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First Peoples First and The State of Art History: announcing AAANZ keynote lectures

November 8, 2018News

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

November 2, 2018Advocacy

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 […]

Archbishop Goold and the Invention of Melbourne – Newman College – 8 November 2018

November 1, 2018Conference

Aboriginal Art and Knowledge Engagement – Trinity College, University of Melbourne – 25 November 2018

November 1, 2018Conference

The free one-day symposium Aboriginal Art and Knowledge Engagement will examine the central role Australian Aboriginal artistic practice plays in the exchange of ideas, especially in teaching and cultural learning. Keynote presenter Dr Henry Skerritt from the University of Virginia will be joined by colleagues from the University of Melbourne, Aboriginal art communities, conservators and the commercial gallery sector, to explore this fascinating subject. The Aboriginal Art and Knowledge Engagement symposium will be held in the Gateway Building, Trinity College, at the University of Melbourne, on Sunday, 25 November, between 9.30am-5.00pm, following by networking drinks. https://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/artsymposium2018

AAANZ statement on the interference in the ARC peer review process

October 31, 2018Advocacy

Statement from president Anthony White on behalf of the AAANZ: The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) condemns in the strongest terms the actions of the former Minister of Education of Training, Simon Birmingham, who in 2017 arbitrarily reversed several grant awarding decisions made by the Australian Research Council (ARC). As has been recently reported in Senate Estimates and in the media, the then Minister intervened in the grant awarding process by going against the expertise and decision-making of the ARC and disallowed a number of grants in the humanities, several of which were in the field of […]

Lecturer – Contemporary Art (Sculpture) – ANU

October 29, 2018Jobs, News

The ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D) is focused on achieving excellence in research and teaching in accordance with its position within the Australian National University (ANU), an outstanding, research-intensive institution ranked among the great universities of the world. The SOA&D is a supportive and transdisciplinary research and teaching community that prioritises the artistic practices and research of its academic staff, and the development and delivery of rigorous undergraduate and graduate art education and supervision. The successful candidate will contribute to this ecology with their experimental and high profile artistic research and through excellence in teaching, and will have […]

CFP: The Values of Architecture and the Economy of Culture (Brisbane, Australia, 13-15 June 2019)

October 29, 2018Conference

The Values of Architecture and the Economy of Culture Abstract Deadline: 26 November 2018 Architecture has always been found in a space between its monetary and cultural values, but the rise of the concept of the cultural economy asks new questions as to how these values of architecture intersect and affect one another. Discussions of the cultural economy tend to deal with architecture and urban design as the infrastructure of culture, asking questions such as: what building types and land values enable a vibrant popular music culture; or, what landmark cultural flagships drive cultural tourism and city branding. Architecture itself […]

CIHA 2019 – Motion:Transformation (September 1-6, 2019)

October 22, 2018News

The CIHA Italia Committee is working hard to organise the Florentine venue of the 35th CIHA World Congress Motion: Transformation (September 1st – 6th, 2019). We are pleased to present you the Chairs list that has been published at the following link: http://www.ciha-italia.it/ciha-florence-2019/chairs/. Moreover, the Call for Papers is going to be launched on October 31st . Recalling the wonderful experience at the Melbourne Congress in 2008, the CIHA Italia Committee and Marzia Faietti in particular, invites you to join the Florence Congress Motion: Transformation.

Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History and Curatorship – ANU

October 22, 2018Jobs

The ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D) is focused on achieving excellence in research and teaching in accordance with its position within Australia’s highly ranked university. The School is seeking to employ a Professor of Art History and Curatorship who will have a leadership role as Director of the Centre for Art History and Art Theory (CAHAT) working actively with disciplines in the School of Art & Design. This position is aligned with the Sir William Dobell Chair, a prestigious Chair supported for over 30 years by the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation in memory of the Archibald prize-winning […]

Lecturer – Art History and Curatorship – University of Melbourne

October 18, 2018Jobs

The School of Culture and Communication’s Art History and Art Curatorship Program is seeking to appoint a Level B Lecturer in Art History and Art Curatorship. We are seeking an energetic and committed individual who is able to contribute to the Program’s teaching and research with particular emphasis on the Program’s long-established leadership in the field of Art Curatorial Studies. Applicants will be expected to have a PhD and research and publication profile in Art History and Art Curatorship, with a particular specialisation in an area of art museum/curatorial studies. It is envisaged that you will have some experience in […]