Category Archives: Call for Papers

Call for Papers │ World Art, Special issue: Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Asia-Oceania

February 13, 2023Call for Papers

Call for Papers │World Art, Special issue: Rethinking Primitivisms in the Modern Art of Asia-Oceania Guest editors │ Yvonne Low (PhD, University of Sydney) and Phoebe Scott (PhD, National Gallery Singapore) This issue critically explores how “primitivism” has been mobilised by modern artists from the Asia-Oceania region. The term “primitivism” is used here to refer to the appropriation, within modern art, of forms or subjects derived from cultures that were perceived as being “non-modern” or “Other.” Within Western art history, modernist primitivism has been subjected to a stringent critique, noting its underlying presumptions of a racist cultural hierarchy, and its embeddedness within various colonial systems. To what extent is this […]

Call For Papers │”Nineteenth-century worlds of vision” ANU 16-18 July 2023

January 23, 2023Call for Papers

The Centre for Art History and Art Theory & The Humanities Research Centre at ANU are hosting a symposium: Nineteenth-century worlds of vision: 1820-1870s from 16-18 July 2023 and are currently issuing a call for papers that can be found, along with further details about the symposium, here: https://soad.cass.anu.edu.au/news/call-papers-symposium-nineteenth-century-worlds-vision-1820s-1870s In sum, the event is gauged at curators, scholars and arts practitioners working on nineteenth-century visual culture: cartography; draughtsmanship; etching; engraving; lithography; mark-making; modes of illustrated publishing; photography; painting; printing; scrapbooking and album assemblage, and its related documentation of visual culture in journalism and literature. The symposium intends to bring together research which […]

ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE, KO TE MOANANUI-A-KIWA TE WAHI WHAKARAHI, THE PACIFIC OCEAN JOINS US ALL

January 23, 2023ANZJA, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all. This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

ANZJA CALL FOR PAPERS: PECIAL ISSUE, KO TE MOANANUI-A-KIWA TE WAHI WHAKARAHI, THE PACIFIC OCEAN JOINS US ALL

January 11, 2023ANZJA, Call for Papers

ANZJA Call for Papers: pecial Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all

December 19, 2022ANZJA, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi, The Pacific Ocean joins us all: 23.2, 2023 Submissions Due: Friday March 31, 2023 Editors: Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions to be a part of Issue 2, 2023, entitled, Ko Te Moananui-a-Kiwa te wahi whakarahi. The Pacific Ocean joins us all. This Special Issue is edited by Ngarino Ellis and Heather Igloliorte. ANZJA welcomes Indigenous curators, artists and art historians to submit material for the first Indigenous-led issue of the ANZJA. Te […]

Call for Papers: INDEX JOURNAL, Issue No. 5, LIQUID TIME

December 19, 2022Call for Papers

Call for Papers Issue No. 5 LIQUID TIME But are not all facts dreams as soon as we put them behind us? — Emily Dickinson To restage or reconstitute archives of art and exhibitions is not to calcify history but to register its fluidity. That’s how the past survives—by being liquid time. INDEX JOURNAL invites historians of art (including artists and curators) anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career to submit essays that consider the act of restaging. For this issue, we are particularly interested in exhibition histories and practice-led inquiries into restaging from the global south […]

Call for Sessions │ Matter Materiality │ 36th Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art

October 7, 2022Call for Papers

The 36th Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) Congress will take place in Lyon from 23 to 28 June 2024 on the theme of Matter Materiality. It will offer a unique experience of sharing and exchange to the international community of art historians from all professional backgrounds.. The call for sessions for the congress is open until 25 November 2022. Discover the website: CIHA 2024 Find the platform of the call for sessions: Submit your proposals

Call for Papers│ Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture

October 3, 2022Call for Papers

Call for Papers Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture Australian National University, 18 to 19 November 2022 The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory invites submissions for a cross-disciplinary symposium dedicated to current research into ancient and historical metallurgy and metal material culture. This symposium aims to foster links between Australian scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to history, art history, conservation, Classical studies and archaeology. Submissions for papers and posters on current or recently completed projects relating to any aspect of the use of metals in ancient and historical societies around the world are welcome. […]

Call for papers | ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD / THE WORLD IN ARTISTS’ COLONIES | The Abbey Art Centre

August 1, 2022Call for Papers

The ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD / THE WORLD IN ARTISTS’ COLONIES conference arises from a collaborative research project on the Abbey Art Centre, an artists’ colony on the outskirts of London that attracted many Australians and South Africans in the decade following WW2. Professor Ian McLean, Hugh Ramsay Chair of Australian Art History, is lead investigator on the 2020–23 project, which is funded by the Australia Research Council. The conference is intended to broaden the international context for our research by examining artists’ colonies of different periods from around the world. The details are as follows: Title: ARTISTS’ COLONIES IN THE WORLD […]

AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE: DEMONSTRATIONS | CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSES FRIDAY 29 JULY

July 22, 2022AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

AAANZ 2022 Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive […]