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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline extended to Friday 6 March

February 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 […]

Call for Expressions of Interest in Editing ANZJA 2026-2028

January 27, 2026ANZJA

AAANZ is calling for expressions of interest from new editors for the Australian New Zealand Journal of Art for a three year term from 2026-2028. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is the regions principal refereed art history journal. The Journal is dedicated to the study of art history broadly conceived, including art practice, art theory and art curatorship and exhibition development. From 2026 we are proposing a new model for editing the journal with a team of editors, rather than a single editor in chief. The new committee would be invited to help shape the roles and […]

Call for Papers | SAHANZ Conference and Journal

January 20, 2026Call for PapersCall for Papers, SAHANZ

The Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand has calls for papers open for its 2026 conference, and two upcoming issue of its journal Fabrications. 2026 SAHANZ-AUHPH Conference: Absence: Call for Abstracts Abstracts for SAHANZ-AUHPH 2026, “Absence,” being hosted by the University of Melbourne from 7 to 9 December, are due in by Friday 27 February. Abstracts of 300 words are invited for 20-minute, 3000-4500 word conference papers that engage with the theme of absence as it relates to architectural history. Papers will be fully refereed for presentation, with the option to be published in the conference proceedings. […]

Book | Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable

January 19, 2026Publication

Melbourne University Press has just published in the early New Year a book, entitled: ‘Giorgione, Dante and the Sydney Incunable’, edited by Jaynie Anderson and John Gagne, a collaboration between the Vatican conservation department, the Monash synchreton, and the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, about the recent discovery of a drawing by Giorgione in the Sydney University Library. It may be ordered on AMAZON or MUP.

Essays and Film Excerpts | Exploring Art History

January 19, 2026Film

Ideas Roadshow has recently started a new substack called EXPLORING ART HISTORY to highlight their focus on the captivatingly beautiful world of art and the art of beauty. There are already quite a few essays on art history while the launch of a new video podcast with the same name featuring art historians and other art experts will be in March 2026. Visit here for art essays, film excerpts and more: https://ideasroadshow.substack.com/.

Event | Names in the Margins: Women’s Stories Rediscovered Through Melbourne’s Ghost Signs

January 19, 2026Events

Names in the Margins: Women’s Stories Rediscovered Through Melbourne’s Ghost Signs Behind Melbourne’s fading advertisements lie stories that were never meant to survive. In this talk, author and historian Sean Reynolds uncovers the hidden lives of women revealed through his Melbourne Ghost Signs research – stories found not only on walls, but in rate books, police files, directories, inquests, and the deep holdings of PROV – Victoria’s State Archives. From motor-garage pioneers and migrant shopkeepers to reinvention artists and women mis-recorded or misunderstood by history, Sean traces how small archival fragments can illuminate extraordinary lives. A lively journey through the […]

Call for Papers | 2026 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium

January 12, 2026Call for Papers

Abstracts deadline January 31st We are delighted to announce the eighth annual SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. This entirely virtual event will take place over Zoom from April 8-12, 2026. Undergraduate students are invited to submit abstracts for a 10-minute talk on any art historical topic of their choosing. We welcome research informed by any and all theories and methodologies and encourage interdisciplinary exploration. Submissions may include a version or part of an undergraduate thesis, an exceptional course paper, or independent research. Please send your title and abstract of no more than 300 words to Professor Keely Heuer […]

Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025

December 24, 2025AWAPA, News

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. Congratulations to the winners and highly commended of the AWAPAs for 2025. BEST BOOK Sponsored by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA Judges Emeritus Sasha Grishin AM FAHA and Dr Nicholas Croggon […]

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 AIAH Early Career Research Awards

December 24, 2025Grants, News

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne collaborated with AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. Two grants were awarded to the value of $10,000. GRANT RECIPIENT $10,000 funded by the Australian Institute of Art History Louise Rollman and Isabel Rousset, ‘Translating the Vienna School: Dr Gertrude Langer in Australia’s Asia-Pacific context’ Project Summary This research examines how Western models of global art history proposed by the Vienna School were applied by Viennese-born Australian art historian […]

Congratulations to the winner and shortlisted entries for the 2025 AAANZ PhD Prize: Research-based

December 24, 2025News, Prizes

The AAANZ PhD prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation of a recently graduated PhD student The prize alternates yearly between research-based and practice-led. In 2025 the PhD Prize was open to research-based PhD entries, there were 26 entries of which, four were shortlisted. WINNER $1000 sponsored by Taylor and Francis Amelia Birch, ‘In a Paris studio: the transformative partnership of Agnes Goodsir and Rachel Dunn’, (University of Western Australia) Abstract At the start of the twentieth century there was a mass exodus of Australian female artists travelling abroad to further theirartistic […]