the mission statement of the journal in mobilising the psychoanalytic toolkit to bring about positive social change, through analysis and/or proposals of models for future practice. See aims and scope An abstract of 300-500 words and a biographical note of up to 100 words are to be submitted to the special issue editors by 9 December 2019. Authors will be notified of the outcome of their proposal […]

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Logo for Crisis conference

Call for Papers | CRiSiS 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (

CRiSiS | 7th biennial conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies University of Leuven, Belgium, 17-19 Sept. 2020 Conference website: http://www.eam-europe.be/2020-conference CALL FOR PROPOSALS Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism. Throughout their history, avant-gardists and modernists have faced crises, be they economic or political, scientific or technological, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. Modernists and avant-gardists have in turn continually stood accused of instigating crises, whether artistic or cultural, sensorial or conceptual, incidental or intentional, far-reaching or negligible, representational or other. The very concepts […]

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Index Journal: Identity Call for papers

INDEX JOURNAL is calling for papers for its inaugural issue IDENTITY. Submissions are encouraged from art historians of all specialisations. IDENTITY POLITICS DISSOLVES THE IDENTITY OF THE ARTWORK INDEX JOURNAL is an independent peer-reviewed art history publication based in Melbourne, Australia. The journal presents original scholarship by art historians from all specialisations, treating the art of the past with the same urgency as it does the art of the present. For each issue, INDEX JOURNAL will invite a guest editor to raise a polemic – in the form of a single proposition – that calls for pressing art historical attention. Submit […]

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Call for Participation | Survey on social media use by artists, art educators and academics

Call for participation in a research survey. Artists, Art Educators and Academics we would like to invite you to contribute to a survey about your use of social media in your practice. We are investigating how different groups of professionals use social media. Social media has changed how we engage with and reach our audiences. But what does this look like across disciplines that naturally require collaboration, feedback, dissemination and profile building as part of your work? Access the link via the profile or at < https://swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0BWwrVDp0Vrp21D> More info about the project: < https://chatwithrellypops.wordpress.com/reach-and-engagement-social-media-use-by-artists-art-educators-academics /> If you would like to […]

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