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Job | Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor in Art History | Victoria University of Wellington

September 27, 2019Jobs

Applications are invited for the position of Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor in Art History Associate Professor in Art History is within the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies, Victoria University of Wellington. This is a permanent full-time position available from 2020. The successful applicant for the Senior Lecturer | Associate Professor position will have a PhD in Art History or a related discipline, an excellent research profile and extensive teaching experience at tertiary level. The appointee will also be expected to contribute to academic leadership in the Art History Program. The successful applicant will be expected to develop […]

Symposium | Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy | University of Melbourne

September 23, 2019EventsPrints, Symposium, University of Melbourne

A symposium celebrating 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships 30 September – 2 October 2019 This symposium, Prints, Printmaking and Philanthropy, celebrates 50 years of The Harold Wright and The Sarah and William Holmes Scholarships by focussing on three broad themes – print exhibitions, print collections and print presses – and seeks to trace the influence of philanthropy in shaping Australasian print culture. In one of the largest gatherings of print scholars, curators, artists and printmakers ever seen in Australia, a range of topics will be addressed from historical and contemporary perspectives. These include: […]

PhD Scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities | School of Art and Design – ANU

September 18, 2019Funding

Three PhD scholarships in digital design, heritage, visualisation and digital humanities. For full details and to apply visit the website: https://anudesign.com.au/apply/ PhD Scholarship: Mapping travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy $27,596 p/a, 3 years ARC DECRA Project DE190100578 Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy “Travelling objects – art and cultural diplomacy” investigates questions about cross-cultural communication that are raised when many copies of certain art objects—prints or medals—exist in distant lands across the globe. It does so through a study of diplomatic gifts sent from France to other countries in Europe, Asia, and the New World in the […]

Opportunity | EXTENDED DEADLINE | Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at University of Tokyo

September 6, 2019Jobs, News

EXTENDED DEADLINE Applications open for a visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo in 2020-21 and 2021-22 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo EXTENDED DEADLINE: Applications close at 5pm on 1 November 2019 The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo, to promote a deeper understanding of Australia and its regional engagement. The position is supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation. Applications are invited from highly qualified Australians with significant academic or public achievement […]

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue

September 6, 2019ANZJA

ANZJA Current Issue | Vol 19 Issue 1 2019 | Open Issue Edited by Ian McLean Michaela Bear explores the complex production processes, historical precedents and cross-cultural perspectives informing Lisa Reihana’s moving image work in Pursuit of Venus [infected]; Stefan Popescu and Aleksandr Andrews Wansbrough analyse the various media and familial transgressions enacted in Huck Botko’s abject Dessertumentary series; Catherine De Lorenzo situates the art historical importance of Ar_atjara, an exhibition held in Düsseldorf in 1993 of traditional and contemporary Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander art, predominantly initiated and directed by Aboriginal people; Tara McDowell undertakes a spatial and temporal […]

Job | Head of Collections | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

September 6, 2019Jobs

Head of Collections, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Applications close 11 September 2019 For more information click here This is an outstanding opportunity for a specialist to lead the effective management of art collections. Established in 1888, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is a leading visual arts institution in New Zealand with more than 17,500 artworks and over 150 archival collections. The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is the home of art for Auckland, its people and visitors, and a cultural leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Gallery’s purpose is to be a creative catalyst for art and ideas, offering […]

Event | Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities | 12 September, 1pm | Black Box | UNSW Art & Design Box

September 6, 2019Events

Harnessing Energies in the Arts and Humanities 12 September, 1 – 7.30pm Black Box, UNSW Art & Design Box D106, cnr Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW Harnessing Energies symposium, 1-5pm Energies in the Arts book launch and performance, 6 – 7.30pm Energies in the Arts, the new collection edited by Professor Douglas Kahn (UNSW Art & Design) and published by MIT Press, explores the pluralistic concepts of energies—scientific, cultural, spiritual, ecological – as they occur in the arts, history and theory. The book will be launched by Joyce Hinterding (Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney), and […]

Event | … in Trouble opens Tuesday 8 October, 5pm, The Boom Gate Gallery

September 6, 2019Events, Exhibition

… in Trouble, an exhibition in partnership with the University of New South Wales, The Big Anxiety Festival opens Tuesday 8th October, 5pm. The exhibition will run until 20 October at The Boom Gate Gallery. For more information click here

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Brisbane Launch Events

August 23, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Brisbane on Saturday 24 and Saturday 31 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue—Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’)—represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance itself, whereas the editors of Más allá del fin refer […]

Event | Discipline Nº 5/Más allá del fin Nº 3 Melbourne Launch Events

August 16, 2019Events

Discipline is pleased to announce a program of events in Melbourne from Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 August to accompany the launch of its fifth volume, a joint issue with the periodical Más allá del fin, published by the feminist research collective Ensayos. The joint issue — Discipline, Más allá del fin (translating to ‘discipline beyond the end’) — represents an effort to map a South–South relationship between Chile and Australia, and even more specifically, between its southernmost island tips: Tierra del Fuego and Tasmania. For centuries, the Northern imagination conceived of these places as the very personification of distance […]