This year’s Forum Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and the Public Good will be held at the University of Melbourne on 8 and 9 October. Over the course of two days, academics, researchers, political leaders, policy makers and arts practitioners will explore, debate and develop future strategies for the humanities, arts and social sciences to contribute to public good – see http://www.chass.org.au/forum/register.htm
The university of Melbourne is seeking a lecturer in art history – closes 7 September 2014. Click here for more details.
The 18th annual Work In Progress (WIP) is a postgraduate conference addressing the theme of “The Life of Things” from disciplines within the humanities including literary and cultural studies, film, media and communication studies, drama, art history, and writing. Call for papers closes 31 July 2014.
The 34th World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art will be held from 7 – 11 July 2014 in Melbourne, Australia. Located in the Asia Pacific, this Congress will consider key themes which demonstrate artistic diversity and celebrate the innovations of the present against the backdrop of the past. The growth of a contemporary art in many nations throughout Asia will be a major theme, as will the revived awareness of traditional and indigenous cultures throughout the Pacific region. Particular emphasis will be placed on Australian Indigenous culture and its emergence as an international art force and […]
Sunday 1 December 2013, 2:00-4:00pm at the MCA Veolia Lecture Theatre Join us for a Sunday afternoon at the MCA to hear eminent philosopher Professor Gernot Böhme speak about the concept of atmospheres in art, architecture, cities and aesthetics. Atmosphere, Boehme argues, is not only the subject matter of art and architecture. We equally recognize the atmosphere of a city as something that makes it peculiar and individual. But what is really at stake when we talk about the atmosphere of a city or a building is precisely the way that life unfolds within it. Gernot Böhme theories have become highly […]
Dr Pamela Zeplin (19 January 1949 – 9 August 2013) was a much loved and highly regarded academic at the School of Art, Architecture & Design, University of South Australia. After undertaking studies at Monash University Pam moved to Adelaide in 1981 to take up a position at what was then the South Australian School of Art located at Underdale. Working in the Department of Art History and Theory for thirty-two years she influenced generations of South Australian artists, writers and curators. Pam considered teaching and post-graduate supervision to be an essential part of her art practice. Pam was […]
The AAANZ sends its respects to the family and colleagues of Associate Professor Bonnie English who passed away on 25 June 2013. Bonnie spent much of her life building up the area of fashion research, gained an international reputation in the area, and staged the first exhibition of Japanese fashion in Australia, ‘Tokyo Vogue’, in 1999, which I reviewed at the time for ‘Art Monthly’. Bonnie was a regular conference speaker at AAANZ over the years and she will be missed by her community at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University where she worked since 1975. Peter McNeil
A new competition for recent PhD Graduates to be judged on Saturday 7 December 2013. The outstanding presentation will receive $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis the new publisher of the AAANZ journal. Read more…
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