Early Modern Circle Paper “Disasters in print in early modern Europe” A meeting of the Early Modern Circle for 2010 will take place TONIGHT Monday 20 September at 6.15pm in the Tutorial room, ground floor, Baillieu Library, the University of Melbourne. We will hear short papers by Jenny Spinks and Charles Zika on the topic of their work related to their ARC Discovery project “Reading the signs: disaster, apocalypse and demonology in European print culture, 1450-1700” (also held with Prof Sue Broomhall). See the ARC website here - http://earlymoderndisaster.wordpress.com/ Please come along for a drink and a stimulating discussion of…
Month: September 2010
Conference ‘Courage and Cowardice’ Australian Early Medieval Association
Australian Early Medieval Association ‘Courage and Cowardice’ Seventh Annual Conference, Thursday 18 to Friday 19 November 2010, The University of Western Australia AEMA’s seventh annual conference will be held from 18-19 November 2010 at the Old Senate Room, Irwin Street Building, The University of Western Australia. This symposium will explore the subject of courage and cowardice in the early medieval world, c.300-1100, across a range of disciplines. Conference Convenor: Shane McLeod, University of Western Australia - conference@aema.net.au. Plenary Speakers Professor Andrew Lynch, Director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, The University of Western Australia. Dr Stefano Carboni,…
Museums Australia National Conference ‘Interesting Times: New roles for collections’
Museums Australia National Conference ‘Interesting Times: New roles for collections’ Dates: 28th September - 2nd October. Venue: The Conference will be hosted by the University of Melbourne on its Parkville campus. Conference Website: http://www.ma2010.com.au/ The Conference Program, is based on the theme Interesting times: New roles for collections, and the sub-themes below. Conference themes Collections for communities: Using collections to tell the stories of all our communities. Includes use of collections to strengthen indigenous communities Collections for cultural diplomacy: The role of collections in international and local diplomacy (including touring exhibitions, repatriation and restitution issues) Collections and commerce: Leveraging collections…
Lecture – Patrick McCaughey ‘In the end there is no such thing as art, only artists’
Public Lecture at The University of Melbourne Professor Patrick McCaughey ‘In the end there is no such thing as art, only artists’ In his lecture, Professor Patrick McCaughey will expatiate on the nature and significance of Art History - taking as his starting point the famous opening sentence from E. H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art (1950), ‘In the end there is no such thing as art only artists.’ Patrick McCaughey studied Fine Arts and English at the University of Melbourne and became art critic of The Age in 1966. After a period in New York on a Harkness Fellowship,…
Lecture – Catherine Mosbach (Landscape Architect) ‘Kinetic Bonds’
Dean’s Lecture Series 2010 Melbourne School of Design - Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, The University of Melbourne Catherine Mosbach Landscape Architect, Paris kinetic bonds Date: Tuesday 5 October 2020 @ 7pm Venue: Carrillo Gantner Theatre (Basement - Sidney Myer Asia Centre), The University of Melbourne. “The image, capable of producing the effect of strangeness, thus enacts a kind of experiment, by showing us that things are perhaps not what they seem, that it is up to us to see them otherwise and, through this openness, to transform them through imagination, then to make them truly different.” - Maurice…
Call for Papers – Aesthetic, Art and Pornography
Call for Papers Aesthetics, Art and Pornography - An interdisciplinary conference Institute of Philosophy, London, 16-18 June 2011 (in collaboration with the Aesthetics Research Group, University of Kent) The aim of this conference is to investigate, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the artistic status and aesthetic dimension of pornographic pictures, films, and literature. Is there such a thing as pornographic art? Or are pornography and art mutually exclusive? Can a line be drawn between these two domains of representation? Or is there perhaps some interesting overlap, some common ground worth exploring? To answer these questions certain fundamental issues in the philosophy…
Postdoctoral Fellowship – Modern or Contemporary art at the Courtauld Institute
Postdoctoral Fellowship The Courtauld Institute of Art Andrew W Mellon Foundation/Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mellon MA) 1 September 2020 to 31 August 201, £25,013 per annum Closing date: 7 October 2020 ( Final selection of the Fellow will be made in early December 2010). The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is offering a fellowship to an early career researcher in the field of Modern or Contemporary art. This fellowship will give the Fellow the opportunity to pursue a research project while gaining teaching experience in a research environment and working…
Call for Papers - 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Call for Papers 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 12–15, 2011) The Congress is an annual gathering of over 3,000 scholars interested in Medieval Studies. It features over 600 sessions of papers, panel discussions, roundtables, workshops, and performances. The full call for papers can be downloaded from the congress website here. Below are some sessions of interest to art historians. The congress website advises that anyone interested in contributing a paper should contact the session convenor as soon as possible. http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/ American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (ASIMS) (3): I. Art and Architecture in the Era of the Book…
Centre for Contemporary Photography Free Lectures
Penny Edmonds & Jane Lydon Date: Wednesday 15 September 6.15pm Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street, Fitzroy, Australia Further information: email: info@ccp.org.au Tel. 61 3 9417 1549 In their papers Penny Edmonds and Jane Lydon will address issues of Indigenous sovereignty and rights through colonial photography and performances. Chaired by Kate Darian-Smith. Penny Edmonds - ‘The Waitangi Treaty Photographic Tableau and the Idea of the ‘Maori Magna Carta” In 1923 a set of photographic tableaux illustrating key historical moments between settlers and Maori peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand was produced. Penny explores this series, in particular Signing the Waitangi…
Funding ‘Newberry Library Residential Fellowships in the Humanities
2011-2012 Newberry Library Residential Fellowships in the Humanities The Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago, Illinois, invites applications for its 2011-2012 Fellowships in the Humanities. Newberry Library fellowships support research in residence at the Library, and all proposed research must be appropriate to the collections. Our fellowship program rests on the belief that all projects funded by the Newberry benefit from engagement both with the materials in the Newberry’s collections and with the lively community of researchers that gathers around those collections. Long-term residential fellowships are available for periods of six to eleven months to postdoctoral scholars who…
Call for Papers - Antipodean Fields Bourdieu and Southern Cultures Conference
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 of Australian and New Zealand histories and conditions. There have been significant applications of Bourdieu’s field theory to the organisation of antipodean literary, musical, sports and media fields. The research that informed Distinction has been replicated in a national study of the relations between the practices…
Lecture – ‘Mughal Painting at its Zenith’ Oliver Everett
Mr Oliver Everett - Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle The Life and Times of the Indian Emperor Shah Jahan Mr Oliver Everett, Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, United Kingdom, will be presenting the images as part of an international public lecture based on the Islamic manuscript, the Padshahnama (chronicle of the King of the World) which is the unique official history of the Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan, who ruled India from 1628 to 1658. He is best remembered for the building of the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.…
Victus Hobday – Magician of the Palimpsest: William Kentridge
‘Magician of the Palimpsest – William Kentridge’ Cinq Thémes Paris, Jeu de Paume 29.06.10 – 5.09.10 NB: This exhibition ‘William Kentridge: Five Themes’ is currently on in Melbourne at ACMI, Federation Square until May 27th 2012 - see here for details of the Melbourne Show. The Jeu de Paume is a public gallery situated overlooking the Place de Concorde in a corner of the Tuilleries Garden. From the outside it appears to be a large classical mausoleum for retired double-decker buses or perhaps a large garden pavilion of the nineteenth century that would feature fusty old examples of gilt-framed dark…
Funding - Chinese Painting, Ashmoleum Museum
The Christensen Fellowship -Chinese Painting University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum The Ashmolean Museum re-opened to the public almost one year ago, following a hugely exciting redevelopment. The Christensen Fellowship is an endowed postdoctoral fellowship associated with the Khoan and Michael Sullivan Gallery of Chinese painting. The Christensen Fellow will be expected to undertake new research in the field of Chinese painting, with a view to publication. A confident communicator with good presentation skills, you will have a sound knowledge of the Chinese language, hold a doctoral degree in Chinese art or be on the point of completing a doctoral…
Exhibition - The Cipher’s Interval (La Trobe University Museum of Art)
The Cipher’s Interval Lyn Plummer’s installations engage sound and digital imagery and wall and floor forms in a wide range of materials. She investigates the diverse ways that significant meanings can be attached to space, forms, marks, images, sounds and silences, and how connotations of these symbols shift with each exhibition space, the variations of the elements and of the nature of the intervals between them. Lyn Plummer 8 September - 31 October LUMA | La Trobe University Museum of Art - http://www.latrobe.edu.au/luma/ To be opened by Dr Dan Wollmering, Senior Lecturer Department of Fine Arts, faculty of Art and…