Category Archives: Events

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

April 22, 2021Events

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, […]

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

April 9, 2021Events

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

Expressions of interest | Informal, interdisciplinary works in progress seminar | The Australian Magazine as Material Object and Social Network

March 12, 2021Call for Papers, Events

The Australian Magazine as Material Object and Social Network Deadline for EOIs: Friday 26 March 2021 Proposed date of seminar: Mid-July (dates TBC) We are interested to hear about the ways others are using Australian magazines in their research. With many of today’s magazines going out of business, and as historical magazines are increasingly being digitised, many scholars are looking into Australia’s vast magazine history, from the Port Phillip Magazine of 1843 to the latest inner city hipster publications. We’d like to hear how others across humanities disciplines are thinking about the magazine as a social object. They were the […]

Event | Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath | Sir William Dobell Lecture 2020

November 13, 2020Events

Annual Sir William Dobell lecture Upping the Anti-museum: Covid-19 and its Aftermath Wednesday 25 November 2020 Prof. Adrian Franklin, Professor of Creative Industries and Cultural Policy, University of South Australia Prof. Franklin is known for his work on MONA and the development of para- and anti-museums. His most recent book, Anti-Museum (Routledge 2020) is an analysis of alternative museum practices in Australia, Europe and the USA. Franklin’s presentation reflects on how both he and his research field have been directly and rapidly transformed by the COVID-19 crisis. What was, in Anti-Museum, a challenge to reassess exhibitions, audiences and engagement has […]

Register | ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead | November 2020

October 30, 2020Events

ACUADS Conference Crisis and resilience: art and design looks ahead 5, 12, 19 & 26 November 2020 In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the devastation of recent Australian bushfires, the 2020 ACUADS Conference will explore the theme of crisis and resilience. With the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic yet to be realised and a recent Australian defence report warning of Australia’s vulnerabilities to overlapping ‘crises as diverse as cyberwar, climate-induced catastrophe and a pandemic,’ is our sector prepared for an unpredictable future? In this time of unprecedented global uncertainty, what can be learned from the impacts of […]

Talks | Reading Bennett: The Artist in his own Words | Power Institute

October 23, 2020EventsTalk

A morning of readings and reflections to mark the launch of a landmark new survey of writings by the artist Gordon Bennett (1955-2014). About this Event Gordon Bennett: Selected Writings brings together nearly forty published and unpublished essays, artist’s statements, letters, and interviews from across Bennett’s three-decade career. Selected Writings profiles the importance of the written word within the artist’s art and broader intellectual practice. To launch the volume, and coinciding with QAGOMA’s major Gordon Bennett retrospective, four speakers will select pieces from Bennett’s archive to read, and will then respond to his words in the context of their own practice and/or scholarship: […]

Symposium | At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – Australian Academy of Humanities

October 2, 2020Events

16-21 November. Daily free webinars. The arrival of COVID-19, on the heels of a summer of natural disasters, has led to profound disruptions to cultural life in Australia, propelling our artists, creators, researchers and cultural institutions into survival mode, and throwing into stark relief the dramatic pre-pandemic shifts in cultural production, consumption and distribution. Yet the events of 2020 have also highlighted how deeply culture and creativity are embedded in the daily lives of Australians, giving claim to culture’s status as a public good. The 51st Academy Symposium – At the Crossroad? Australia’s Cultural Future – will explore Australia’s cultural terrain in light of recent […]

Launch of new postgraduate journal | CURRENTS

September 25, 2020Events, News

Launch of new postgraduate journal CURRENTS 28 September | 2pm AEST | 12pm AWST Currents is a new, collaborative, graduate research journal developed between the University of Western Australia and the Centre of Visual Art, University of Melbourne. The first rolling issue of Currents includes critical and exploratory articles by early career researchers from theatre, film, visual art, art history and theory. Following on from the proposition what should a peer-review journal for postgraduate students look like, we will also consider how peer-review works in relation to artistic and practice-based research, and what are the benefits and difficulties of an interdisciplinary research platform? Editors Kelly Fliedner and […]

Online Lecture Series | IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States

July 31, 2020Events

The Power Institute and Discipline journal are pleased to present IMAGE COMPLEX: Art, Visuality and Power in the United States, an online lecture series on the history of the visual infrastructures that have shaped the United States, and the practices that resist them. Jolene Rickard | On visual sovereignty Associate Professor, Department of The History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University September 2020 Lisa Lowe | On migration, materiality and memory Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies, Yale University October 2020 Jennifer González | On fearless speech: radical feminist art and war Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz March 2021 Nicole Fleetwood | On […]

Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS) | 2020 Theme: Ephemera in Digital Art History

July 17, 2020Conference, EventsDigital Art History

We are pleased to announce that the International Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS), a joint initiative of the University of Málaga and the University of Berkeley, with the collaboration of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, the Fundación General de la Universidad de Málaga, and the HDH, will celebrate the fifth edition from September 1st to 5th (2020). Due to the covid-19 situation, this year the Summer School will be all online. The DAHSS team is convinced that we have an unprecedented opportunity to explore new ways of working together in a real global scenario and at the […]