Category Archives: News

Ann Elias appointed to the CAA International Committee

November 28, 2016News

Ann Elias, Associate Professor at the Sydney College of the Arts, has been appointed to the International Committee of the American College Art Association (CAA). The position is for three years and Ann has proposed this will present an opportunity to strengthen ties between the CAA and the AAANZ. The term begins at the upcoming annual conference in February 2017 in New York, and will continue through the annual conference in February 2020 in Chicago. The International Committee seeks to foster an international community of artists, scholars, and critics within CAA; to provide forums in which to exchange ideas and make […]

Australian Academy of the Humanities – Mary Roberts elected new Fellow

November 28, 2016News

We are delighted to announce art historian Mary Roberts was included in the election of 21 new Fellows to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the highest honour available for achievement in the humanities in Australia. Fifteen Fellows, three Honorary Fellows and three Corresponding Fellows have been elected at the Academy’s Annual General Meeting on 19 November 2016. Fellows are elected in recognition of the excellence and impact of their scholarship in the humanities. Honorary Fellows are elected in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the public life of the humanities and the arts, both in Australia and internationally. Corresponding Fellows […]

AAANZ 2016 Conference e-program available

November 25, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ conference, AAANZ Conference 2016, Canberra

The AAANZ 2016 Conference e-program is now available for download as a pdf. The e-program include conference session and paper abstracts and speaker biographies is can be downloaded via this link (pdf 3.4M) The basic conference timetable with times and locations of each session, keynotes and other events can be downloaded here. Please note the following events Thursday 9am-5pm – Post-graduate student day (Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University) Thursday 6pm – Keynote by Dr Melissa Chiu (James Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery of Australia) Friday 9am – Keynote by Dr Anthea Callen (Manning Clark Lecture Theatre, Australian National University) Friday […]

AAANZ 2016 Conference Party at the National Portrait Gallery

November 17, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ Conference 2016

On Friday December 2 from 5.30- 7.30 pm the AAANZ 2016 Conference Committee and the National Portrait Gallery will be hosting a party at the National Portrait Gallery. This is a ticketed event (in addition to conference registration) and numbers are limited. All conference participants are eligible to purchase a ticket for themselves, and up to one invited guest, at a cost of $25 per person. This event includes entry to the current exhibition The Popular Pet show. To purchase a ticket to this event please note that you must use a credit card via the ANU online portal system, no […]

CFP – Latecomers: Anita Brookner Then and Now 17-18 March 2017

November 7, 2016News

As we approach the first anniversary of Anita Brookner’s death, this first international and interdisciplinary conference devoted to Brookner seeks to explore the meaning and significance of Brookner’s vast legacy, in both fiction and non-fiction. Presented by The University of Melbourne Venue: National Gallery of Victoria (International) OVERVIEW The work of Anita Brookner occupies an ambiguous place in the literary field. Brookner has a cult status, was a Booker-Prize winner and best-selling novelist, and yet her work received what she herself deemed ‘censorious’ reviews and limited critical attention. Brookner’s death was accompanied by conflicted accolades that appeared to celebrate her […]

Symposium – Regions of the Contemporary: Transnational Art Festivals and Exhibitions in 1990s Southeast Asia

October 20, 2016News

Join us for this three-day symposium to reflect on critical events for transnational contemporary art across Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Informed by recent archival research undertaken into Chiang Mai Social Installation (CMSI), an artist-initiated festival held in northern Thailand (see Simon Soon’s essay in the upcoming issue of Afterall), we propose three key questions for discussion: How did CMSI, and gatherings like it, inform and displace the more deliberate, institutional pictures of a region propagated elsewhere, for example by large triennials in Brisbane and Fukuoka? If Southeast Asia was still peripheral to the art world’s centres in the 1990s, […]

Workshop CFP: The Arts and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes and images in shaping experience and guiding action

October 17, 2016News

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: The Arts and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes and images in shaping experience and guiding action. Venue and Dates: Adelaide, July 3rd- 6th, 2017 (University of Adelaide & Art Gallery of SA) Organised by the ArtSense Taste and Community project (Australian Research Council funded project): http://artsense.edu.au/ Submission Deadline: 30th November 2016 This workshop is also sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA); and most sessions will run as a stream within the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy: http://aap.org.au/ The papers will address topics which bear upon the way cultural artifacts acquire […]

AWM: Spiros Zournazis Memorial Fellowship

October 17, 2016News

The Spiros Zournazis Memorial Fellowship supports research into the Australian War Memorial’s extensive art collection by early career scholars. The Fellowship is open to honours or postgraduate students undertaking a thesis as part of their degree, or those who have completed a PhD, MA or Mphil since January 2014. Fellows are free to determine their own course of research provided it focuses primarily on the Memorial’s art collection. Scholars working in the fields of art history, cultural studies, museology, sociology and related disciplines may apply. Research projects that demonstrate methodological innovation will be considered favourably. The Fellowship is four weeks […]

Verónica Tello – Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art

October 17, 2016News

Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, […]

AAANZ 2016 Student Bursaries Announced

October 13, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ 2016 Conference, Bursaries, Funding, Student support

The AAANZ 2016 Conference is pleased to announce the following students and recent graduates as 2016 bursary recipients. We particularly acknowledge Associate Professor Denise Ferris (Head of School) and the School of Art, ANU for the generous support of five accommodation bursaries. Joanne Baitz (UWA) Tracy Clement (SCA/USyd) Fernando DeCampo (Parsons) Macarena de Leon (UCan) Jane Eckett (UMelb) Stephanie Holm (UNewcastle) Olivia Spiers (UAdelaide) Margaret Summerton (VCA/UMelb) Anastasia Tyurina (QCA/Griffith U) Kate Warren (Monash)