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AAANZ Conference 2018 – Third Keynote Speaker Announced

May 8, 2018News

AAANZ and RMIT University School of Art, hosts of the 2018 AAANZ Conference – Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art, are pleased to announced that the third keynote speaker for the conference will be Genevieve Grieves (AU), Head of the First Peoples Department at Museums Victoria. She will be joining two other keynotes, eminent art historian Griselda Pollock (UK) and curator Ema Tavola (Fiji). The conference will be held 5-8th December, 2018. Genevieve Grieves is Worimi – traditionally from mid north coast New South Wales – and has lived on Kulin country in Melbourne for many years. She is an educator, […]

Applications Open: Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris Residency Fellowship

May 1, 2018Funding

Applications are now open for the Power Institute 2019 Terrence and Lynette Fern Cité Internationale des Arts Residency Fellowships. We are accepting applications online via submittable. All information including criteria, eligibility and residency details can be found on the submittable form. Applications are open in the following categories: a) Participating artists / craftspeople b) Art critics, art writers, art curators, art historians or art administrators c) Staff of the University of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art and PhD research students of the Department of Art History & Film Studies and Sydney College of the Arts A three or six-month residency […]

Australian National RIdIM Centre

April 30, 2018News

Dear Colleagues, It’s with great pleasure that we announce the formation of a National RIdIM centre in Australia and invite contact from all those who are interested. Established in 2017, the Australian Music and Art Research Group is based at the School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania. It fosters scholarly and practical research into the intersections between music and visual culture, including – but not limited to – the study of music iconography and the development of new creative work. Association RIdIM officially recognized the group as the Australian National RIdIM Centre in December 2017. Last week, the Australian […]

Georges Mora Fellowship – 2018 deadline: May 6

April 23, 2018Funding, General

The Georges Mora Fellowship is dedicated to the support and promotion of contemporary art and artists in Melbourne and Australia. Named in honour of Georges Mora, the renowned restaurateur, art dealer, patron, mentor and cultural catalyst, the Fellowship aims to ignite courage and support the fresh thinking required for the development of art in Australia. APPLYING TO THE GEORGES MORA FELLOWSHIP Applications for the 2018 Fellowship are now open. Download the 2018 application form here. The completed form, visual support material and all supporting documentation must be submitted by 11pm, 6 May 2018. For inquiries or requests for further information please see […]

“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