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Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium | ANU and Zoom

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Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium at the Australian National University About this event Visualising the Medical Humanities: A Symposium The Centre for Art History and Art Theory in the School of Art and Design at the Australian National University is hosting a one-day symposium devoted to emerging scholarship in the Visual Medical Humanities presented in-person and live online via zoom. Time and Date: 9.00am – 5.00pm Thursday 22 July 2021 In-person Venue: Conference Room 1.02, Sir Rowland Wilson Building, Australian National University An online keynote address Tales of the unbeautiful: The Elephant Man as modern fable by Dr Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck) will be held at […]

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Job | Executive Officer ArtBackNT

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER Artback NT is looking for a dynamic individual to lead one of Australia’s unique and most exciting arts organisations. Artback NT’s Executive Officer is responsible for the successful leadership and management of the organisation. This includes the proper administration of all artistic, financial and business affairs of Artback NT and other duties as required by the Board in accordance with the Artback NT Strategic Plan 2020 – 2024 and Artistic Program. The position is responsible for staff in offices in Darwin, Alice Springs and Borroloola, and teams delivering activities across the Northern Territory, nationally and internationally. This role […]

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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

Call for Papers, Events

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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