Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: the Social Context of Art – Conference Schedule
Next week’s AAANZ conference schedule can be downloaded here: https://aaanz.info/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/AAANZ_Schedule_Final.pdf
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ARC Discovery Projects and the National Interest Test
Congratulations to the following colleagues working in the Research Fields of Art History, Theory and Criticism who were successful in the latest round of ARC applications: Anne Dunlop Discovery Project The University of Melbourne This project aims to bring European and Chinese art history into dialogue. It explores the early Italian Renaissance in the larger geopolitical context of Mongol Eurasia and the Yuan Empire, to address the questions of influence, contact, and exchange. In reframing the development of early European art as a fundamentally cross-cultural phenomenon, this project aims to offer a better understanding of the roots of our […]
Two weeks until AAANZ conference plus two more keynote lectures
2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, will be held at RMIT University Melbourne city campus in just two weeks. With over 70 panels and artist sessions, more than 270 presenters and 5 keynotes held over three days from 5 to 7 December 2018 this year’s conference is not to be missed. Register now to attend: https://aaanz.info/register-for-the-2018-aaanz-conference/ The 2018 AAANZ Conference Committee are delighted to announce the keynote lectures Gabi Ngcobo and Ema Tavola will present at this years conference: Addressing History in the Present Gabi Ngcobo, curator of the 10th Berlin Biennale. The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art […]
Book Launch: An Act of Showing – West Space – December 4, 6pm
Please join the editors for the launch of their new book An Act of Showing: rethinking artist-run initiatives through place co-edited by Maria Miranda and Anabelle Lacroix. The book will be launched by Esther Anatolitis, Executive Director of the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA). Tuesday 4 December at 6pm West Space Level 1/225 Bourke St, Melbourne The book features newly commissioned essays by Paola Balla, Kirsten Lyttle and Dominic Redfern, and includes Chris Kraus’s essay “Kelly Lake Store” as well as creative contributions by ARIs in Australia and the Asia-Pacific on their relationship to place, and more… The book is designed by […]
RMIT University and Arts at CERN: PhD Scholarship in curatorial practice
RMIT University School of Art and the Arts at CERN program at the European Organization for Nuclear Research have announced a PhD curatorial research program and scholarship in trans-disciplinary curatorial practice. This features a full research tuition fee scholarship for 3 years (with possible extension to 3.5 years) with a stipend valued at a minimum of AUD $31,000 per year. To be considered for this PhD program and scholarship you must be an Australian citizen, and prepared to relocate to Geneva, Switzerland from April 2019 for 6 months. Curating art and physics The PhD program is run by RMIT University […]
Australian Institute of Art History: Upcoming Events
Dear friends and supporters, You are warmly invited to attend the following AIAH events being held throughout November and December. With best wishes The Australian Institute of Art History Please follow the link below for details: Upcoming events at the AIAH
University of Queensland Node of the Centre for the History of Emotions (UQ CHE) – Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships
University of Queensland Node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships in English Literature and Art History Semester One, 2019 The University of Queensland (UQ) Node of the Centre for the History of Emotions is inviting expressions of interest for three visiting fellowships, for a period of up to ten weeks, from early career researchers who are Australian nationals or permanent residents. Applicants should possess a PhD awarded within the past five years, and be based within the disciplines of either English Literature or Art History. They should be working on […]
EOIs open for PARASITE: Experimental Arts Laboratory
Expressions of Interest to participate in Parasite: an Experimental Arts Laboratory are now open. The RMIT School of Art and AAANZ have partnered with All Conference and West Space to deliver an experimental art lab for the independent art sector. All Conference is a national organising network comprised of 15 artist-led, experimental and cross-disciplinary arts organisations. West Space will host Parasite to present diverse and innovative ideas that support the practices of living artists in Australia and beyond. Please apply to participate in this diverse and engaging discussion of present issues facing the independent arts sector in Australia. WHEN: 1-5 […]
First Peoples First and The State of Art History: announcing AAANZ keynote lectures
2018 AAANZ Conference is held in less than four weeks. There is still time to register: https://aaanz.info/register-for-the-2018-aaanz-conference/ The 2018 AAANZ Conference Committee are delighted to announce the keynote lectures Genevieve Grieves and Griselda Pollock will present at this years conference, held from 5-7 December at RMIT University, Melbourne. First Peoples First: Decolonising/Indigenising the Arts and Culture Sector Genevieve Grieves, Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria. Throughout Australia, arts and cultural organisations and institutions are attempting to transform their practice and their spaces to acknowledge and redress the trauma and injustice central to the nation’s history and contemporary reality. There […]
Update: The Australian Government’s Attack on the Humanities
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) this week condemned the actions of the former Minister of Education and Training, Simon Birmingham, who in 2017 reversed several research funding decisions made by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Many of the scholarly projects arbitrarily refused funding were in art history, visual culture, and related fields; all were in the humanities. This shameful interference in the rigorous peer-review process of Australia’s most significant humanities funding body shows that the current government has no respect for the important work that our members and subscribers do, whether as humanities researchers, as grant […]
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