Tag Archive for Adelaide

Funding: Scholarships at the ARC Centre for the History of Emotions

ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Change Program Scholarships Scholarships are available in the new ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, working with Professor David Lemmings in the OChange¹program. Value Opportunities include: ·      Full scholarship to the value of $26,000 per annum; or ·      Supplementary scholarship to the value of $5,500 per annum. Each scholarship offers the recipient a travel/accommodation allowance of up to $13,500 in order to conduct research in Europe. The type and number of scholarship(s) will be determined in consideration of the available funding and the number of suitable applications. Term Up to three years, with a possible six month extension. Discipline/Research Topic The topics for study should relate to emotions in Europe (including Britain), 1100-1800…

Stop (the) Gap curator and artist talks – Adelaide

Stop(the)Gap curator and artist talks Stop(the)Gap curator Brenda L Croft and international Indigenous curatorial advisors Kathleen Ash-Milby (USA), David Garneau (Canada) and Megan Tamati-Quennell (Aotearoa/NZ) are joined by participating Stop(the)Gap artists including Genevieve Grieves, Alan Michelson, Lisa Reihana, r e a and Warwiick Thornton. To be chaired by Hetti Perkins. For further information 08 8302 0870, unisa.edu.au/samstagmuseum Venue: Bradley Forum, Level 5, Hawke Building, University of South Australia, City West campus, 55 North Terrace, Adelaide Date: 3.30pm Saturday 26 February 2021 All welcome, free admission About the exhibition Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous art in motion, 24 February – 21 April 2011, Gallery 1 – 3 Some of the most provocative and illuminating moving image work today is being created by Indigenous new media artists – yet there…

Call for Papers: Norbert Elias, Emotional Styles, and Historical Change

Norbert Elias, Emotional Styles, and Historical Change An Interdisciplinary Collaboratory at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, Change Program University of Adelaide 14-15 June, 2011 This will be an international Collaboratory on the historical development of emotional styles in Europe and North America from medieval times to the present. The meeting will focus on the seminal ideas of the sociologist Norbert Elias about changes in emotions and society in his The Civilising Process (1939) and his work more generally. Contributions are sought from historians, sociologists, cultural theorists and others working in the field of the history of emotions, and may take the form of substantial historical essays or theoretical papers discussing alternative models and interpretations to…

Conference: AAANZ Adelaide 2010 – Full Program now available

Ruby Tjangawa WILLIAMSON, Australia, c.1940, Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia, Puli murpu—mountain range, 2009, Amata, South Australia, synthetic polymer paint on linen, 121.5x152.0cm, South Australian Government Grant 2009, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Ruby Tjangawa Williamson, Courtesy of Tjala Arts

AAANZ Conference, December 1-4, Adelaide Tradition and Transformation The full program for the AAANZ (Art Association Australia and New Zealand) is now available to download from their website here The program for Wednesday/Thursday is here (pdf) Friday/Saturday here (pdf). The conference covers a wide range of topics, both Australian and International, contemporary and historical from both established and emerging scholars. For details about registration or any other enquiries please see the AAANZ website. The keynote speakers are (full detail here): December 1st 6pm:  Professor Evelyn Welch (Professor of Renaissance Studies and Vice Principal for Research and International Affairs, Queen Mary, University of London) – ‘Copycat Culture: Creating Fashion in Renaissance Europe’ December 2nd 5:30: Professor John Paoletti (Kenan Professor of…

Symposium: ‘A Beautiful Line: Italian Prints from Mantegna to Piranesi’ Art Gallery of South Australia

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A Beautiful Line: Italian Prints from Mantegna to Piranesi Date: Saturday 21 August, 1-4pm Venue: Radford Auditorium, Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide The Art Gallery of South Australia’s European print collection was founded more than 120 years ago and its large holdings feature works by leading masters of the European printmaking tradition. Join us for an afternoon of fine scholarship on a range of stimulating topics, view the exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine to cap off a perfectly agreeable day. 1pm Welcome 1.10pm Dr Lisa Mansfield, University of Adelaide – After Michelangelo: The Reproduction and Reception of the Sistine Ceiling and Last Judgment 1.50pm Dr Justin Clements, University of Melbourne – Print Apocalypse: image and…

Call for Papers: AAANZ Conference ‘Tradition and Transformation’

Tradition and Transformation – AAANZ Conference 2010 1-3 December – University of Adelaide, University of South Australia and Art Gallery of South Australia Proposals for papers for the 2010 AANZ conference are now being called for. Deadline for submissions: Friday 13 August 2010. AAANZ website – http://www.aaanz.info/ This year’s AAANZ conference will be held from 1–3 December 2010, that is Wednesday to Friday, with a late afternoon start, keynote speaker and drinks on the Wednesday, and the papers on the Thursday and the Friday. A range of university and gallery partners will come together to deliver another very exciting conference. A post-graduate training day will be held on the 1st. It is important that members alert their students to this…

News: Art Gallery of South Australia Announces New Director

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Last week the Chairman of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Michael Abbott QC, announced that Nick Mitzevich would be the new Director of the Gallery. The previous director, Christopher Menz, resigned from the post in January this year. Nick Mitzevich is currently the Director of the University of Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane and was formerly Director of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery. At forty years old, Mr Mitzevich is the youngest person to assume the role of Director in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s 129 year history. Nick Mitzevich said, “It is an honour to have been selected as the new Director. The Art Gallery of South Australia has a dynamic history which is most inspiring and…