Category Archives: News

Photographic.Ontology.Symposium – University of Sydney

April 4, 2016News

Photography.Ontology.Symposium. engages in critical debate with international scholars and specialists on the photographic medium. It will explore the relationship between photography’s ontology, the camera as a human perceptual apparatus and the unconscious through themes of evidence, the archive, photographic practice and theory. 2-3 JUNE 2016 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: SHAWN MICHELLE SMITH & ANDRÉS ZERVIGÓN PLENARY ADDRESS: MELISSA MILES WITH SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS, KATHERINE BIBER, DONNA WEST BRETT, HELEN GRACE, JOHN DI STEFANO, DANIE MELLOR AND TONI ROSS.

Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Professor Alexander Nagel, Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient”

March 2, 2016News

Free Public Lecture: Alpha and Omega, or “The Boundary of Our Orient” will be held Monday 14 March 5.45pm-7.15pm. Keynote Speaker: Professor Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York City. The topic draws on art historian Professor Nagel’s recent research on ideas of Asia and America in Renaissance Europe. The decades after 1492 brought Asia closer to Europe than it had ever been. The art, cartography, and literature of the period we call the High Renaissance expanded to imagine a new convergence of worlds where East rejoined West and New neighboured Old. Alexander Nagel is a […]

Professor Patricia Simons, Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ – University of Melbourne – 5.30pm, 9th of March 2019

February 29, 2016NewsLecture, Melbourne, Renaissance Art

Public Lecture: The Pleasures of Allegory: Rethinking ‘Susanna and the Elders’ will be held Wednesday 9 March 5.30pm-6.45pm. Keynote: Professor Patricia Simons, Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. ‘Susanna and the Elders’ is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing allegory. This paper moves away from each reductive extreme by re-examining the story’s history and visual effect. Patricia Simons works on the art of Renaissance Europe (primarily Italy, France and the Netherlands) with a special focus on the representation of gender and sexuality and on interdisciplinary approaches to materiality, visuality and material culture. In groundbreaking publications in both books and major […]

Public Lecture at the University of Melbourne – Ara H. Merjian, The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital

February 29, 2016NewsItalian Art, Lecture, Melbourne

Public Lecture: The Zero Moment of History: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Abstraction, Neocapital will be held Thurday 10 March 6.30pm-7.45pm. Keynote: Ara H. Merjian Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. From the forthcoming book, Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Post-War Art and Politics, 1960-1975 by Ara H. Merjian. Why did Italy’s most prominent counter-cultural figure abjure the post-war avant-garde, even as his work helped to dynamize its activity? Why, for all his own iconoclasm, did Pier Paolo Pasolini – director, poet, critic, and painter – specifically reject the ethos of abstraction? Along with his intermittent critical writings, the films La Rabbia (1963) and Teorema (1968) provide […]

Power Lecture – Professor Alexander Nagel: The Renaissance Elsewhere

February 22, 2016News

The Renaissance Elsewhere Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Thursday, 10 March 2016 6 – 7.30pm Co-presented with Sydney Ideas The Power Institute is proud to present a lecture by Professor Alexander Nagel, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. For his lecture, Professor Nagel turns his attention to Italian art between c. 1300 and c. 1500 – the Renaissance – a period characterised by its extraordinary openness to the world. The Renaissance represented items and ideas not only in direct proximity to artists of the time, but also distant peoples and places known to artists only through […]

Flinders University Special Seminar – Keiji Sawada (Waseda University – Japan)

February 15, 2016News

A special seminar titled ‘Others’ Perspectives of Wars: Perceptions of Japanese Translations of Australian Plays’ Room 154 Social Sciences Room South, Flinders University, Friday 11 March 2016 at 11.15am. From AAANZ Member Tets Kimura Contact: David Lockwood (david.lockwood@flinders.edu.au, 08 8201 3852) Special Seminar – Prof Sawada PDF Flinders University – Event Website and Details

Call for Papers | Conference: ‘Human Kind: Transforming Identity in British and Australian Portraits, 1700-1914’

January 14, 2016NewsCall for Papers, Melbourne, Portraits, Portraiture

Inspired by the outstanding collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, this interdisciplinary conference will be the largest gathering of international and Australian scholars to focus on portraits. It will provide a unique opportunity to explore both British and Australian portraits through a dynamic interchange between academics and curators. September 8-11 2016, University of Melbourne and National Gallery of Victoria Call for papers Papers are invited that focus on British or Australian portraits between 1700 and 1914, which can be interpreted as separate fields or as overlapping or comparative studies. The portraits may be in any public or private collection […]

Report | AAANZ 2015 Conference ‘Image, Space, Body’ Brisbane

December 22, 2015AAANZ Conference, News

The AAANZ 2015 conference was recently held in Brisbane. The conference was a great success and from a participants point-of-view it all ran very smoothly, our thanks to the organisers for doing such a great job. Sessions ranged from Artist’s choreography of the Body en masse to Early Modern Art and Design to Revisionism in Australian art history. The range of topics and speakers (drawn from universities, museums and galleries as well as independent artists and researchers) was an indication of the diverse range of art history, theory and curatorial research being carried out across Australia and New Zealand. You […]

Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 | Call for Papers

July 3, 2015AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers, NewsAAANZ conference 2015, Call for Papers

Deadline: 28th August 2015 The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will be held in Brisbane, Queensland, 24-25 November 2015. The conference venue will be Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) and is hosted by The Brisbane Consortium for Visual Arts (a collaboration between art history/theory departments at The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Queensland College of Art, Griffith University and QAGOMA). Sessions will run for one and a half hours, and will generally include three twenty-minute papers, each followed by ten minutes of questions and discussion. Session convenors will tailor the session to best address the concerns set out in the session […]

Call for Panels | Image Space Body | AAANZ Conference 2015 Brisbane

March 30, 2015AAANZ Conference, Brisbane, NewsAAANZ conference, AAANZ conference 2015, Brisbane, Call for Sessions

The Call for Panels for the AAANZ 2015 Conference in Brisbane is now open. For details of the conference see the conference webpage. Image Space Body After the many ends of art history, we begin again. The conjunction of the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art’s 8th Asia-Pacific Triennial (APT 8) and the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand annual conference presents opportunities to re-examine art history and generate innovative perspectives on histories and cultural traditions. APT 8 prompts us to challenge assumptions and reconsider the relations between images, bodies, and spaces. We invite discussion on traditions and legacies of art practices and of art histories. We […]