Category Archives: Call for Papers

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

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*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 […]

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

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‘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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | CLOSE this Friday 6 March

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

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2nd Call for Submissions | NordiCHI 2026

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2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7, 2026  Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers, arts-based approaches, workshop proposals, tutorials, demos, late-breaking work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI 2026 are available at the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/  Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).  The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts – including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. 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 Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the […]

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Call for Papers | SAHANZ Conference and Journal

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The Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand has calls for papers open for its 2026 conference, and two upcoming issue of its journal Fabrications. 2026 SAHANZ-AUHPH Conference: Absence: Call for Abstracts Abstracts for SAHANZ-AUHPH 2026, “Absence,” being hosted by the University of Melbourne from 7 to 9 December, are due in by Friday 27 February. Abstracts of 300 words are invited for 20-minute, 3000-4500 word conference papers that engage with the theme of absence as it relates to architectural history. Papers will be fully refereed for presentation, with the option to be published in the conference proceedings. […]

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