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“Talk, The Talk” Lecture – University of Melbourne – Friday 27th April, 5-6.30pm

April 20, 2018Events, News

The “Talk, The Talk” lecture series and Art Curatorship Partnership (ACP) PROJECTS invites you to join Dr. Anthony White, Senior Lecturer at The University of Melbourne and Ms. Sim Luttin, Curator and Gallery Manager at Arts Project, in a discussion on some of the myths and stereotypes that have been applied to the work of Outsider artists. Entitled ‘Outsider Art: Contemporary Considerations’ this topic will include artists who have experienced disability, mental issues and other forms of marginalization over the last 100 years. It will also entail a presentation reflecting on the role of supported studios, focusing on Arts Projects […]

New Journal – CONTENTION

April 9, 2018Call for Papers, News

Contention is dedicated to research on and about social protest and political behaviour. The journal advances essential knowledge on of collective action, social movements, and other forms of social and political contention. By providing a multidisciplinary forum to scholars within and across the social sciences and humanities, it seeks to promote scholarly exchange and knowledge sharing among them. Please visit our website for more information about the journal, and previous issues: www.berghahnjournals.com/contention Contention welcomes all submissions of high quality, including: research articles with novel findings, theoretical and methodological essays, and movement writing, as well as critical reviews, commentaries and book reviews. Contention aims to present original […]

emaj 10 now online

March 29, 2018News

emaj | online journal of art https://emajartjournal.com/ Issue 10 – 2017-2018 features articles by Anna Parlane, Simon Pierse, Alice-Anne Psaltis, Kate Warren, and book reviews by Una Rey and Grace Blakeley-Carroll. This issue focusses on contemporary Australian art and its precursors, with essays on Lynette Wallworth’s immersive media environments, Richard Bell and Emory Douglas’s Burnett Lane mural, a 2012 work by Michael Stevenson, and Alannah Coleman at Bonython’s in 1970. Reviews of Sheridan Palmer’s recent book on Bernard Smith, and David Brooks and Darren Jorgenson’s book on the Wanarn painters are also included in this issue. emaj is a refereed […]

Australian Academy of the Humanities – Grants and Awards deadlines closing soon

March 26, 2018Funding

From the Australian Academy of the Humanities: 2018 Grants and Awards closing soon Every year, we offer a series of prestigious grants and awards that promote excellence in the humanities and support the next generation of scholars and practitioners. Applications close at 5:00pm AEST on 4 April 2018 for the Medal for Excellence in Translation, Max Crawford Medal, Humanities Travelling Fellowships and Publication Subsidy Scheme.

‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April

March 26, 2018Conference, Events

Dear friends & colleagues, I’m pleased to invite you to attend a one-day interdisciplinary symposium, ‘Risk Anything!: Modernist Women between Centre & Periphery’ at UNSW Sydney, Friday 6 April. This symposium brings together papers exploring risk, women and modernist culture, especially research dedicated to women who have traversed the ‘risky’ division between centres of modernism – Britain, Europe, and the United States – and so-called ‘peripheries’. The event will conclude with a public keynote lecture from Associate Professor Natalya Lusty (University of Sydney): ‘From Sexual Abstinence to Hymenectomy: Risk and Failure in Modernist Radical Feminism’. The event is free, but please register […]

Graphic Encounters PhD Stipend, La Trobe University

March 26, 2018Jobs

Graphic Encounters PhD Stipend, La Trobe University The School of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University is offering a PhD Scholarship to an Indigenous student in the area of prints of Aboriginal Australians. The position is funded by La Trobe University as part of the Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality project, receiving ARC Future Fellowship funding. The PhD is a three year full time scholarship, also offered part time. The mid-year scholarship round at La Trobe University (for commencement in October) closes on 1 July 2018. The link is here: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/archaeology-and-history/research/graphic-encounters/phd-scholarship

Call for Papers – Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality

March 26, 2018Conference

Conference Call for Papers: Graphic Encounters: Colonial Prints and the Inscription of Aboriginality Conference 7-9 November 2018 Melbourne, Australia http://www.latrobe.edu.au/archaeology-and-history/research/graphic-encounters/conference

Gallery Curator: Bus Projects, Melbourne

March 22, 2018Jobs

Gallery Curator | Bus Projects Applications due midnight (AEDT) 26 March 2018. The Gallery Curator (0.6 FTE) works collaboratively with the Director and Program Coordinator to develop and implement the annual program of exhibitions, public programs and publishing projects. The Gallery Curator will confidently liaise with a variety of stakeholders, including the general public, emerging and established artists, curators and writers, on the planning and realisation of a broad range of exhibitions and creative projects. More information: https://busprojects.org.au/footer/positions-vacant Position Description (PDF): https://busprojects.org.au/content/footer/1-positions-vacant/2018_curator_pd_bus_projects.pdf Applicants must provide the following via email (PDF): 2-page letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria and a current curriculum vitae […]

Art in Conflict PhD Stipend, Curtin University

March 19, 2018Jobs

The School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (MCASI) at Curtin University is offering a PhD Scholarship in the area of art and war. The position is funded by MCASI and is part of the Art in Conflict research project, receiving Australian Research Council Linkage Projects funding. Art in Conflict is a three-year project examining contemporary war art at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The project is led by Curtin University in partnership with the Australian War Memorial (AWM) and the National Trust (NSW), including researchers from the University of Melbourne, UNSW and University of Manchester. The PhD candidate […]

Fashion Studies: An International Exploration, UTS 6-7 April 2018

March 19, 2018News

Fashion Studies: An International Exploration will be the first of a series of Symposia in Fashion, Textiles and Fashion Studies to be hosted at UTS from 6-7 April 2018. Led by Distinguished Professor Peter McNeil FAHA, it coincides with the launch of a new Sydney Foundation, Sherman Centre for Culture and Ideas, which takes as its first theme a focus on critical fashion. The UTS Workshop is generously supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and ‘Design Cultures’ at UTS. The inter-disciplinary event brings together art historians, historians, literary theorists, Asian Studies specialists, designers, material culture anthropologists […]