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AAANZ PHD PRIZE: RESEARCH-BASED IS NOW OPEN FOR 2025 | DEADLINE 26 SEPTEMBER

August 25, 2025Member News, Prizes

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 […]

Call for Abstracts | ACUADS Conference 2025: Disobedience | 8 September

August 18, 2025Call for Papers

Disobedience ACUADS Conference 2025 Tuesday 2 December (online) Conference Convenors Associate Professor Ionat Zurr, University of Western Australia Associate Professor Katherine Moline, University of New South Wales Associate Professor Spiros Panigirakis, Monash University Disobedience Recent global and local events, directly impacting art and design institutions and cultural practitioners, reflect a growing fear of the power of creative practice. This demonstrates the perception of art and design as a force of disobedience. How University Art and Design Schools respond to such events has the potential to impact society at large. With the rise of global conflicts and populism, many research communities […]

PhD Scholarship in Art History and Theory | 12 September

August 17, 2025Scholarship

Location: Caulfield campus Employment Type: Full-time Duration: 3-year 6-month fixed-term appointment The successful applicant will receive a tax-free stipend of $36,063 per annum full-time rate. Monash University’s Art History and Theory Program in the Department of Fine Art is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity for a candidate to undertake research in Garden and Landscape History. This PhD scholarship is funded to contribute towards Professor Luke Morgan’s Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship Project ‘A Reception History of Landscape Design.’ The project aims to address the problem of how to develop a reception history of designed landscapes. It expects to generate new knowledge in […]

The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History | Applications Open

August 11, 2025Research Fellowship

The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History. Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington is currently inviting applications for The Oroya and Melvin Day Fellowship in New Zealand Art History, funded by the Oroya and Melvin Day Trust. The fellowship is a 4-month full-time position designed for emerging or early-career scholars. The fellowship aims to promote research in Aotearoa New Zealand art history by providing the Fellow with an opportunity to work within an academic environment and teach a course in their specialist topic in New Zealand Art History during a summer trimester (November 2025 to […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE THIS FRIDAY, 8 AUGUST

August 4, 2025AWAPA, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs CLOSE FRIDAY 8 AUGUST The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the […]

Petition to Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy

July 28, 2025AdvocacyAdvocacy

The Australian Historical Association has started a petition calling for the repeal of the Job-Ready Graduates Policy. The petition is addressed to the Parliament of Australia and the AHA are asking for people to support it. From the petition: During the debate over the JRG bill, Labor Senators correctly noted that the peculiar targeting of the humanities and social sciences on the grounds of their graduates not being job-ready was also “wrong”. They noted that these disciplines “offer students robust generalist educations, with strong employment prospects upon completion … [T]he evidence is that, three years after completion, [arts] graduates are […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

July 28, 2025AWAPA, Prizes

Event | Masculinity, Art and Fashion: from Renaissance Europe to Contemporary Australia

July 28, 2025Events

Masculinity, Art and Fashion: from Renaissance Europe to Contemporary Australia Where Harold White Theatrette, University of Melbourne, 757 Swanston Street, Parkville When Friday 1 August Register here Morning Session 9:30 – 12:30 John Gagné, Italian men, French shirts, and the problems of belonging John Gagné is Cassamarca Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney. Sarah A. Bendall, New styles and global novelties: The influence of French and East Indies goods on men’s fashion in the late 17th century Sarah A. Bendall FRHistS is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian Catholic University and was appointed as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society […]

AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | Call for Papers Deadline Extended to 23 July

July 21, 2025AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS are now open. If you would like to speak at the conference, apply to join one of the panels detailed below. To apply, read the instructions, and then submit your proposal form to the relevant panel convenor/s. Call for papers deadline extended: Wednesday to 23 July, 2025 Conference theme | Unruly Objects 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 […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

July 21, 2025AWAPA, Book, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]