Category: Calls for Papers

Calls for Papers for conference, symposia and publications. Includes both Australian and International events and publications. We welcome submissions in this category, but they must be art or art history related. See ‘Contact Us’ for details on how to submit a CFP.

Call for Papers | Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories | Sydney October 2017

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories | An international symposium hosted by the Power Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, 11–13 October 2017 Proposals due 28 February 2021 Studies focused on gender in Southeast Asian societies have emerged, in recent decades, in approximate concurrence with the development of regionally focused Southeast Asian art histories. The founding premise of this international symposium is that there has hitherto been insufficient discursive intersection between these two fields. Topics discussed may include: 1. Accounts of individual artists and collectives whose work engages with gender; 2. Investigations of gender in the exhibitionary, critical, and historiographical receptions of works of art, from any period 3. Considerations of the relationships between artists and/or works of art and larger Southeast Asian cultural constructs of gender, as enacted in political, economic, religious and other domains. Proposals will be particularly welcomed for papers…

Symposium | Agency and aesthetics: A symposium on the expanded field of photography | Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

With more photographs circulating than ever before, what do photographers want their images to do? How are artists retaining agency amongst the changing ontology of photography and its conventions and technologies? Does photography either in an art gallery or online still offer a democratic potential in its ability to alter or resist existing positions? As part of considering the shifting politics and aesthetics of photography the event is an opportunity to consider the current nature of subjectivity in image worlds. If the selfie is the “the first format of the new global majority” as Niholas Mirzoeff has stated, how has it continued to be an argument about who a person is and what they stand for? Where is the self situated in the convergence of images and multiple public personae online? This day-long symposium invites artists, writers, critics, academics and…

Jobs, Funding and Season’s Greetings

The Nativity, Hans Kamensetzer, c. 1470 linden, h 60.0cm × w 55.0cm × d 30.0cm.

This will be the last post for a few weeks over the Christmas  and New Year break. As always you can find me on Twitter and Facebook where I will post anything of interest I spot over the break. Below are some last opportunities for the year, and good luck to anyone squeezing job, funding application and abstract writing into their festive period. I want to thank everyone for reading, commenting, subscribing and sharing posts. It is honestly a pleasure to have spent another year highlighting the many and varied events, exhibitions, publications focused on art and art history happening in Melbourne and around Australia. See you in 2017! Jobs Australia Head of School, Faculty of Art & Design, UNSW – deadline 28th February 2017 Exhibitions Manager, TarraWarra Museum of Art – deadline 6th February 2017 Exhibition Assistant, RMIT University…

Call for Papers | Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Special Issue: “Colonial Caribbean Visual Cultures”

Image: James Hakewill, Haughton Court, Hanover, Jamaica, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

This multidisciplinary collection will examine the creation and circulation of colonial visual cultures from the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The era of Caribbean slavery placed the islands at the centre of the production and movement of goods, ideas, money and peoples, as well as cultural conflicts, exchanges and hybridities which created new challenges for artists, and new ways of looking. As a cornerstone of European imperial expansion the Caribbean had an enormous imaginative influence on Europe and the wider world. Tropical vistas and diverse peoples provided new visual subjects, and the art of the Caribbean participated in the circum-Atlantic movement of aesthetics, ideas and images: from mid-eighteenth-century georgic scenes which attempted to reconcile beauty with enslaved labour, to the colonial picturesque of the 1790s which rearticulated metropolitan landscape visions, to the unique botanical and zoological images which…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 16th December 2016

Jobs Australia Deputy Director, Collection and Exhibitions, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art – deadline January 13, 2021 Manager, Warmun Art Centre, East Kimberley, Western Australia – deadline 16 January 2021 Gallery Coordinator, Warmun Art Centre, East Kimberley, Western Australia – deadline 16 January 2021 Art Centre Manager, Tjala Arts, Amata, APY lands, Central Australia – deadline 1 February 2021 Postdoctoral Fellow with ARC project DP170102796 Art precincts and cultural participation in networked public space, University of Melbourne – deadline 3rd January 2017 Education Coordinator, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 19th January 2017 Registrar, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG), Launceston, Tasmania – deadline 20th January 2017 Visual Arts and Design Collection Officer, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG), Launceston, Tasmania – deadline 20th January 2017 Marketing Manager (0.4) and an Exhibition Manager and Program Producer (0.8), Experimenta – deadline 20th…

CFP | EMAJ 10

Call for papers | EMAJ 10 The editors of EMAJ (www.emajartjournal.com) are seeking articles for their upcoming issue EMAJ 10. This is an open issue and the editors welcome articles on any topic relating to art history and visual culture. Articles will be published in April 2017. EMAJ welcomes monographic articles about specific artists or art collectives as well as thematic or theoretical analyses of art history from any historical period. Established and emerging researchers working within the fields of art history, architectural history, curatorship, aesthetics, visual culture, and museum studies are encouraged to submit. EMAJ is dedicated to providing a platform for emerging research and particularly encourages submissions from early career scholars and PhD students. All accepted submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Manuscripts must be submitted by email to emaj.editors@gmail.com, as word documents (.doc) only. Articles can be between 5000-10000…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 9th December 2016

Jobs Australia Head of Collections & Exhibition Management, Arts Centre Melbourne – deadline 8th January 2016 Lecturer (Art History and Curating), Monash University – deadline 1st February 2017 Collection System Officer, The National Gallery of Australia – deadline 16th December 2016 Business Manager, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) – deadline 9th January 2016 Communications Manager, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) – deadline 9th January 2016 Principal Curator, History, Industry and Technology, Queensland Museum – deadline 16th January 2017 Senior Collections Manager, Collections Management, Museums & Cultural Engagement, University of Sydney – deadline 13th December 2016 Visual Arts and Design – Curator, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston – deadline 20th January 2017 Exhibitions Curator, New Beginnings: Refugee Arts & Culture Festival (based in Sydney) – deadline 20th January 2017 Principal Curator, Indigenous Collections, Queensland Museum – deadline 16th January 2017 Marketing and…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 2nd December 2016

Jobs Michael Buxton Curator, University of Melbourne – 15th January 2016 Museum Curator Collections, Yarra Ranges Council – deadline 12th December 2016 Principal Lecturer in Art / Creative Arts, University of Worcester – Institute of Education – deadline 19th December 2016 Funding Residential Awards to study art history, history, archaeology, society and culture of Italy at the British School at Rome (for senior, PhD and ECR scholars) – deadline 17th January (though a few are later so please double check) Goethe-Institut Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Haus der Kunst (1 year fellowship) – deadline 12th December 2016 The David Wilkie Scholarship for the Study of Spanish Art University of Edinburgh – Edinburgh College of Art – deadline 1st February 2016 Calls for Papers Early Modern Satire: Themes, Re-evaluations, Practices  (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2 – 04, 2017) – Deadline January 4, 2017 Forum…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 25th November 2016

Jobs Australia Gallery Director Bunjil Place, City of Casey (Melbourne) – position open until filled Curator, Rockhampton Art Gallery – deadline 8th January 2016 Senior Lecturer, Ceramics, School of Art, ANU – deadline 27th November 2016 Visual Arts Educator, Shepparton Art Museum – deadline 2nd December 2016 International Lecturer in Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art) (Teaching-Focused), The University of Manchester – deadline 29th November 2016 Funding Library Fellowships (on primary source material within the special collections in Palace Green Library and/or Durham Cathedral), Durham University – Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies – deadline 15th January 2016 Calls for Papers Senses, Emotions and the Affective Turn – Recent Perspectives and New Challenges in Cultural History (26-29 June 2017,Umeå, Sweden) – deadline 19th December 2016 Urban Heritage Activism (Berlin, 16-17 Mar 17) (multi-disciplinary conference and exhibition aimed at multidisciplinary…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 18th November 2016

Jobs Australia Objects Conservator, Australian War Memorial – deadline 7th December 2016 CEO, National Film and Sound Archive – deadline 12th December 2016 Collection Manager, Indigenous Collections AccessHumanities Department; Collections, Research and Exhibitions Division, Museum Victoria – deadline 1st December 2016 International Stanford University Arts Research Fellowships – 2017-18 Fellowship Theme ‘Creative Cities: The Role of Art in Reimagining Cities’ – deadline 10th January 2017 Funding and Prizes The Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies – deadline 3rd March 2017 Calls for Papers Making Women’s Art Matter: New approaches to the careers and legacies of women artists (London, February 2016) – deadline 10th December 2016 European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art 2017 Conference ‘Food, glorious food’ (Antwerp, June 2017)- deadline 15th January 2017 Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500–1800 (University of California, Santa Barbara April 21–22, 2017) -…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 11th November 2016

Jobs Australia Curator Collections and Exhibitions, Grainger Museum, University of Melbourne – deadline 27th November 2016 Research Associate – Collecting the West, University of Western Australia (part time)- deadline 25th November 2016 International Curator of Contemporary Art, Te Tuhi, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, New Zealand – deadline 9th December 2016 The Philippe Jabre Visiting Professorship in Art History and Curating, American University of Beirut- deadline 15th January 2017 Postdoctoral Opportunities in the Humanities 2016-19, University of Oxford – The Colleges of the University of Oxford – deadline 20th November 2016 Funding Juliane and Franz Roh Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary Art from the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich – deadline 15th January 2017 Visiting Fellowships and Travel Grants, Lewis Walpole Library (Yale) – deadline 9th January 2017 The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship Program – deadline 1st December 2016 Calls…

Call for Papers | Latecomers Anita Brookner Then and Now | Melbourne – March 2017

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) 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 life while restating the predictable (and vexatious) reading of her identity as a lonely, single woman. In addition to her 24 novels and one novella, Brookner authored a number of art-historical works and was a prolific reviewer of art and literature…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 4th November 2016

Jobs Australia Senior Curator, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney – deadline 9th November 2016 Project Manager, Chau CHak Wing Museum, University of Sydney – deadline 9th November 2016 Lecturer, Master of Arts (Industry Fellow), RMIT University – deadline 10th November 2016 Special Projects Curator, Jewish Museum of Australia – deadline 23rd November 2016 Assistant Curator, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia – deadline 16th November 2016 Administrator, Samstag Museum, University of South Australia – deadline 9th November 2016 Senior Exhibitions Manager, The Science Creativity Education Studio, University of South Australia – deadline 7th November 2016 Digital Exhibitions Manager, The Science Creativity Education Studio, University of South Australia – deadline 7th November 2016 Director, Contemporary SA – deadline 18th November 2016 Exhibition Manager, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery – deadline 7th November 2016 Executive Director, Craft Victoria – deadline 18th November 2016 International Directorship, The British School…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | 28th October 2016

Jobs Australia Director, Heide Museum of Modern Art – deadline 18th November 2016 Associate Professor, Visual Arts, La Trobe University (Bendigo) – deadline 23rd November 2016 Lecturer (Level B), Visual Arts, La Trobe University (Bendigo) – deadline 18th November 2016 Lecturer (Level B) Visual Arts, La Trobe University (Mildura) – deadline 18th November 2016 Lecturer in Roman and/or Greek Archaeology / Material Culture, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia – deadline 6th November 2016 Temporary Exhibitions Research Officer, Anzac Memorial, Sydney – deadline 6th November 2016 Curator, Urban Art Projects, Brisbane – deadline not specified International Director, Artspace NZ – deadline 25th November 2016 Assistant Professor, Art Historian Specializing in Chinese Material Culture, University of Hong Kong – deadline 2nd January 2017 Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art History, University of Hong Kong – deadline 2nd January 2017 Lecturer in Early Modern British History…

Jobs, Funding, Calls for Papers | Art History and Curatorship | October 21 2016

Jobs Australia Senior Curator, La Trobe Arts – deadline 10th November 2016 Senior Exhibitions Manager, Science, Creativity, Education Studio, University of South Australia – deadline 7th November 2016 c3 Contemporary Art Space – Gallery Manager, Abbotsford Convent – deadline 7th November 2016 Exhibitions Officer, Artspace Mackay – deadline 3rd November 2016 International Head Curator Pictorial Collections, The Hocken Collections, University of Otago – deadline 6th November 2016 Art Curator, The Hocken Collections, University of Otago – deadline 6th November 2016 Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship in 19th-/Early 20th-Century European Art 2017-2018, University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art – deadline 20th November 2016 Professor of Architectural History or Theory and Reader in Architecture (2 posts) Newcastle University, UK – deadline 11th November 2016 Postdoc, Printing the Past. Architecture, Print Culture, and the Uses of the Past in Modern Europe, Leiden University – deadline 3rd January 2017 Funding…