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AAANZ 2025 CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECTS | ANNOUNCEMENT OF KEYNOTES

October 6, 2025AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2025 conference committee are delighted to announce internationally and nationally acclaimed keynotes. Ken Arnold is Director of Medical Museion and Professor in the Department of Public Health at University of Copenhagen (also part of CBMR). This world-class university museum combines innovative public exhibitions and events with adventurous and collaborative research in medical humanities. Until 2022, he was also Head of Cultural Partnerships at Wellcome – the London-based charitable foundation focused on health research. Earlier, he helped lead the establishment of Wellcome Collection and directed its first decade of programming. He regularly writes and speaks on museums – today […]

Event | Art History and Curatorship Seminar | Friday 10 October

October 6, 2025Book, Events

You are invited to a special Art History and Curatorship Seminar discussion to celebrate the release of two new books, on Friday, 10 October, at 10:00 – 11:00 am AEDT, in person and via Zoom. This seminar will comprise a lively discussion based on the publications: Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis, the latest monograph by Claire Farago, and Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made, a new edited volume from Claire Farago, Susan Lowish and Jens Baumgarten. Speakers: Claire Farago, Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jens Baumgarten, Professor of Art History at the Federal […]

Job | Director-General | National Library of Australia

October 6, 2025Jobs

Applications are sought from dedicated and suitably qualified persons for appointment as the Director-General of the National Library of Australia for a term of up to five years. CLOSING DATE: Sunday 26 October 2025 The Director-General is the statutory head of the National Library of Australia, a Corporate Commonwealth Entity established under the National Library Act 1960. The Director-General provides high-level leadership and vision to the Library and is a member of the Library Council, the Accountable Authority of the institution. The National Library is Australia’s largest library, with a collection valued at over $1 billion and a highly engaged […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES

October 6, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION and BURSARIES Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or […]

AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline 31 October

October 6, 2025Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

Notice of General Meeting Monday 13 October 2025

September 29, 2025Membership, News

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand will hold a General Meeting as follows: Date: Monday 13 October 2025 Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (NZST), 1.00 – 2.00 pm (AEST), 11.30 am – 12.30 pm (ACST), 10.00 – 11.00 am (AWST) Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89956811210?from=addon AAANZ requires a quorum for this meeting please register if you are attending here Documents: Agenda Proxy Form Notification of agenda items for actioning: Item: 5 In accordance with Section 24 of the Associations Incorporation Act 1985 (SA) the Art Association of Australia & New Zealand alters its rules to add two additional clauses, 21.6 to section […]

AAANZ 2025 conference: Unruly Objects | Early bird registration open

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or brimming […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference | Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pasifika registration

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference | Low income bursary | Applications close 13 October

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference

AAANZ 2025 Conference | First Nations Open Panel | Submissions due Friday 3 October

September 29, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels, Call for Papers

Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories: First Nations Open Panel Jess, one of the conference organizers for this years conference, themed Unruly Objects, at the University of Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar boodja invites First Nations friends to particpate in an open panel for the conference Unruly Art in the Colony – Sovereign Art Histories. As a Palyku woman and Indigenous Studies academic, Jess would love for this edition to create a real space for First Nations art histories and stories, welcoming feedback and ideas from First Nations friends anytime. Jess can be reached on email jessyca.hutchens@uwa.edu.au or phone 0476 591 […]