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Protesting the Removal of Art History from the New Zealand Secondary School Curriculum

September 25, 2025AdvocacyAdvocacy

AAANZ has added its voice to the protests against the proposed removal of art history from the New Zealand School Curriculum. The AAANZ President Katrina Grant and Aotearoa New Zealand representatives Raymond Spiteri, Linda Tyler and Caroline Vercoe have written to Minister Erica Stanford protesting this proposal: Letter regarding proposed removal of art history in NZ schools We write as representatives of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, an organisation that represents hundreds of professional art historians, curators, artists and writers across both Australia and New Zealand. As an organisation we are deeply concerned at the announcement that […]

AAANZ 2025 conference: Unruly Objects | Early bird registration open

September 22, 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 PHD PRIZE: RESEARCH-BASED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 | DEADLINE 26 SEPTEMBER

September 22, 2025Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated research-based PhD students to enter the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize. The $1,000 prize is supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The 2024 AAANZ PhD Prize was practice-led but the eligible period remained 12 months for that year only (due to practice-led eligibility in […]

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

September 22, 2025AAANZ Conference, 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 […]

AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline 31 October

September 22, 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 […]

Symposium | Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts: Ocean and River Currents of Relational Wellness

September 22, 2025News

Symposium | Reimagining the Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts: Ocean and River Currents of Relational Wellness When: Thu, 23 Oct, 10am – 7pm AEDT Where: Lotus Hall (Auditorium), Australian Centre on China in the World Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/reimagining-the-humanities-through-indigenous-creative-arts-ocean-and-river-currents-of-relational-wellness Event description: How do we maintain ethical relations in the face of a huge range of local, national, regional and global challenges? What do our communities, ancestors and the earth teach us in the present? How do Indigenous peoples maintain networks of knowledge sharing for individual and collective wellbeing? We live in times of national and global attacks on the humanities and higher […]

Books | WAKEFIELD PRESS NEW TITLES

September 22, 2025Book

New Releases November/December 2025 Click to download the Wakefield Press FULL NEW RELEASES FLYER for November/December 2025, or contact us for more information, to request reading copies or events with our authors. WAKEFIELD PRESS NEW TITLES Historical / Literary Fiction Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens ISBN 9781923388208 / October 2025 1836. At the edge of empire, a woman arrives to claim her past. And her future. Clarissa FitzRoy, a spirited woman of mixed heritage, has crossed oceans to confront Colonel William Light, the Surveyor-General of South Australia. Bound by a shared history of dispossession by the British East India Company and haunted […]

AAH 2025 Symposium | The Humanities & Creative Practice

September 22, 2025Conference, Events

Audiences for creative practice formats, from the arts to gaming have never been greater. The Australian Academy of the Humanities Symposium, The Humanities and Creative Practice, will turn a lens on the vital role of creative practice in Australian social, cultural, and economic life.. Speakers include composer Felicity Wilcox, Powerhouse CEO Lisa Havilah, award-winning designer Prof Alison Page, Dalisa Pigram and Rachael Swain from Marrugeku, art historian Susan Best & theatre director Julian Meyrick, this is a not-to-be-missed event for anyone working across arts, policy, or cultural industries. When: 13-14 November 2025 Where: UTS Sydney View the program: https://humanities.org.au/events/symposium-humanities-creative-practice-2025/ This event is perfect for academics, […]

Survey | Mapping the Cultural and Creative Data Sector in Australia

September 22, 2025General

Mapping the Cultural and Creative Data Sector in Australia The Australian Creative Histories & Futures (ACHF) Project, a four-year research infrastructure project led by UNSW with partners ARDC, Flinders University, Creative Australia and ACMI, has launched a survey – Mapping the Cultural and Creative Data Sector in Australia. The survey aims to capture important information about how arts researchers and cultural workers create and use data associated with the arts, as well as the digital platforms that manage it. Artists, researchers, data curators and collectors from the GLAM and arts sector are invited to share their insights. The survey will take approximately […]

Journal | Queries #3: Has Beens

September 22, 2025Journal

Queries Issue #3 (September 2025): Has Beens Academic writing old and new, by or about Australian artists identifying as gay, lesbian or queer download >> Ted Gott: Don’t Leave Me This Way; Daniel Glover remembers David McDiarmid; Leigh Raymond farewells Richard Harding; Paul Foss on Keith Boadwee’s LA retrospective; and, Maurice O’Riordan on the late Andrew Ewing. Join mailing list or contact: queriesjournal@gmail.com