The 2010 AAANZ National Conference, which ran from 1-3 December, was hosted by the University of Adelaide, the Art Gallery of South Australia and UniSA around the theme of Tradition and Transformation. Professor James McWha, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, launched the conference, and the three keynote speakers were Professor Evelyn Welch, Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at Queen Mary College, University of London; Professor John Paoletti of Wesleyan College, USA, and Dr Philip Jones of the South Australian Museum. 170 papers were delivered in 23 streams ranging from Renaissance art to Indigenous and new media art, and AGSA Director and Curators also spoke in the Gallery around works on display or in the collection. A postgraduate training day was incorporated into the conference along with pre-conference tours to Adelaide’s leading art and design centres and museums, the latter funded by Arts SA. Feedback from attendees praised the institutional cooperation underpinning the conference.
The postgraduate program in Art History at the University of Adelaide and the Art Gallery of South Australia are now teaching interactive courses online including virtual classes in the Art Gallery. The four online courses taught around the Art Gallery’s collection are Japanese Art, Australian Art, European Art since the Renaissance and Australian Indigenous Art. For more details visit www.arthistory.adelaide.edu.au
Catherine Speck