Category Archives: Conference

‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April

Dear friends & colleagues,   I’m pleased to invite you to attend a one-day interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April.   This symposium brings together papers exploring risk, women and modernist culture, especially research dedicated to women who have traversed the ‘risky’ division between centres of modernism – Britain, Europe, and the United States – and so-called ‘peripheries’.    The event will conclude with a public keynote lecture from Associate Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Sydney): ‘From Sexual Abstinence to Hymenectomy: Risk and Failure in Modernist Radical Feminism’.   The event is free, but please register […]

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VCA: Women* and Feminism in Australia since 1970

Women* Art and Feminism in Australia since 1970 A Doing Feminism / Sharing the World Symposium   Doing Feminism / Sharing the World explores participatory art practice and collective collaborations in a three-month program of artist residencies, artists’ talks and a symposium. Its focus is on collaboration and participatory and public projects informed by a feminist ethics that addresses ‘sharing the world’.  Towards the end of the residency program, we will convene for a Symposium at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) with participating artists, writers, critics and historians exploring issues associated with feminist participatory art and women art and feminism more broadly. Women*, Art and Feminism in […]

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The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies, UWA – Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism

The Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies is proud to announce Associate Professor Sean Redmond as the keynote speaker for our 6th international conference “Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism“ in Perth, Australia this December. Guest registration and program for the conference are now available at http://cmc-centre.com/conferences/2017perth/. Details of the conference are below. Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding, and Activism University of Western Australia Perth, Western Australia December 8-10, 2017With the rise of Web 2.0,  people brand themselves through social media as a singular person. The  online visibility of their brand often takes precedence  over social contributions. Their online presentation, […]

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Association RIdIM: Conference, Canterbury, UK, 9-12 July, 2018 – Music and image in cultural, social and political discourse

Association RIdIM: Conference, Canterbury, UK, 9-12 July, 2018 Music and image in cultural, social and political discourse   One of the most distinctive features of any cultural, social and/or political movement is its soundtrack—to the point where the music and its associated iconography may outlive the message for later generations. With or without words, the music and images accompanying social and cultural change are often their most powerful bequests to contemporary culture.   The annual conference of Association RIdIM welcomes proposals for papers which make a contribution to our ongoing discussion of music and image in cultural, social and political […]

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ART AND ITS DIRECTIONS: CONFERENCE PROGRAM

GENERAL INFORMATION | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | SPECIAL EVENT | CALL FOR SESSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS | REGISTRATION & ACCOMODATION | POSTGRADUATE DAY | POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES | CONFERENCE PROGRAM ART AND ITS DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE PROGRAM Download the final program here here (pdf) and the full program booklet here The Conference Committee look forward to presenting an engaging program of events […]

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Queer Curating, Queer Art, Queer Archives – UTS, 18 October 2017

Queer Curating, Queer Art, Queer Archives   International Invited Symposium, University of Technology Sydney, 18 October 2017 1-5.30pm. Faculty of Design, Bldg 6 (Peter Johnson), Level 6, Room 038. CB06.06.038 [adjacent ABC in Harris St Ultimo]   The inclusive and sometimes controversial word ‘queer’ is both noun and adjective that describes, in theorist of the classical world and sexuality David Halperin’s words, a horizon to think through both past and present. It often describes a state of becoming rather than something fully resolved, a concept that derives from proto-queer theorists including Michel Foucault and the later work of Judith Butler. […]

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ART AND ITS DIRECTIONS: SPECIAL EVENT

GENERAL INFORMATION | KEYNOTE SPEAKERS | SPECIAL EVENT | CALL FOR SESSIONS CALL FOR PAPERS | REGISTRATION & ACCOMODATION | POSTGRADUATE DAY | POSTGRADUATE BURSARIES | CONFERENCE PROGRAM SPECIAL VIEWING OF THE KERRY STOKES COLLECTION Thursday 7 December 5.30 – 7.30pm Guests arrive 5.30pm Welcome drinks followed by collection viewing from 6.00pm The Kerry Stokes Collection is one of […]

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