Category Archives: Events

Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium | ANU and Zoom

July 7, 2021Events

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 […]

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

July 1, 2021Call for Papers, EventsCall for Papers

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: […]

Workshop │ The Performance and Pedagogy Working Group

June 6, 2021Events

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, […]

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 […]