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Call for Papers: ‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

‘A difficult and intricate history’: Reckoning with the legacies of colonial material collections in Aotearoa New Zealand Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland June 25-26, 2026 Recent years have seen growing scholarly and public interest in the role of colonial conflict (e.g. ‘the New Zealand Wars’) in defining New Zealand settler society and underpinning the social and economic disenfranchisement of iwi Māori. As part of this shift, collecting institutions have initiated projects that have begun to reckon with their colonial inheritance, notably A Different Light: Early Colonial Photography in Aotearoa New Zealand based on the collections of the Auckland Museum, Alexander Turnbull […]

Announcement for Seoul National University Visiting Professor in Australian Studies for 2027 – APPLICATIONS OPEN

March 9, 2026Jobs, Opportunity

Applications are now open for the Australia-Korea Foundation Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at Seoul National University (SNU) for 2027. 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 February 2027 at SNU. The position aims to support innovative research collaborations and promote mutual understanding of Australia and Korea’s history, cultural heritage and modern outlook. Full details of the position and application requirements can be found in the Position Description. Any queries about the application process should be directed to InASA President, Professor […]

ABC launches applications for 2026 TOP 5 media residencies

March 9, 2026Opportunity, Residency

ABC Radio National is searching for Australia’s next generation of inspiring research communicators, to take part in this year’s ABC TOP 5 media residencies. ABC is pleased to let you know that applications for the 2026 ABC TOP 5 media residencies have been launched by ABC Chair Kim Williams and 2025 TOP 5 alumnus and now ABC Classic presenter Lolita Emmanuel (pictured with Arts presenter Ce Benedict). Listen here: ABC Radio National’s Top 5 program launches! – ABC listen ABC is encouraging applications from early career PhD researchers. The three TOP 5 media residencies in Science, Arts & Humanities give15 early career PhD […]

Call for Papers | The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture

March 9, 2026Call for Papers

Call for Papers The Surreal Body as Theatre of the Mind: Women, Surrealism and Contemporary Visual Culture ONLINE SYMPOSIUM Thursday 1 October 2026 Co-organisers: Mimi Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Victoria Souliman (University of Sydney). This symposium invites research and reflection on art history and visual culture studies, as well as perspectives from artists, regarding the legacy of surrealism in contemporary visual culture. The project particularly foregrounds how women creatives working across image-based practices mobilise surrealist-inflected, body-focused strategies to articulate female and queer subjectivities, embodied experience, and alternative modes of seeing, feeling, and being in the world. We encourage contributions […]

AWARD | The Evan Webb Award for Len Lye Research | Now Open

March 2, 2026Award

Now in its third year, this annual award offers NZD$1500 for research related to the New Zealand-born artist Len Lye – his films, sculptures, life and ideas. The award is open to students, recent graduates, and researchers interested in film or the visual arts. This award, offered by the Len Lye Foundation, commemorates the artist Evan Webb (1952-2023) who was a key figure in the research and restoration of the work of Len Lye. The award will be open to any researcher. The sum of NZD$1500 will be given annually to the best original contribution to Lye scholarship from at […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | CLOSE this Friday 6 March

March 2, 2026ANZJA, Call for Papers

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025 Friday 6 March Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) is calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Please submit all essays and other submissions (including visual essays, dialogues, and reflections) via the Taylor and Francis submission portal, adhering to the Journal […]

Petition | Call for a national inquiry into Arts Education and Training in Australia

March 2, 2026Advocacy

The National Advocates for Arts Education (NAAE) has a campaign and petition calling on the federal governments to address the decline in arts education at all levels, see below and read more on their website: https://naae.org.au/news/call-to-action Petition link: https://www.change.org/p/call-for-a-national-inquiry-into-arts-education-and-training-in-australia Based on recent research, the NAAE calls for urgent federal action. You can help alert your local member to this new evidence about the serious decline in arts education at all levels. In the meantime, NAAE has written to relevant Federal Ministers. Through its leadership in initiating research and sustained national advocacy, NAAE has worked for many years to document, highlight […]

Exhibition | Suzann Victor Illuminates Art Basel Hong Kong 2026

February 23, 2026Exhibition

[AU] Suzann Victor’s City Lantern Illuminates Art Basel Hong Kong 2026.docx Gajah Gallery is proud to present Singaporean artist Suzann Victor’s monumental kinetic installation City Lantern at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026. The work will be shown at Booth EN12, Level 3 as part of Encounters, the sector dedicated to large-scale installations, sculptures, and performances. City Lantern is a 3.6-metre-wide kinetic installation in which a ten-meter photographic mural rotates slowly behind a ring of Fresnel lenses. The composition weaves together approximately sixty architectural sites across the region, mapping a visual geography shaped by empire, migration, and modernity. These buildings act as palimpsests, carrying the legacies of war, […]

Nominations for the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards | Deadline Extended to Firday 6 March

February 23, 2026Award

There is still time to nominate for the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards! With a total of 11 individual and project-based awards on offer, don’t miss this opportunity to be recognised in the 2026 Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards. Winners will be announced and showcased at the industry’s night of nights, to be held at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) on Tuesday 28 April 2026. The evening will be hosted by proud Butchulla Mununjhali Woppaburra woman, artist, comedian & playwright Janty Blair. If you know a person or a project that deserves recognition, nominate now! Deadline extended to 5pm, Friday 6 March 2026. It is FREE to nominate. Eligible projects […]

Event | She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History | 25 March

February 23, 2026Events

She Carried On: Women’s Power, Erasure, and Legacy in Victoria’s History brings together Dr Scarlette Nhi Do, Professor Zoë Laidlaw and PhD candidate Kacey Sinclair for a timely conversation about women’s influence in shaping Victoria’s past. From Lady Gladys Nicholls’ overlooked Indian-Australian heritage and activism, to Janet Biddlecombe’s pastoral wealth and philanthropic power rooted in colonial dispossession, to Fanny Finch’s resistance as a woman of colour in gold-rush Victoria, this event interrogates how women’s labour, leadership and legacies are remembered. Together, these historians ask: whose histories endure, whose are erased and how should we reckon with them today? When: 6:00pm -7:15pm Wednesday […]