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18
Apr
2023

Brenda L. Croft and Aidan Hartshorn—Murrudha : Sovereign walks

Seminar

Join us for Brenda L. Croft and Aidan Hartshorn in conversation about the ANU Grand Challenges project: Murrudha : Sovereign walks, tracking cultural actions through art, country, language and music The project team involves First Nations and non-Indigenous academics, who wish to be respectfully…

03
Apr
2023

Complexions / Reflections: Cosmetics, Adornment, Disfiguration

Conference

Looking in a mirror is never a neutral act. This conference offers an opportunity to reflect on changing ideals of beauty through an examination of a range of visual, material, and medical representations of the manipulated human body. It will seek to debunk the myth that beauty is ‘natural’ by…

21
Mar
2023

Karo Moret-Miranda - Tracing the black feminine body through art

Seminar

Join us for a presentation by Karo Moret-Miranda, Jean Monnet Scholar/Associate Lecturer at the Australian National University School of History Tracing the black feminine body through art: The Afro-Atlantic stories that helped build the Modern World Dr Karo Moret-Miranda is an Afro-Cuban…

21
Feb
2023

TOWNHALL: Art History and Curatorship Student Consultation

Art forum

Please join us for a meeting to provide provide feedback on exciting updates to art history and curatorial studies programs and courses at ANU.* Zoom option available: https://anu.zoom.us/j/82971628819?pwd=Q05wenUwMlBqNlY0MTROZld4NitaQT09 The meeting will be recorded for those who are…

21
Feb
2023

Craig Middleton, Queering the Museum

Seminar

Join us for a presentation by Craig Middleton, Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia and Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University. Queering the Museum It is widely acknowledged that LGBTIQ+ lives have been historically excluded from museums. Rather than being…

22
Nov
2022

Extended Seminar: The Colour Revolution in Victorian Britain

Seminar

Room 2.02, Sir Roland Wilson Building 120, McCoy Ave, ANU, and online via Zoom. The ANU Centre for Art History and Art Theory is pleased to host this extended seminar on colour in Victorian Britain. Through presentations and discussion, we will examine colour in Victorian arts, sciences and…

10
Nov
2022

Kate Warren's upcoming public lecture at the National Library of Australia

Lecture

Dr Kate Warren, Lecturer in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, will be giving a free public lecture at the National Library of Australia. Titled "Cut-out-and-keep: Magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s", the lecture will present Dr Warren's research into…