Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for papers | British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values

July 29, 2024Call for Papers

British art, Pacific subjects, Contemporary values: The Modern Saga and Forgotten History of Reynolds’ Mai Portrait 17-18 Oct. 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS A workshop associated with the Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair 2024 Centre for Art History and Art Theory Australian National University, ACT Convenor: Kate Fullagar, ACU & ANU Keynote: Peter Brunt, Assoc. Prof of Art History, Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand In March 2023 the longstanding battle for ownership of Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (1775) was resolved. After more than two decades of struggle to retain the work in public British hands for its “historical significance […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | DEADLINE WEDNESDAY 31 JULY

July 22, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES Australian National University, Canberra, Wednesday 4 – Friday 6 December 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN The 2024 AAANZ Conference coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. This year the conference encourages participants to explore the past, present, possible futures of art history, curating, and creative practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. We now have 35 panels seeking paper proposals, and a further 15 panels being specially curated with speakers from across the region. If you would like to deliver a paper at the conference, […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES | WEDNESDAY DEADLINE 31 JULY

July 15, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

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

July 15, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

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 across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia […]

Call for Papers | 2024 Conference

June 27, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2024 CONFERENCE | PAST, PRESENT, POSSIBLE FUTURES are now open. If you would like to speak at the conference, apply to join one of the panels detailed below. To apply, read the instructions, and then submit your proposal form to the relevant panel convenor/s. Call for papers deadline: Wednesday […]

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

June 24, 2024ANZJA, Call for Articles, Call for Papers

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 […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue

June 17, 2024ANZJA, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Perspective | INHA | Deadline 17 June

May 20, 2024Call for Papers

COM_Perspective_Anachronismes_CFP_AN Perspective will explore, in its 2025 – 2 issue, co-edited by Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Hélène Leroy (Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris) and Hélène Valance (université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté/InVisu), to the question of anachronisms in art history. Since at least the 1960s, a number of critical approaches have emerged with regard to sweeping Western approaches that classified artworks and artists in successive stylistic periods, and even based the discipline on these temporal and formal categories. They made it possible to call into question the 19th-century “historism” that confused the scholars’ temporal categories with the historical phenomena themselves, juste as they have redefined periods as designations of time, objects of history. In […]

Call for papers | Queries issue 1

April 29, 2024Call for Articles, Call for Papers

Queries is a twice-yearly online journal launching winter 2024, home to academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer. Queries is seeking any of the following: reviews of current exhibitions; extracts of recent postgraduate exegeses; recent essays on queer theory or art history; reprints of old catalogue essays from the 1990s and 2000s; profiles on (or interviews with) contemporary artists; a roundup of recent queer academic material which has found publication elsewhere. mail@queriesjournal.com

Call for Proposals | Islands: 40th Annual SAHANZ Conference | Deadline 5 April

February 26, 2024Call for Papers

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: Islands The 40th Annual SAHANZ Conference, Brisbane, Australia 2-4 December 2024 Hosted by The University of Queensland (UQ) and The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) https://www.sahanz.net/events/islands/ Call for Proposals From spaces of isolation and independence, to archipelagos of connection and knowledge exchange, islands occupy a complex and evocative place in our terrestrial and imaginary worlds. At once utopian and dystopian—places of refuge and exile, extravagance and exploitation, paradises and prisons—islands contain contradictions and contested spatial histories. They provide distance from which to look back and reflect on one’s place in the world and the journeys that have […]