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Call for Abstracts | Special Issue of Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion Men’s Fashion in the Age of AIDS Editors: Jonathan Kaplan and Peter McNeil Abstracts due for review: 30 July 2022 Authors notified of decisions: 30 August 2022 Completed articles due: 30 September 2022 Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion under its incoming editors Dr Jonathan Kaplan (Sydney Jewish Museum and UTS) and Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil (UTS) place a call for papers for a Special Issue ‘Men’s Fashion in the Age of AIDS’. As the world reels from the coronavirus, we remember AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), a virus first ‘identified’ in 1981 (but […]

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Call for Proposals | Perspective: news in art history

Call for Papers

The journal Perspective: news in art history will explore, in its 2022 – 2 issue , the history and historiography of Fashion(s) Exploring fashion as a plural phenomenon that manifests itself in objects and images, influences artistic practices and maintains close ties with their history means understanding the formation of a body of fashion literature within the history of art. It also means attempting to grasp what art history has to gain from addressing this omnipresent yet unresolved subject that questions the discipline’s borders and hierarchies. Two complementary definitions of fashion emerge and these underlie the two approaches that this issue of Perspective seeks to develop: the […]

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Invitation to join the Editorial Board | Design and Art of Australia Online

General

Design and Art of Australia Online Editorial Board  Since its first launch in the early years of this century, Design and Art of Australia Online (DAAO) has been an essential research tool for Australian art history as well as for those researching the humanities in Australia. Its initial strength came from its incorporation of works by Joan Kerr (Dictionary of Australian Art,  Heritage: The National Women’s Art Book, Black & White Artists) and Vivien Johnson (Western Desert Artists: A Biographical Dictionary and Storylines). Other researchers have added further artists and curators, but there are significant gaps, especially with recent artists. The DAAO has […]

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Call for Panels | 2022 AAANZ Conference | Deadline Friday 29 April

AAANZ Conference

2022 AAANZ Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’. For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive our […]

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Call for Panels | 2022 AAANZ Conference | Deadline 29 April

AAANZ Conference, Conference

2022 AAANZ Conference | DEMONSTRATIONS Monash University and The University of Melbourne 1 – 3 December 2022 AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS’. For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy in relation to Indigenous land rights, the global pandemic, climate crisis, and social injustice. For others it might provoke questioning of traditional demonstrations of art history: the exhibition, the catalogue, the curator, and physical artworks. For yet others it may evoke the idea of thinking through making and its connection to conceiving artistic practice as research. How might we re-conceive our […]

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Call for Proposals │ EARLY CAREER PUBLISHING PROGRAM │Deadline Friday 22 April

Book, Funding, News, Publication

AAANZ is calling for proposals for book publications from recently submitted doctorates in the fields of art history, art theory, art curatorship or art practice. This initiative has been developed by AAANZ in association with publishing house Taylor & Francis, with the intention of publishing a series of three monographs. The series will be divided into two rounds with proposals for the first two monographs selected in the first round in 2022. A Committee comprising of senior and early career art historians will select two recently completed PhD theses to be revised and published within the next two to three […]

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2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship

Funding

The ANU Art Collection brings together outstanding Australian modern and contemporary art, including a remarkable diversity of artwork by Australia’s First Nations Peoples. Through its heritage-listed Drill Hall Gallery, ANU delivers a vibrant exhibition program in collaboration with emerging and established artists, curators and collectors. The 2022 ANU Art Collection Scholarship is supported by Andrew Dyer & Donna-Marie Kelly The Gallery presents exhibitions drawn from the ANU Art Collection, as well as diverse national and international loans. Internship students, under the supervision of leading academics from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), make a vital contribution to […]

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New Zealand Pavilion announces further details of Yuki Kihara’s exhibition for Biennale Arte 2022

Exhibition

Yuki Kihara is the first artist to represent New Zealand at the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia who is Pasifika, Asian and Fa’afafine (Sāmoa’s third gender) Kihara’s project Paradise Camp, explores ongoing Sāmoa-New Zealand relations from a Fa’afafine perspective and will be shown in the Arsenale Ahead of the Biennale Arte 2022 opening on 23 April, Creative New Zealand announces further details of the New Zealand Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Small island ecologies, queer rights, intersectionality and decolonisation are all explored by artist Yuki Kihara in her Biennale Arte […]

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Submissions Open │ Hunar Symposia Conference: An exploration of art and conflict

Call for Papers

Submissions are now open for Hunar Symposia’s inaugural conference on 16 -18 November 2022  Hunar believes that art, in all its forms, functions in a similar way, serving as a bridge between our utopic desires and the concrete possibilities for change. In this sense, it makes visible what has been deemed invisible, and speakable what has been deemed unspeakable, opening new paths to understand and overcome our social and political challenges. Hunar seeks to foreground the importance of creative work in producing imaginative, humorous, provocative, and unpredictable responses to conflicts both past and present. In this context, we challenge researchers […]

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