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AAANZ Vote for Art Campaign │ Letter to The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, Shadow Minister for Education

Advocacy

Dr. Wendy Garden, President of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand wrote to The Hon. Tanya Plibersek MP, Shadow Minister for Education to urge the Albanese Labor Government to reverse the discriminatory decision made by the Liberal government in 2020 to increase university fees for humanities students by 113%. This inherently unfair and short-sighted decision reduced the affordability of university education for many young people in Australia. The decision did not recognise arts an important career path for many Australians from diverse backgrounds and our current art sector is thriving as a result of this diversity. However already […]

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Call for Panels | 2022 AAANZ Conference | Deadline Deadline Extended to 9 May

AAANZ Conference, Call for Papers

The deadline for the Call for Panels for the 2022 AAANZ Conference ‘Demonstrations’ has been extended and submissions will be open until midnight Monday 9 May. Propose a Panel! The Melbourne Conference Committee invites proposals for panels for the AAANZ conference, to be hosted by Monash University, and The University of Melbourne, 1 – 3 December 2022. Key details All proposals are due by midnight, Monday, 9 May 2022. Submit your applications here: Call for Panels Submission Form Conference Theme: Demonstrations  The AAANZ Annual Conference for 2022 is prompted by the idea of ‘DEMONSTRATIONS.’ For some this might raise the idea of political advocacy […]

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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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