Category Archives: Events

Roundtable│The Humanities and the Public Good │Friday 17 March

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The next roundtable is open to everyone and will be on The Humanities and the Public Good, Friday 17 March. For more information and to register visit: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/humanities-and-public-good-roundtable Speakers: Dr Joel Barnes (University of Queensland), ‘Thinking about the Public Value of the Humanities through their History’ Professor Frank Bongiorno (ANU), ‘The National Cultural Institutions and Humanities Research’ Professor Julia Horne (University of Sydney), ‘Humanities and the Universities Accord’ Professor Kylie Message-Jones (ANU) ‘Beyond Universalism and Impact Pathways: Why the Success of the Sustainable Development Goals relies on the Humanities’ Dr Katrina Grant (ANU), ‘Communities of Practice, Knowledge Sharing, Digital Transformation and Collaboration between Humanities, Public Culture […]

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Event │Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès │Wheeler Centre

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Change and Collaboration with Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès Join Tina Campt and Françoise Vergès – writers at the forefront of black feminist theory and antiracist action – for a conversation about listening and translating spaces of joy, hope and connection. Convened by Wiradjuri artist Brook Andrew. Wheeler Centre Tuesday 7 December 6:30-7:30pm Register here: https://www.wheelercentre.com/events/change-and-collaboration-with-tina-campt-and-francoise-verges/ Image: Tina Campt (top) and Françoise Vergès (bottom)

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Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

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The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased to host this extended seminar on colour in Victorian Britain. Through presentations and discussion, colour in Victorian arts, sciences and discourse will be axamined. Join in person and online to hear papers by Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum) and Keren Hammerschlag (ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory), and presentations by early career researchers Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean) and Sarah Hodge (ANU). These will be followed by an open discussion with the presenters and audience about the multiple facets of colour in Victorian Britain. Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in […]

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Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall

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The year 2023 will mark 40 years since David R. Marshall was appointed a lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Fine Arts. His former PhD students, colleagues and friends are honouring his distinguished legacy with an on-line international symposium and publication. They invite you to join them for two days of papers on new research across the areas of landscape and gardens in Early Modern Italy, the architecture and urbanism of Rome, antiquarianism, visual culture and performance, baroque to neo-baroque, and, Italian painting. Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall Saturday […]

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Symposium │ Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture │18 November

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AAANZ Membership is invited to join Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture, to be held in-person and online at the Australian National University on Friday 18 November, 2022 (AEST) This symposium hosted by the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory aims to generate cross-disciplinary dialogue about how we interpret metal in ancient and historical societies. Researchers in history, art history, archaeology, archaeometry, curatorship and creative practice will present papers which adopt diverse approaches to investigating the production, fabrication, meanings and interpretation of metals and metal material culture across chronologies and geographies. Interested colleagues are invited in Australia […]

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Performance | Magic Lantern Show for Light: Works from Tate’s Collection | ACMI

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Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy will be re-imagining an historical magic lantern show, based on the shows popular in Australia in the late nineteenth century, at ACMI from 9 to 11 September. Using a pair of authentic ‘dissolving view’ magic lanterns they will project original chromatropes and the thrilling story Jane Conquest, not seen in Melbourne since 1894, all accompanied by special effects and live original music. The show is relevant to people interested in the history of photography, animation, media, projection and performance. For more information about the performance, dates, times and tickets go to https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/light-works-from-tates-collection-exhibition/magic-lantern-show/ Image: Hand coloured […]

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International visual design festival | Graphic Days | 17 September to 2 October

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The seventh edition of Graphic Days®, the international visual design festival promoted in Turin since 2016 by the Print Club Torino association, the Quattrolinee agency and the Plug association, will take place from 17th September to 2nd October. For the first time, the festival will be fully disseminated in the city in 6 main locations (Docks Dora, Spazio Musa, Cavallerizza Reale, Print Club Torino, Casa del Pingone and Cumiana15) and with a calendar of over 40 events curated by local design studios. Another important novelty of this edition: all the initiatives will be dedicated to the Kids theme. The theme […]

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Event | The master from Marnpi | Brunswick Library

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Join Dr Alec O’Halloran for a presentation: ‘The master from Marnpi’:  the life story and art career of Pintupi man Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri  Brunswick Library, Melbourne Thursday 28 July 2022, 7 – 8pm The master from Marnpi is the authorised biography of Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, a Pintupi man from the Western Desert who became an award-winning Papunya Tula artist. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Papunya Tula Artists, of which Namarari was a founding member. This illustrated public lecture is a free event, with registration required to reserve a seat: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/painting-stories-the-art-of-pintupi-man-mick-namarari-tickets-350228431667?aff=ebdsoporgprofile Everybody is most welcome. Enquiries: alec@alecohalloran.com

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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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