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CFP – Latecomers: Anita Brookner Then and Now 17-18 March 2017

November 7, 2016News

As we approach the first anniversary of Anita Brookner’s death, this first international and interdisciplinary conference devoted to Brookner seeks to explore the meaning and significance of Brookner’s vast legacy, in both fiction and non-fiction. Presented by The University of Melbourne Venue: National Gallery of Victoria (International) OVERVIEW The work of Anita Brookner occupies an ambiguous place in the literary field. Brookner has a cult status, was a Booker-Prize winner and best-selling novelist, and yet her work received what she herself deemed ‘censorious’ reviews and limited critical attention. Brookner’s death was accompanied by conflicted accolades that appeared to celebrate her […]

Conference Timetable: The Work of Art

November 2, 2016AAANZ Conference

The AAANZ 2016 Conference Committee are pleased to announce an exciting program for the annual conference. The first day of the conference is dedicated to papers by postgraduate students, all delegates are warmly invited to come and support these papers. The two keynote speakers are The 2016 AAANZ Conference keynote speakers are Dr Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C and Professor Anthea Callen, Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture, University of Nottingham, UK and Professor Emeritus, School of Art, Australian National University. More information here. Please note that registrations close on 21st November 2016, please make sure your register […]

Symposium – Regions of the Contemporary: Transnational Art Festivals and Exhibitions in 1990s Southeast Asia

October 20, 2016News

Join us for this three-day symposium to reflect on critical events for transnational contemporary art across Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Informed by recent archival research undertaken into Chiang Mai Social Installation (CMSI), an artist-initiated festival held in northern Thailand (see Simon Soon’s essay in the upcoming issue of Afterall), we propose three key questions for discussion: How did CMSI, and gatherings like it, inform and displace the more deliberate, institutional pictures of a region propagated elsewhere, for example by large triennials in Brisbane and Fukuoka? If Southeast Asia was still peripheral to the art world’s centres in the 1990s, […]

Workshop CFP: The Arts and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes and images in shaping experience and guiding action

October 17, 2016News

CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: The Arts and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes and images in shaping experience and guiding action. Venue and Dates: Adelaide, July 3rd- 6th, 2017 (University of Adelaide & Art Gallery of SA) Organised by the ArtSense Taste and Community project (Australian Research Council funded project): http://artsense.edu.au/ Submission Deadline: 30th November 2016 This workshop is also sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA); and most sessions will run as a stream within the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy: http://aap.org.au/ The papers will address topics which bear upon the way cultural artifacts acquire […]

AWM: Spiros Zournazis Memorial Fellowship

October 17, 2016News

The Spiros Zournazis Memorial Fellowship supports research into the Australian War Memorial’s extensive art collection by early career scholars. The Fellowship is open to honours or postgraduate students undertaking a thesis as part of their degree, or those who have completed a PhD, MA or Mphil since January 2014. Fellows are free to determine their own course of research provided it focuses primarily on the Memorial’s art collection. Scholars working in the fields of art history, cultural studies, museology, sociology and related disciplines may apply. Research projects that demonstrate methodological innovation will be considered favourably. The Fellowship is four weeks […]

Verónica Tello – Counter-Memorial Aesthetics: Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art

October 17, 2016News

Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac Julien, Rosemary Laing, Dierk Schmidt, Hito Steyerl, Lyndell Brown and Charles Green-negotiate their diverse subject positions while addressing and taking part in the production of images associated with refugee experiences and histories. Tello argues that their practices, which manifest across a range of contexts including Cuba, the United States, Australia and Europe, represent an emergent, global paradigm of contemporary art, […]

AAANZ 2016 Student Bursaries Announced

October 13, 2016AAANZ Conference, NewsAAANZ 2016 Conference, Bursaries, Funding, Student support

The AAANZ 2016 Conference is pleased to announce the following students and recent graduates as 2016 bursary recipients. We particularly acknowledge Associate Professor Denise Ferris (Head of School) and the School of Art, ANU for the generous support of five accommodation bursaries. Joanne Baitz (UWA) Tracy Clement (SCA/USyd) Fernando DeCampo (Parsons) Macarena de Leon (UCan) Jane Eckett (UMelb) Stephanie Holm (UNewcastle) Olivia Spiers (UAdelaide) Margaret Summerton (VCA/UMelb) Anastasia Tyurina (QCA/Griffith U) Kate Warren (Monash)

Booklaunch: Dr Christopher Marshall, Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench – Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Thursday October 20, 6-8pm

October 10, 2016News

Book Launch : Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Dr Christopher R. Marshall Senior Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2016 To be formally launched by Dr Gerard Vaughan, Director, National Gallery of Australia Presented in partnership with the Australian Institute of Art History. Thursday, 20 October 2016 6.00pm-8.00pm The Ian Potter Museum of Art University of Melbourne PARKVILLE VIC 3010 In Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting, Marshall presents a new reading of 17th-century Italian […]

AAANZ Early Bird Registration extended to October 14, 2016

October 6, 2016News

Due to the overwhelming response to the call for papers for the AAANZ 2016 annual conference in Canberra we are delighted to extend the Early Bird Registration deadline to October 14, 2016. We will shortly be announcing the recipients of the 2016 Student Bursaries. Please see the AAANZ Conference page for updated information regarding scheduling of the Postgraduate Student Day (Dec 1) and Keynote Address by Dr Melissa Chiu (Dec 1) and Professor Anthea Callen (Dec 2). A full list of speakers and paper abstracts will be available towards the end of October. We look forward to seeing you in […]

Job Opportunity: Head, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne

September 26, 2016Jobs, News

The Faculty of Arts wishes to appoint a distinguished academic as Head of School, Culture and Communication. The successful applicant will have a strong research, teaching and engagement record and a proven track record in leadership. The Dean and Heads of School constitute the senior leadership team of the Faculty of Arts and the successful applicant will both manage her or his School as well as assist with the running of the Faculty. Under the broad direction of the Dean and within the general outlines of the Faculty Business Plan and the Faculty Budget, the Head has the overall academic […]