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Call for expressions of interest | Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else

Call for Writers

Call for expressions of interest (open to 10 January 2026): Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else Kia ora everyone, I am planning an edited book – Constructive Alcohol – production, consumption, everything else (working title). I have a couple of international publishers interested and I am looking for contributions from a wide array disciplines and across a diversity of societies and fields – Global South, Global North, Transnational, Global. The book will be a response to Mary Douglas’ ground-breaking work Constructive Drinking (1987). Published nearly 40 years ago, Constructive Drinking continues to be a touchstone for research that foundationally […]

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Job | Curatorial Assistant at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Jobs

Curatorial Assistant | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Description:  Gain experience working in Aotearoa’s leading visual arts organisation Play a support role in Auckland Art Gallery’s dynamic and talented Curatorial team Candidate will start work in mid to late January 2026 Part-time administrative support role to the Head of Curatorial and Learning at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He angitūtanga: The opportunity Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. Our purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering transformational experiences that strengthen and enrich our communities. The […]

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Call for submissions | NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa | Finland

Call for Papers

First announcement and Call for submissions: NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7 2026 Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers, arts-based approaches, workshops, tutorials, demos, late-breaking work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI´26 are now available at the conference website: https://nordichi2026.org/ The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for human-computer interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global community of researchers and practitioners, including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University and University of Vaasa. The conference theme […]

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ARC Grant success for Art History, Curatorial and Practice-led research

News

Congratulations to a range of AAANZ members and colleagues in art history, curatorial, conservation studies and practice-led research who had success in the recent ARC grants program (and commisserations to all who missed out). Please let us know if we missed anyone: Dr David Rousell; Dr Eve Mayes; Dr Kelly Hussey-Smith; Professor Julianne Moss; Dr Gideon Boadu; Dr Merinda Kelly; Dr Simon Soon from the Art History program – University of Melbourne: Making histories: Young people as visual historians of changing cities . This project aims to address the growing gap between young people’s experiences of urban change and authorised […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Sunday 2 November

AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | EARLY-BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline Friday 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline Friday 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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AAANZ 2025 Conference: Unruly Objects | EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION CLOSES Sunday 26 October

AAANZ Conference

2025 AAANZ CONFERENCE: UNRULY OBJECT | REGISTRATION Wednesday 3 to Friday 5 December 2025, University of Western Australia, Perth Hosted by The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The Berndt Museum, and the UWA School of Design, and supported by the Institute of Advanced Studies. The 2025 conference looks at the uncontrollable, excessive, surplus and unruly qualities of objects that we attempt to study, curate, discipline and subject to discourse. Thinking beyond simply the agency of objects, we turn specifically to their rowdy, disruptive, and ungovernable aspects – whether they be leaking out of unwieldy collections, unexhibitable or unthinkable, fugitive or lost, or […]

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AIAH EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARDS 2025 | Deadline 31 October

Grants

In 2025, the AIAH (Australian Institute of Art History) at the University of Melbourne is again collaborating with the AAANZ (Art Association of Australia and New Zealand) to foster new and innovative research and public engagement in art history by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Awards (ECRA) are funded by the Australian Institute of Art History  and administered jointly by AIAH and AAANZ. The awards will support public-facing, collaborative research projects that require a team (defined as at least two people) with varied forms of expertise. There are three requirements at the time of application for the project to be […]

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Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 26.2: Open Issue | Deadline 31 December

ANZJA

Submissions of essays DUE: December 31, 2025.  Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Jaye Early, Dr Shuxia Chen, and Dr Kasia Jezowska. The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, to be published in December 2026. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical debates, frameworks, and methodologies across art history, theory, curating, and practice in and […]

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