Category Archives: Events

Symposium | Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts | RMIT

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Artistic Courage: reimagining work, ambition, and equity in the arts Date: Friday, 29 July 2022, 12 – 5pm Location: RMIT University (CBD location to be confirmed soon) Registration is free for this symposium and all are welcome: register here This symposium brings together artists, researchers, and organisers to yarn, present, and perform about their diverse arts practices and imagine creative approaches for the future of work in the visual arts sector. Participants will present creative ideas that challenge existing processes and structures to create more equitable, inclusive, and collaborative approaches that recognise and embrace the diverse cultural and social values in artistic and creative practices today. Presentations include artists, […]

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Event | Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event | Adelaide

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Symposium on Japanese War Art: In Person event REGISTRATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL and CLOSE SUNDAY 17 JULY 2022 Cost FREE Register here About the event: Thursday 21 July 2022, Flinders Victoria Square, Adelaide, SA 3:30pm – 4.00pm : Registration 4:00pm -4:15pm Opening of the Symposium: Emeritus Prof Purnendra Jain (University of Adelaide) 4:15pm – 5:00pm Keynote speech : Australian internment and POW camp histories , Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) 5:00pm Drinks 5:15pm – 6:00pm Book launch: Four Years in a Red Coat (Translation of Miyakatsu Koike’s Loveday diary, Wakefield, 2022). Edited by Prof Peter Monteath (Flinders University) and Dr Yuriko Nagata (University of Queensland) Launched by […]

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Power Institute Public Programs 2022 now launched

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 Registration is now open for the Power Institute Public Programs 2022 The Power Institute is delighted to launch our public programs schedule for 2022.  Registration for all our talks, lectures and roundtables is now open! Our program this year is divided into three discrete series, and our speakers include MCKENZIE WARK on queer raves, THY PHU on socialist futurity in Vietnam, LISA NAKAMURA on the new metaverse and women of colour, TINA CAMPT, CHRISTOPHER PINNEY and many others. We also have a new series, “Ways of Being”, that will delve into the knowledge systems of four different Aboriginal communities. All […]

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EVENT │ In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte │The James Gallery

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In and Beyond Academia: A Conversation with Ananda Cohen-Aponte When Friday, 18 March 4:00pm (EDT) Where This event will take place online via Zoom Register here Join The James Gallery for “In and Beyond Academia” a discussion with Ananda Cohen-Aponte. The scholarship and advocacy of Ananda Cohen-Aponte (Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY) examine and expose critical issues in art history as both a humanistic discipline and a profession. Beyond her research on colonial painting from the Andes, which focuses on racial, political, and social questions, she has also published about issues of diversity and inclusion in art history as well as on […]

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Currents Special Issue Launch | Archipelagic Encounters

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Launch of ‘Archipelagic Encounters’, Currents first Special Issue When: Friday 10 December, 6pm-8pm Where: Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC), 45 Moreland Street, Footscray 3011 ‘Archipelagic Encounters’ includes contributions by early career researchers from McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore and the University of Melbourne. This special issue reflects the diverse networked relations between artistic practices and art histories that move across and within the Asia-Pacific. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic ‘Archipelagic Encounters’ is an experiment in island encounters of the digital turn, among people geographically separated by water and socially separated by their respective lockdown […]

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Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium | ANU and Zoom

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Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium at the Australian National University About this event Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom. Time and Date: 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021 In-person Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Australian National University An online keynote address Tales of the unbeautiful: The Elephant Man as modern fable by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) will be held at […]

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Call for papers and sessions | Digital Intimacies #7: Conflict in My Outlook Symposium | University of Queensland

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December 6 & 7, 2021. On site at The University of Queensland, plus virtual sessions.    Digital Intimacies #7 now invites abstracts, proposals for digital experiments and in-person or virtual sessions. We welcome papers across disciplines and approaches that explore the entanglements between our intimate experiences, feelings, affects, bodies and digital media and technologies. Due 15 August 2021.    The on-campus event will be run in partnership with UQ Art Museum’s Conflict in My Outlook: Don’t Be Evil exhibition. The symposium will conclude with a public keynote lecture by AI ethics scholar Kate Crawford on the subject of her new book Atlas of AI: […]

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Workshop │ The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group

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The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group is in the process of reimaging itself, and we are seeking collaborators in shaping its future. This June and July we will host two sets of global workshops, spread across multiple time zones, to explore the complex relationship between performance and institutions of pedagogy. We begin from the premise that performing/performance engenders specific ways of knowing. At the same time, organizations and institutions are, themselves, formal and informal rule systems that codify modes of being across their architectural, textual and digital platforms. At the intersection of these considerations, we will focus on embodied knowing, […]

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Enduring Versailles: A panel discussion and book launch hosted by HECAA

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A panel discussion to celebrate the publication of The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, afterlives of the Domaine (Bloomsbury, 2020) This is an online event—a Zoom link will be sent to those who have registered one day prior. PLease register here via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/enduring-versailles-a-panel-discussion-and-book-launch-hosted-by-hecaa-tickets-151153731881?ref=estw To celebrate the launch of the new book edited by Mark Ledbury and Robert Wellington, The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), we invite you to join us for a panel discussion on the place of the château de Versailles, the Trianons and the domaine in the history of art today. As symbol, […]

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Workshop | Medieval and Early Modern Art History | University of Melbourne

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A workshop on the art history research of the Medieval and Early Modern period will be held on April 19th. This is organised by the graduate research students in the University of Melbourne. Four students will present their current research that will look at the development of art in Europe and its communication through trade or diplomatic exchanges with the other Eurasian areas. More information here For a zoom link, please contact shiqiul@student.unimelb.edu.au. Image credit: 1375 Atlas Catalan, by Abraham Cresques, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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