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University of Melbourne Symposium – Hidden Traces of Shared History

Hidden Traces of Shared History: Rethinking Asia Pacific through 19th and early 20th century photographs Academic Symposium 29 August 2016, 9:30am-4:30pm, Japanese Room, MSD Building Register here for the Symposium and Keynote attendance Keynote Address: Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington 29 August 2016, 5:30-7:00pm, Singapore Theatre, MSD Building Register here for the Keynote Address attendance only This symposium brings together leading researchers who are working on 19th and early 20th century collections of Asia Pacific photographs. Alongside a broader consideration of the significance of the history of photography in the region, explorations of visual and built traces of […]

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University of WA Symposium – Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century Amercian and Australian Landscape Painting

Online registration for ‘Colonization & Wilderness: Nineteenth-Century American and Australian Landscape Painting’, an international symposium, convened by Emeritus Professor Richard Read, held at Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 27-28 September 2016, is now open. In collaboration with The University of Western Australia and The Terra Foundation for American Art, the symposium addresses paintings from both countries brought together in the exhibition Continental Shift and Unknown Land: Mapping and Imagining Western Australia.’ Speakers include Professor David Peters Corbett (Courtauld Institute, London and University of East Anglia), Associate Professor Rachael Z. DeLue (Princeton University), Dr David Hansen (Australian National University), […]

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Book Launch at MUMA – Ian McLean

Book Launch Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art Wednesday 24 August 6pm Location: MADA Faculty Gallery Ground floor, Building G Monash University, Caulfield campus Join MUMA for the launch of Ian McLean’s latest book,Rattling Spears: A History of Indigenous Australian Art. As Senior Research Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Wollongong and Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Australia, McLean is an internationally recognised scholar. His previous books include Double Desire: Transculturation and Indigenous Art (2014), How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art (2011) and White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art (2009). He […]

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AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration now open!

Registration for the AAANZ 2016 Conference in Canberra is now open. To register please go to the secure conference registration web portal hosted by the Australian National University here: AAANZ 2016 Conference Registration Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. Rates below: Early bird Student/Concession – $100 Early bird AAANZ Member – $300 Early bird non-member $400 After October 7, 2016 Late Registration fees apply: Late registration Student/Concession – $150 Late registration AAANZ Member – $450 Late registration non-member – $550 Early Bird Registration will be available until October 7, 2016. REGISTRATIONS close on November 21, 2016

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Conference – Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914, September 8-11, The University of Melbourne

The University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne presents Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits 1700-1914 A four day conference between September 8-11, 2016 that focuses on British or Australian portraits between 1700 and 1914, both as separate fields and as overlapping or comparative studies. For information on the presenters and to register, visit http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication/study/art-history-and-art-curatorship/human-kind

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Lecture: Charles Green – Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art

Charles Green Biennales, Triennales and documenta: The Exhibitions That Created Contemporary Art Tuesday, 23rd August 2016, 6:00pm Clemenger BBDO Auditorium National Gallery of Victoria International Free to attend Two main questions overlap in this lecture. What is the impact of biennials on contemporary art? And how have biennials changed in the course of the appearance of contemporary art? We will sum up the issues that we see played out in different biennials between 1955 to now. We will work through a typology of biennial formats, noting that each appears in turn as an answer to a set of problems and […]

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University of Queensland: PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture

2 x PhD Scholarships, School of Architecture, University of Queensland (Deadline: Aug 21, 2016) The School of Architecture at the University of Queensland invites applications for two research projects: 1)  How Meston’s ‘Wild Australia Show’ Shaped Australian Aboriginal History  The Wild Australia Show (1892-93), staged by a diverse company of Aboriginal people for metropolitan audiences, provides the focus for an interdisciplinary study of performance, photography, collections, frontier environments and race relations in colonial Australia. Using archival and visual records, and in partnership with key cultural institutions and Indigenous communities, the research seeks to produce an authoritative and original interpretation of the […]

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AAANZ 2016 Conference Postgraduate Day and Student Bursaries Announced

Postgraduate Student Day The 2016 AAANZ Annual Conference will open on Thursday, December 1, 2016 with a day dedicated to recent and current postgraduate student research. Everyone registered for the conference is welcome to attend this day, however, participation in the Postgraduate Student day as a speaker, is specifically open to current postgraduate students and to anyone who has completed postgraduate study (including MA, MFA and PhD) within the last eighteen months. The day will provide a supportive environment in which participants will be mentored in the art of presenting papers at a conference. Depending on time available there will […]

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UQ Development Fellowships

The University of Queensland Development Fellowships aim to foster development of the most promising early career researchers and retain mid-career and senior academic staff of exceptional calibre at the University. By investing in the best and brightest talent across all career levels, the UQ Development Fellowships facilitate a trajectory of continued excellence and impact in research, teaching and service at UQ. In doing so, the fellowships advance UQ’s strategic objectives in the pillars of Discovery, Learning and Engagement and develop elite professionals who create change in society in multi-dimensional ways. UQ Development Fellowships may be applied for and awarded funding […]

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National Gallery of Art (USA) – Centre for the Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) – Fellowship Deadlines

Senior Fellowship Program 2017-2018 The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts announces its program for senior fellowships. Fellowships are for full-time research, and scholars are expected to reside in Washington and to participate in the activities of the Center throughout the fellowship period. Lectures, colloquia, and informal discussions complement the fellowship program. Each senior fellow is provided with a study. In addition, senior fellows who relocate to Washington are provided with housing in apartments near the Gallery, subject to availability. Senior fellows have access to the notable resources represented by the art collections, the library, and the image collections […]

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