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Applications open for Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies

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Position Description The Committee on Australian Studies at Harvard University seeks to appoint a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies for the 2023-2024 academic year. For history of the chair, see http://harvaus.fas.harvard.edu Incumbents of the Chair will ordinarily hold the title of Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies and be expected to be in residence at Harvard for the full academic year. He or she will be appointed in an appropriate department and will ordinarily teach two courses. Basic Qualifications Doctorate or terminal degree is required. Additional Qualifications Candidates […]

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ANU Humanities Research Centre | Visiting Fellowships Program

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Applications for the 2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program – on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ – are now open. The Humanities Research Centre (HRC) was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the humanities and as a catalyst for innovative humanities scholarship and research within the Australian National University. The HRC interprets the ‘humanities’ generously, recognising that new methods of theoretical enquiry have done much to break down the traditional distinction between the humanities, the creative arts, and the social sciences. It also recognises the importance of establishing a dialogue between the humanities and the […]

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Call for papers and sessions | Digital Intimacies #7: Conflict in My Outlook Symposium | University of Queensland

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December 6 & 7, 2021. On site at The University of Queensland, plus virtual sessions.    Digital Intimacies #7 now invites abstracts, proposals for digital experiments and in-person or virtual sessions. We welcome papers across disciplines and approaches that explore the entanglements between our intimate experiences, feelings, affects, bodies and digital media and technologies. Due 15 August 2021.    The on-campus event will be run in partnership with UQ Art Museum’s Conflict in My Outlook: Don’t Be Evil exhibition. The symposium will conclude with a public keynote lecture by AI ethics scholar Kate Crawford on the subject of her new book Atlas of AI: […]

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Creative Arts Fellowships at the National Library of Australia

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Applications for the 2022 Creative Arts Fellowships at the National Library of Australia are now open, and will close on Monday 26 July 2021 at 1pm (AEST). See the website for full details and application link https://www.nla.gov.au/awards-and-grants/creative-arts-fellowship Guidelines for the 2022 program Creative Arts Fellowships offer $10,000 to support writers and artists to spend four weeks at the National Library researching and developing a new artistic concept, artwork or body of work inspired or informed by the collections.  Two Fellowships are available: Creative Arts Fellowship – using our collections, artists can progress or complete a new artwork or body of work. Artists may be […]

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Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List │ Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson

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Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson was recognised as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours List Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM is an internationally recognised expert on the art and culture of Renaissance and early-modern Venice, and has made fundamental and lasting contributions to the arts and to the public culture of Australia. Among her many achievements, she has curated exhibitions at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and her publications books on Italian art include Giuseppe […]

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Call for papers │ Graphic Landscape │ The British Library

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GRAPHIC LANDSCAPE THE LANDSCAPE PRINT SERIES IN BRITAIN, c. 1775–1850 The Paul Mellon Centre and the British Library 2–11 November 2021 Landscape and topographical print series proliferated in the late eighteenth century and in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Indeed, the format seems to have enjoyed an artistic and commercial boom in this period. The British Museum, the British Library and the Yale Center for British Art hold rich collections of such series, in various formats. Some, like Turner’s Liber Studiorum (1807–19) and Constable’s English Landscape Scenery (1830–33) are extremely well known. Many others, however, have still to receive sustained and critical […]

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Call for Papers │ Conference Utopias of (Non)Knowledge: The Museum as a Research Hub

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Jacques Rancière connects the notion of knowledge with that of ignorance: a person who knows must be aware that they do not know. Rancière’s theory of an ‘ignorant teacher’ problematizes the hierarchical regime of the one-way transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. By criticizing the neoliberal production and commodification of knowledge in this way, he reminds us that the purpose of democracy is to attain equality, and in particular the equality of knowledge. What he offers instead can be described as a modernist model of a ‘knowledge utopia,’ where all citizens are equal and therefore equally involved in practices of (not) knowing. […]

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