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UPDATE or ADD your profile to the DIRECTORY OF ART HISTORIANS AND ART RESEARCHERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION

November 29, 2021Resources

DIRECTORY OF ART HISTORIANS AND ART RESEARCHERS IN THE ASIA PACIFIC REGION Art historians and art researchers practicing in the Asia Pacific Region region are producing significant and innovative research which is of great interest to scholars and to relevant industry sectors including museums and galleries. The Directory of Art Historians and Art Researchers in the Asia Pacific Region enables research, expertise, and contact details for these historians and researchers to be found quickly and easily. The Directory is a searchable database of experts – academics, researchers, teachers, writers, editors, curators, and museum professionals – specialising in art, architecture, and visual culture from all […]

Job | Senior Curator The University of Queensland

November 22, 2021Jobs

UQ Art Museum HEW 8 Fixed-term position until January 2024 Applications Close 10th January 2022 (R-01022) More information: https://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcareers/job/St-Lucia-Campus/Senior-Curator_R-01022-1 More than a senior curator, this role will be involved across the program design, stimulating institutional debate, and contributing to teaching and learning. This newly created role will be an important contributor to our evolution as a cultural institution, and is well-aligned to key priorities from the UQ Reconciliation Action Plan, including: embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander curriculum and inclusive teaching practices in programs; developing UQ’s research systems to ensure ethical and culturally appropriate research and engagement with Aboriginal and […]

AAANZ Research in Focus Prize | Entries CLOSE Thursday 18 November

November 15, 2021Prizes

Entries are currently open for the 2021 Research in Focus Prize for PhDs and ECRs AAANZ is pleased to offer an opportunity for current and recently-completed PhD students to share their research and be considered for the $1,000 prize supported by Taylor and Francis. The Research in Focus Prize first ran in 2020. The winner and shortlist can be viewed here: Research in Focus Winner and Highly Commended 2020 The Prize will be announced along with the AWAPAs in December at the 2021 AAANZ Conference, hosted by the University Of Sydney. About the Prize This is an opportunity to reach […]

Website for AAANZ 2021 ‘IMPACT’ now live

November 8, 2021AAANZ ConferenceConference

AAANZ21 Website Now Live! We’re pleased to announce that the website for the AAANZ’s first ever fully online conference is now ready for you to explore! This website contains the full conference program, including session times, and all speaker paper abstracts and bios. On the days of the conference, 8-10 December, this site will also be where those who have registered can access all the conference’s live Zoom panels, keynotes and other events. If you haven’t yet registered, you can do so here. If you have, we encourage you to have a browse, and start planning your own path through our rich […]

CALL FOR PAPERS | Globalising the Avant-Garde | 8th Conference of the European Network

November 8, 2021Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS: Globalising the Avant-Garde The 8th Conference of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) Lisbon, NOVA FCSH, 1-3 September 2022 The conference will reflect on the process of the globalisation of avant-gardes in the arts and literature, and on the situation of artistic avant-gardes in the context of globalisation more generally – technologically, economically, and politically. We invite papers on topics related to the avant-garde across all of the arts. From the point of view of the arts, artists and writers have promoted, through their travel and networking, cultural interchanges and transformations that often appear to challenge […]

Call for Writer’s | Artlink Magazine | Closes 25 November

November 8, 2021Jobs

Artlink magazine is calling for writer’s proposals for the April 2022 issue, Art/Write. The genre of contemporary art writing (and reading) constitutes a vast uneven meta-field of multiple agendas and formats, from scholarly informed art history to provocative criticism and short-form social media. This issue invites proposals from art writers across all disciplinary areas, backgrounds and generations. Using Artlink’s 40-year archive (1981-2021) as a stimulant, we welcome ideas that engage with critical, curatorial and historical writing, visual essays, speculative prose and experimental texts. Priority will be given to proposals that support creative producers from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific. […]

Deadlines extended – AIAH fellowships and Research in Focus Prize

November 5, 2021Funding, Prizes

Due to the ongoing challenges of 2021, we have extended the deadlines for the AIAH Art History Research Grants and the Research in Focus Prize. The AIAH Art History Research Grants are now due Thursday 11 November More information: https://aaanz.info/aiah-art-history-research-grants-2021/ Entries for the Research in Focus Prize are now due Thursday 18 November More information: https://aaanz.info/prizes/research-in-focus-prize-2021/

Job | LECTURER IN ART HISTORY AND CURATORSHIP | University of Melbourne

November 1, 2021Jobs

The School of Culture and Communication’s Art History and Art Curatorship Program is seeking to make a Fixed term 3-year appointment for a Level B Lecturer in Art History and Art Curatorship. We are seeking an energetic and committed individual who is able to complement and diversify the Program’s teaching and research with particular emphasis on our long-established leadership in Art Curatorial Studies. Applications close: 25 Nov 2021 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time Find out more here

Call for Papers | Obscurités | Darkness, Perspective, n° 2023 – 1

November 1, 2021Call for Papers

The journal Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art will devote its n ° 2023 – 1 to the question of obscurity in its multiple meanings – shadow, darkness, non-knowledge, negativity . A discipline based on the study of the visible, art history is necessarily interested in what is brought to light and can be seen. However, the opposition between light and shadow, in its physical evidence as well as in its symbolic scope, structures human thought to a large extent. Many primordial myths associate the appearance of light and the banishment of darkness with the evolution of life and societies. Likewise, subsequent developments in philosophy and […]

Emerging Scholars Program | The Necessity of Australian Art History Now | APPLICATIONS CLOSE Sunday 7 November

November 1, 2021Professional Development

As part of the AAANZ 2021 Conference IMPACT an Emerging Scholars Program is being introduced The Necessity of Australian Art History Now This is a new and exciting research intensive for postgraduate and early career scholars working in the field of Australian art history. Participants will have the opportunity to receive focused feedback on their own work from an invited audience comprised of their fellow workshop participants, alongside a panel of esteemed leaders in the field of Australian art history: Ann Stephen (co-author of ‘The Necessity of Australian Art’), Ian McLean and Greg Lehman. Applications CLOSE on 7 November For more […]