Call For Papers for the Collaborations in Modern and Postmodern Visual Art conference, to be
held from Thursday September 30-Friday October 1, 2010 at Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne.
Collaboration has fostered ground-breaking innovations in the visual arts during the 20th and 21st centuries. The conference focuses on the dynamics of collaborative experiments and reciprocal exchanges by modern and postmodern artists. It will explore creative partnership in social and historical contexts, discursive and ideological frames, and gender. It seeks to formulate new methodologies in the study of artistic collaboration, to shed light on creative co-operation and to provide critiques of traditional models of authorship.
Keynote speaker: Professor Joachim Pissarro (USA). Conference convenor: Dr Janine Burke. Conference organiser: Sarah Tayton.
Offers of papers are invited. Topics may include:
• Collaborations in current artistic practice
• Creative partnerships within modernist groups e.g. Russian Revolutionary artists, Surrealists, Fluxus etc.,
• Collective political engagement
• 1960s and 70s protest art
• Feminist approaches to creative partnership
• Collaborative curatorial practice
• Collective representation and issues of authorship
• Theorisation of collaborative practice
• Intimacy and creative partnership
• Public art
Abstracts of no more than 300 words, accompanied by a brief CV, may be submitted via email to Sarah Tayton at collaborations@arts.monash.edu.au in Word or PDF format. Please advise of A/V needs. Submissions from postgraduates and early career researchers welcome.
Submission deadline: Friday May 28, 2010.
Confirmation of acceptance: Friday June 11, 2010.
Conference publication:
A refereed volume, Collaborations in Modern and Postmodern Visual Art, featuring selected papers from the conference, will be published online.
Collaborations in Modern and Postmodern Visual Art is partly sponsored by Social and Aesthetics Research Unit (SARU), School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Monash University.
Sydney poet, AASRN member and teacher Adam Aitken has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai'i for Fall semester 2010. He will be teaching poetry at the English Department Manoa campus.
Biopolitics and Postcolonial Literature: a Special Issue of Australian Literary Studies.
In The History of Sexuality Michel Foucault describes the emergence of a modern form of power-knowledge, built around the administration of bodies and the management of life, and distinguishes it from an older form of sovereign power: “the ancient right to take life or let live was replaced by a power to foster life or disallow it to the point of death.” It is a formula that has subsequently informed work on everything from health care to genocide. Partly through the influence of Giorgio Agamben’s work on “bare life” and Achille Mbembe’s work on “necropolitics,” it also plays an increasingly important role in redescriptions of colonialism and its legacies, even as the relationship between sovereignty and biopolitics has been sharply debated.
What is the historical relationship between literary discourse and biopolitical practice? How useful is the notion of biopolitics for a general sense of literary history, and for work in specific colonial and postcolonial contexts? How might it change our sense of the archive, or question prevailing modes of periodization? How might it help us connect the colonial past to the global present?
Topics might include (but certainly aren’t limited to) narratives of invasion and extinction, regimes of protection and assimilation, fictions of hybridity and miscegenation, the relationship between sexuality and sovereignty, the nation as a biopolitical category, and broader discourses on race, citizenship, public health, immigration, security and border control.
Final submissions would be due by February 1, 2011. Please send papers and enquiries to Andrew McCann at Andrew.McCann@Dartmouth.Edu
The Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and Deakin University now host Altitude: An e-journal of emerging humanities work.
The chief editors are Dr Clifton Evers, Dr Emily Potter and Dr Glen Fuller.
Altitude is being re-launched in 2010 with an expanded multi-media and creative scholarly publishing agenda.
The first issue of the new Altitude is going to be an open issue, with no special theme. Word length is 4000 words. Deadline for abstracts for next issue is 30 May, 2010. Full draft required by 30 August, 2010. Publication will be late 2010.
Altitude aims to be an accessible, supportive, creative and rigorous way to develop emerging scholar's academic writing skills, and to enable emerging scholars to receive constructive criticism of their research by experts in their field. Altitude advocates an open review policy rather than a blind review policy in the interests of accountability and collegiality.
About the journal:
Altitude is a peer-reviewed journal of emerging innovative and creative work in the humanities. Altitude is committed to the democratisation of writing, research and knowledge, and to experimentation with new journal practices. It brings emerging and experienced scholars into discussion with writers and thinkers outside the academy. We use web-based open-access technologies (includes audio and visual material), and to extend the parameters of intellectual exchange.
After enthusiastic recruiting the editorial advisory board of Altitude now includes the following prestigious senior academics: Professor Catharine Lumby; Professor Gerard Goggin ; Professor Graeme Turner; Professor Meaghan Morris; Professor Grant Farred; Professor Elspeth Probyn; Professor Ien Ang; Professor Larry Schehr; Professor Catherine Driscoll; Associate Professor Greg Hainge.
Altitude accepts articles, video, sound, and images for the peer review process.
Editors review abstracts, initial screenings and listenings, and copy-edit. Peer-Reviews are subject to double review. The journal is reviewed by the editorial advisory board.
Call for Contacts with Student Researchers from Gregory Evon, Secretary for KSAA (Korean Studies Association of Australasia).
KSAA is a non-political, academic association which, together with the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), seeks to serve as a regional association of scholars interested in Korea representing all academic disciplines. For more information regarding KSAA, please visit: www.ksaa.net.
Our current project is to compile a list of all research students in Australia interested in who we are and what we do in the hopes that the data will further our capacity to fulfil our goals. With having a greater grasp at the numbers and demographics of people interested we can more adequately provide the research support and training, (including workshops) which are sorely needed. We can also use this information to assess the need to expand scholarship programs such as with the upcoming all-expenses paid postgraduate workshops in Sydney and our regular short-term field trips to Korea.
If you could assist us by forwarding the attachments (below) to any postgraduate or honours students you know who are studying fields to do with Korea, or who may wish to pursue their respective fields in Korea, we would greatly appreciate it.
Dr. Gregory N. Evon, Secretary
Korean Studies Association Australasia
Korean Studies & Japanese Studies
School of Languages and Linguistics
The University of New South Wales
UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052
Australia
Directed by renowned storyteller, photographer and performer William Yang and producer/writer Annette Shun Wah.
Monday 3 May at 8.00pm
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY
Belvoir St Upstairs Theatre
25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills Sydney
Six storytellers confront their family skeletons to flesh out the stories of the here and now. Accompanied by images from private collections, they reveal engaging and moving insights into family, identity, ambition, confusion and determination.
Daphne Lowe Kelley’s mother leaves the family village for the first time, crossing oceans in search of a missing husband. Father, now a lingerie salesman, didn’t know what was coming….
Poet Mary Tang’s Chinese horoscope predicted she would bring bad luck, so her family gave her away. She recounts the many ways in which she is lucky to be alive.
Choreographer/performer Paul Cordeiro’s mother almost had him convinced of their English ancestry, until his aunty said: “but look at our eyes”. How does he deal with being “not exactly Chinese”?
Actor/writer Joy Hopwood relates her arduous, but often hilarious quest – to become a Playschool presenter.
Malaysian-Chinese actor Teik-Kim Pok explores his boyhood fascination with the west within a family characterised by niggles between middle class relatives and the “country hicks”.
Visual artist Mai Long’s artwork ignited controversy for some in Sydney’s Vietnamese community, but brings her a better understanding of her family, particularly her dad, who was “not a communicator”.
Tickets: $25 (Concessions $20) Bookings:www.belvoir.com.au or 02 9699 3444
Asialink Dunlop Medalist and distinguished international relations scholar, Professor Nancy Viviani, addresses the "Big Country" immigration debate. We haven't thought enough about the social and economic impact of the latest anticipated increases in immigration, she says - the 'explosive' mix created when a relatively low-skilled local population comes under pressure from high levels of more skilled migration. Treasury, she says, thinks it is cheaper to free-ride on the educational investments by other countries in our migrants, while failing to properly build our own skill levels.
From as early as 1973 - the year the White Australia Policy was finally abolished - and continuing today, Professor Nancy Viviani's work has reflected an aspiration and an optimism that Australia will "beat history" and avoid the racial tensions and conflict endemic in other multi-racial societies.
Celebrate the opening of a brand new gallery space in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. Bringing together over thirty years of experience as well as a fresh focus on Asia Pacific contemporary art work, welcome Melbourne International Fine Art (MiFA).
MiFA directors Bryan Collie and Mikala Tai invite you to the opening of MiFA’s inaugural exhibition, Asia Now.
11.00 Tai Chi Performance
11.30 and 2.30: Talks by artists including AASRN member Mayu Kanamori and Lucy Dann, Pia Johnson, Sara Lindsay and consultants Santy Saptari and Deborah Salter.
The Myer Foundation Arts and Humanities Small Grants Program
The current priority areas for this scheme include:
To build capacity of the individual through ensuring that professional artists gain access to training, development and mentoring.
Develop new works by individual Australian artists and small and medium-sized organisations in the following areas: Indigenous arts; Regional areas; and Experimental and emerging art forms.
Projects that support the Humanities, particularly those that contribute to a broad understanding of and engagement with the Humanities.
The program does not fund travel and accommodation costs or the purchase of equipment. The closing dates for expressions of interest are: 28 April 2010, 28 July 2010, and 29 September.
Filmed by Doan Nguyen, Vietnamese Australian around Brisbane.
Free screening: Sunday 18 April 2010, 2pm
at the Schonell Theatre,
University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Home of Strangers is a feature film, professionally made by UQ staff and students in 2009 to raise funds to support an orphanage in Vietnam. The film premiered at the Schonell and then Melbourne in August 2009. Special DVD releases will be available with the Director's cut, behind the scenes, and interviews.
