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Applications open | Australia-Korea Foundation Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies | Seoul National University

March 24, 2025News

Applications for the 2026 Visiting Professor of Australian Studies position at Seoul National University (SNU) are now open. See here for the position description and further details. Supported by Woodside Energy and developed in partnership with SNU and the Australia-Korea Foundation, the Visiting Professor position is a funded 11-month visiting academic position commencing in early 2026 at SNU which aims to support innovative research collaborations and promote mutual understanding of Australia and Korea’s history, cultural heritage, and modern outlook. Please subscribe for email updates on the International Australian Studies Association (InASA) website or email Anna.Johnston@uq.edu.au for more information. Please share this with senior Humanities and Social […]

Applications Open │ Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor of Australian Studies 2025-26 and 2026-27

February 10, 2025News

Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professorship opportunity for senior HASS academics The AJF Visiting Professor of Australian Studies is intended to enhance Australia-Japan relationships via a funded, 10-month visiting position at the University of Tokyo. Applications are now open for two terms: 2025-26 and 2026-27. The International Australian Studies Association will be facilitating the Australian side of the application and interview process. More information can be found here Full Position Description is available here Please direct any enquiries to Professor Kate Darian-Smith (k.darian-smith@unimelb.edu.au), Chair of the Selection Committee on behalf of InASA, copying in InASA admin (a.szymanski@uq.edu.au). The closing date for applications (for both […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize: Practice-Led

December 16, 2024News, Prizes

The AAANZ PhD prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation of a recently graduated PhD student The prize alternates yearly between research-based and practice-led. In 2024 the PhD Prize was open to practice-led PhD entries, of which, three were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Yvette Hamilton, ‘Photography at the Event Horizon: The Appearance and Disappearance of a Medium’, (University of Sydney) Abstract On April 10th, 2019, scientists unveiled the world’s first ever photograph of a black hole, declaring, “we have seen what we thought was unseeable.”* The photograph of […]

Terry Smith appointed Slade Professor 2025-26

December 16, 2024Events, News

Terry Smith has been appointed Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge, 2025-2026. During Lent Term, January 27 to March 19, 2026, he will present a lecture series entitled IMAGE AS IDEA: SEEING, SHOWING, THINKING IN THE HISTORY OF ART The Slade Professorship of Fine Art at Cambridge was founded in 1869 as the result of a bequest from the art collector Felix Slade (1788-1868). At the same time, similar chairs were founded in the Universities of Oxford and London. Holders of the Chair usually deliver eight public lectures and four classes for students in the department of the […]

UPDATE OR ADD YOUR PROFILE TO THE DIRECTORY OF ART HISTORIANS AND ART RESEARCHERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

November 25, 2024News

Art historians and art researchers practicing in the Asia Pacific Region region are producing significant and innovative research which is of great interest to scholars and to relevant industry sectors including museums and galleries. The Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region enables research, expertise, and contact details for these historians and researchers to be found quickly and easily. The Directory is a searchable database of experts – academics, researchers, teachers, writers, editors, curators, and museum professionals – specialising in art, architecture, and visual culture from all periods and geographic regions. Browse the directory. Update or add your profile

Notice of AAANZ 2024 annual general meeting

November 18, 2024News

The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) is the peak professional body for art writers, academics, curators, and artists providing a platform for advocacy, critical thinking and the sharing of knowledge. Notice of AAANZ 2023 annual general meeting You are notified that the Annual General Meeting of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held at: Venue Australian National University, Coombs Theatre, HC Coombs Building (Building #8). Enter from Fellows Road Date Thursday 5 December 2024 Time 4.15 – 5.00 pm Documents Agenda 2024 Proxy Form Minutes from the Annual General Meeting 2023 Item 9: […]

Journal | Queries #1

September 30, 2024News

Queries #1 now available for free download here Queries : academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer

Vale Professor Emerita Margaret Mary Manion IBVM, AO, FAHA | 7 March 1935 – 3 September 2024

September 16, 2024News

Margaret Manion was one of Australia’s pre-eminent art historians, and an internationally acclaimed scholar of Medieval and Renaissance art, in particular of illuminated manuscripts. Margaret Manion was a student of the Loreto Convent at Normanhurst, New South Wales, and subsequently became a member of the Loreto Sisters, a Roman Catholic religious congregation dedicated to education, community development and social justice. Following her completion of a BA in Education, her teaching career began at Loreto Abbey Mary’s Mount, a secondary school in Ballarat (now Loreto College, Victoria). There, and when still a young woman, she was appointed School Principal, the first […]

Survey | Visual Arts Work: national survey of visual artists, craft artists, and arts workers

September 16, 2024News

Are you a visual artist, craft artist, or arts worker in Australia – or an Australian citizen working in the sector overseas? Please fill in our 15-minute survey to give us a clearer understanding of the diversity of arts work and career lifecycles. The survey is open until Friday 27 September 2024 at visualartswork.net.au/survey. Image: Eugenia Lim, ‘The People’s Currency’ (2017), Federation Square, Naarm/Melbourne, commissioned by 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art for AsiaTOPA, photo by Zan Wimberley, courtesy of the artist and STATION. — Visual Arts Work: sustainable strategies for the Australian visual arts and craft sector visualartswork.net.au

We need your help to celebrate 50 Years of AAANZ!

September 9, 2024News

AAANZ is proudly celebrating 50 years as the leading organisation that represents, art historians, practice-led researchers, arts writers and curators. Since 1974 it has fostered the dissemination of knowledge and debate about art, curatorship, and artistic practice throughout the region. As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations – to be marked at the annual conference in December – we are calling on our community to contribute to a digital publication. This 50th anniversary digital edition will: showcase the breadth of arts-focused research and writing across the region it will reflect on how our disciplines have changed since the 1970s invite people to […]