Category Archives: Call for Papers

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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Call for Papers | ArtCrime2018 ‘Provenance Matters’ Wellington September 2018

The 4th annual New Zealand Art Crime Symposium will take place at the City Gallery Wellington, on Saturday 22 September 2018. Hosted by the NZ Art Crime Research Trust, in conjunction with City Gallery Wellington and our other sponsors, ArtCrime2018 will encompass a wide range of presentations on all aspects of, and explore a range of issues relating to, art crime in New Zealand. The programme will favour New Zealand content, but will also encompass international content that highlights or illustrates material of relevance to a primarily New Zealand audience. There will be a range of presentations, plus ample opportunities for networking. The […]

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Call for Papers | DISTANCE LOOKS BACK

A Thematic Conference of the European Architectural History Network, held in conjunction with the 36th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand University of Sydney, School of Architecture, Design and Planning 10-13 July 2019 Convened by Andrew Leach and Lee Stickells Distance is both conceptual and actual. It is overcome or exploited in all manner of ways that have consequences for the history of architecture. It is fostered in the critical attitude. And collapsed when history is invoked in the present. It shapes the relationship of Europe to its Antipodes, as well as of Europe […]

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New Journal – CONTENTION

Contention is dedicated to research on and about social protest and political behaviour. The journal advances essential knowledge on of collective action, social movements, and other forms of social and political contention. By providing a multidisciplinary forum to scholars within and across the social sciences and humanities, it seeks to promote scholarly exchange and knowledge sharing among them. Please visit our website for more information about the journal, and previous issues: www.berghahnjournals.com/contention   Contention welcomes all submissions of high quality, including: research articles with novel findings, theoretical and methodological essays, and movement writing, as well as critical reviews, commentaries and book reviews. Contention aims to present original […]

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