Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes February 3-4, 2012, The University of Melbourne The Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, The School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, and the Australian Institute of Art History present Dispersed Identities: Sexuality, Surrealism and the Global Avant-Gardes is a conference...
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Modernism as a Local Phenomenon: The Art of Artur Barrio and Helio Oiticica María Elena Lucero Visiting Argentinian art theorist María Elena Lucero presents a paper on influential Brazilian artists Artur Barrio and Helio Oiticica in relation to recent ‘decolonial’ thinking in Latin America. In this, she tracks a particular local modernism that drew...
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The World and World-Making in Art Sir Roland Wilson Building, The Australian National University, Canberra 11-13 August, 2011 This international conference coincides with the Humanities Research Centre’s theme for 2011 on ‘The World and World-Making in the Humanities and the Arts’. It complements two further HRC conferences in 2011 on World Literature and World History....
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Call for Papers Antipodean Fields: Bourdieu and Southern Cultures Conference Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney 8-10 June 2011 A good deal of economic, social, cultural and political analysis in the antipodes has drawn on and engaged critically with the work of Pierre Bourdieu in order to adapt it to the particularities...
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