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Online Conference | Glass: Vision, Reflection, Imagination

November 14, 2022Conference

Glass: Vision, Reflection, Imagination International conference Date: 15 – 17 November 2022 Website and registration: https://glassvisionreflectionimagination.com/ This year – 2022 – is the United Nations International year of Glass, which has prompted events all over the world. In Australia, there have been exhibitions, festivals, and educational activities – including the upcoming online conference, GLASS: Vision, Reflection, Imagination, co-convened by the Australian Institute for Art History at the University of Melbourne and GLAAS Inc at Melbourne Polytechnic, Prahran. Bringing together over 40 artists, academics and museum professionals from across Australasia and South-East Asia (Region 16 of IYOG2022), this online conference explores and challenges our […]

Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

November 7, 2022Events

The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased to host this extended seminar on colour in Victorian Britain. Through presentations and discussion, colour in Victorian arts, sciences and discourse will be axamined. Join in person and online to hear papers by Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum) and Keren Hammerschlag (ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory), and presentations by early career researchers Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean) and Sarah Hodge (ANU). These will be followed by an open discussion with the presenters and audience about the multiple facets of colour in Victorian Britain. Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in […]

Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall

November 7, 2022Events

The year 2023 will mark 40 years since David R. Marshall was appointed a lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in the Department of Fine Arts. His former PhD students, colleagues and friends are honouring his distinguished legacy with an on-line international symposium and publication. They invite you to join them for two days of papers on new research across the areas of landscape and gardens in Early Modern Italy, the architecture and urbanism of Rome, antiquarianism, visual culture and performance, baroque to neo-baroque, and, Italian painting. Online Festschrift Symposium in Honour of David R. Marshall Saturday […]

Celebrating Emeritus Professor Virginia Spate, 1937-2022

November 7, 2022News

Art History and the Power Institute invite you to a celebration of Virginia Spate’s significant contribution to art history at the University of Sydney and beyond. 10 NOVEMBER 2022 6:00pm – 8:00pm MacLaurin Hall, The Quadrangle University of Sydney, Camperdown Drinks and light finger food will be provided Click here to learn more from Power Institute Director, Mark Ledbury about Virginia’s importance as an art historian, educator, colleague and friend. RSVP HERE Image: Virginia Spate, Professor of Contemporary Art, Sydney University, 30 August 1988, TheSydney Morning Herald. Photographer: Paul Miller, FXB1318390.

AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE │EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE TODAY

October 31, 2022AAANZ Conference

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE TODAY, MONDAY 31 OCTOBER For more information on costs and to register go to AAANZ conference fees and bursaries Panel schedule is now available. You can view the complete schedule of panels and speakers here aaanz22.live The 2022 AAANZ Conference ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ will be held from 1 to 3 December, 2022 and is co-hosted by the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University. Please note that the conference will be online this year, with a number of on-site / in-real-life keynotes that will take place at the National Gallery of Victoria and […]

Symposium │ Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture │18 November

October 31, 2022Events

AAANZ Membership is invited to join Histories of Metallurgy and Metal Material Culture, to be held in-person and online at the Australian National University on Friday 18 November, 2022 (AEST) This symposium hosted by the ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory aims to generate cross-disciplinary dialogue about how we interpret metal in ancient and historical societies. Researchers in history, art history, archaeology, archaeometry, curatorship and creative practice will present papers which adopt diverse approaches to investigating the production, fabrication, meanings and interpretation of metals and metal material culture across chronologies and geographies. Interested colleagues are invited in Australia […]

Book Launch │Bernard Smith’s “European Vision and the South Pacific” (3rd ed.) │ 1 December

October 31, 2022Book

Melbourne University Press and Art+Australia invite AAANZ membership to the launch of the third edition of “European Vision and the South Pacific” by Bernard Smith and edited by Sheridan Palmer Date and time Thursday 1 December 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm (AEDT) Location The Reading Room, Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier Street, Fitzroy, VIC Click here for the invitation RSVP essential you can do so here From Australia’s greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of the Australian classic. Featuring a new introduction by Sheridan Palmer and Greg Lehman situates the book in a […]

AAANZ 2022 CONFERENCE │EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE MONDAY 31 OCTOBER

October 24, 2022AAANZ Conference

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATIONS CLOSE MONDAY 31 OCTOBER For more information on costs and to register go to AAANZ conference fees and bursaries Panel schedule is now available. You can view the complete schedule of panels and speakers here aaanz22.live The 2022 AAANZ Conference ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’ will be held from 1 to 3 December, 2022 and is co-hosted by the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne and the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University. Please note that the conference will be online this year, with a number of on-site / in-real-life keynotes that will take place at the National Gallery of Victoria and Monash […]

Opportunity │ POWERHOUSE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2023

October 24, 2022Opportunity

The Powerhouse is seeking participants with proposals that address the museum’s four strategic ambitions: curiosity, creativity, collaboration and sustainability, in addition to one of the key research areas of: agriculture and food; architecture and built environment; Asian and Pacific arts and culture; biotechnologies; computation and digital technologies; decorative arts and design; energy and climate science; engineering; fashion and dress; First Nations; health, medicine and wellbeing; mathematics and measurement; media and communication technologies; music, sound and performance; physical sciences; product and digital design; social history; space and astronomy; transport; and visual communication. Research Fellowship Call for 2023. More Information here. Closing […]

Job │ Assistant Research Coordinator │ Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences

October 24, 2022Jobs

Assistant Research Coordinator Organisation / Entity: Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Job category: Research and Analysis | Research Job location: Sydney Region / Sydney – North/North West Job reference number: 000097PP Work type: Full-Time Number of positions: 1 Total remuneration package: $93,065. Package includes salary ($75,992 – $83,211), employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading. Contact: Deborah Lawler-Dormer Contact email: deborah.lawler-dormer@maas.museum Closing date: 30/10/2022 – 11:59 PM Assistant Research Coordinator Fulltime, Temporary (up to 4 years) Powerhouse Museum, Grade 3/4 The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences sits at the intersection of art, design, science and technology and […]