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2026 AAANZ PhD Prize Practice-led Now Open

Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2026 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 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize was research-based with the eligible period for award of PhD from July 2023 to the prize […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

AAANZ Conference, Call for Creatives, Call for Panels, Call for Papers, First Nations Stream

FIRST NATIONS STREAM: ON COUNTRY NOW OPEN DEADLINE FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER E aku nui, e aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. First Nations Stream: On Country invites Māori, Pacific, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, historians, researchers, curators and knowledge holders to propose papers, workshops, wānaka (discussion forum), or alternative presentations about working on or with ancestral lands/country/whenua. In Te Waipounamu, the earliest marks made by the First Peoples of this island – Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kāi Tahu – continue to act as a rich source of connection, inspiration and inquiry for their descendants. In what ways are Indigenous artists around Te […]

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Call for applications | Sir William Dobell Chair and Fellows scheme

Research Fellowship

Call for applications:  ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair and Fellowship Program for 2027 The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is now inviting applications or the 2027 Sir William Dobell Visiting Chair and Fellowship Program. One Visiting Chair and up to four Visiting Fellowships are available for national and international art historians and curators looking to undertake innovative research and engage with the University’s vibrant academic community. Successful Chair will receive: Up to $15,000 (domestic) and $18,000 (international) towards travel and accommodation in Canberra for 3 to 6 months Up to $20,000 in […]

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Publication Launch | Follow the Plants

Book, Events, Publication

Food Art Research Network and Bioart Society invite you to join us for a lively research assembly to celebrate and activate the newly launched publication Follow the Plants, edited by Madeleine Collie and Yvonne Billimore, and published by Discipline and Onomatopee. Discipline discipline.net.au Follow the Plants onomatopee.net Follow the Plants is an expanded invitation to follow plants through histories, growing seasons, metabolic cycles, literature, art, bodies, archives, and collective ritual. Bringing together artworks, dialogues, roundtables, essays, and scores, the publication offers both examples of and prompts for collective research, tracing the multiple worlds through which plants circulate and generate meaning. The book’s contributions invite us into […]

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Call for Nominations | 2027 Dan David Prize

Prizes

The Dan David Prize is the world’s largest history prize, recognizing up to 9 outstanding early and midcareer scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines each year. Each Dan David Prize winner is awarded $300,000 to acknowledge their achievements and support future work. We are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2027 Dan David Prize are now open with submissions accepted until Oct 13, 2026. Nominees can come from anywhere in the world and work in any field related to the study of the human past, both within academia and outside it. The list of previous winners can be […]

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Symposium | Blur Analysis: Research, visual culture, and the digital, University of Sydney

News

Friday, 14 August 2026 10:00AM – 5:00PM (AEST) Schaeffer Seminar Room, RC Mills Building How are new digital technologies changing research in art and visual culture? How might these changes productively blur ossified patterns of thought, or disciplinary limits? And how might we use these technologies to analyse the blur itself? These questions are central to the Power Institute’s new digital publishing initiative, and its two new digital publications, The Womanifesto Way and Site and Space in Southeast Asia. To launch this new initiative, the Power Institute has assembled a group of scholars to investigate these questions from a range of perspectives–from the history […]

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Lecture | Art History and the Cultural Character of War, University of Sydney

News

Thursday, 13 August 2026 6:30PM – 7:45PM (AEST) Old Geology Lecture Theatre, University of Sydney Professor Paul B. Jaskot Register here: https://www.powerinstitute.org.au/events/art-history-and-cultural-character-war Architecture is essential to the waging of war. To understand why, this talk considers the dynamic relationship between materials, labour, and construction, looking particularly at World War II and the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe. In the 19th and 20th centuries, European architects and engineers experimented with new technologies like cement, which they carried into the Nazi period and developed further during World War II. Exploring this history helps to distil which cultural ideas and values influenced the […]

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ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs close 28 August

AWAPA, Award, Prizes

Recognising the best in art writing and research across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand ENTRIES for the 2026 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN Highlighting the vitality of art writing and publishing in the region, the AWAPAs acknowledge the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the bredth of knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design, celebrating achievements writers make to the field through: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area and impact on scholarly debate in the field Significance of the topic to the […]

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2026 AAANZ PhD Prize Practice-led Now Open

Prizes

AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated practice-led PhD students to enter the 2026 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 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize was research-based with the eligible period for award of PhD from July 2023 to the prize […]

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AAANZ 2026 Conference Haereka | First Nations Stream: On Country | Proposals Close 4 September

AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels, Call for Papers, First Nations Stream

FIRST NATIONS STREAM: ON COUNTRY NOW OPEN DEADLINE FRIDAY 4 SEPTEMBER E aku nui, e aku rahi, tēnā koutou katoa. First Nations Stream: On Country invites Māori, Pacific, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, historians, researchers, curators and knowledge holders to propose papers, workshops, wānaka (discussion forum), or alternative presentations about working on or with ancestral lands/country/whenua. In Te Waipounamu, the earliest marks made by the First Peoples of this island – Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe, and Kāi Tahu – continue to act as a rich source of connection, inspiration and inquiry for their descendants. In what ways are Indigenous artists around Te […]

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