Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline 31 December

September 8, 2025ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025. 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 Jaye Early, Dr Shuxia Chen, and Dr Kasia Jezowska. The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are 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 […]

Call for Abstracts | ACUADS Conference 2025: Disobedience | 8 September

August 18, 2025Call for Papers

Disobedience ACUADS Conference 2025 Tuesday 2 December (online) Conference Convenors Associate Professor Ionat Zurr, University of Western Australia Associate Professor Katherine Moline, University of New South Wales Associate Professor Spiros Panigirakis, Monash University Disobedience Recent global and local events, directly impacting art and design institutions and cultural practitioners, reflect a growing fear of the power of creative practice. This demonstrates the perception of art and design as a force of disobedience. How University Art and Design Schools respond to such events has the potential to impact society at large. With the rise of global conflicts and populism, many research communities […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Deadline Extended to 23 July

July 21, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS 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 extended: Wednesday to 23 July, 2025 Conference theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable […]

Call for Papers | Queries #3: Call For Papers | Deadline 15 August 2025

July 21, 2025Call for Papers

Queries is a twice-yearly online journal home to academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer. Queries is available for download at queriesjournal.com Queries #3 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. Deadline 15th August 2025 queriesjournal@gmail.com

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Deadline Extended to 23 July

July 14, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Queries #3: Call For Papers | Deadline 15 August 2025

July 14, 2025Call for Papers

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Now Open | Deadline 16 July

July 7, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS 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 16 July, 2025 Conference theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Now Open | Deadline 16 July

June 30, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS 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 16 July, 2025 Conference theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Now Open | Deadline 16 July

June 23, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS 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 16 July, 2025 Conference theme | Unruly Objects The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – […]

Call for Papers | Journal of Creative Practice | Research Cries from the Anthropocene

June 15, 2025Call for Papers

Cries from the Anthropocene: How might we respond? According to the Macquarie Dictionary, to cry is to “utter inarticulate sounds, esp. of lamentation, grief, or suffering; usu. with tears.” To cry is also “to give forth vocal sounds or characteristic calls, as animals.” A further meaning is “to call out”. This theme follows from previous research themes, “Listening to the Anthropocene” and “Crevice Communities”. The first was a process of tuning in to the human and more-than-human environment; the second, affected by pandemic and lockdowns, examined smallness and extreme locality as a productive space. The Anthropocene, the era in which the […]