The Xth International Symposium of the Pacific Arts Association is pleased to call for papers on ‘Pacific Art in the 21st Century – Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends.’
The symposium seeks to highlight issues surrounding the creation, dispersal, possession, repatriation, stewardship and interpretation of Pacific art in the 21st century
Focus of [...]
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Pacific Art in the 21st Century – Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends
Oceanic Transformations conference
3rd Conference ‘Oceanic Transformations’ Victoria University Conference Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne, 8th – 11th April 2010
Call for abstracts by 8th February 2010
The Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies (AAAPS) holds a biennial conference. The first one, "Australia in the Pacific – the Pacific in Australia" was held in January 2006 at the [...]
Michael Mel – ‘The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea’
Dr Michael Mel (University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea) ‘The arts as tools for social and cultural transformation in Papua New Guinea’
Thursday, 17 December, 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm, UTS Building 10, Level 5, Room 580
Abstract: This talk will explore the historical and contemporary role of artistic practices as a [...]
A new conversation begins, after the missionaries
Domain House proved a wonderfully theatrical setting for the initial conversations around ‘After the Missionaries’. On Melbourne’s coldest night of the year, a few brave souls ventured through the howling winds and rain, into the gloom of the domain, past the eerie Shrine of Remembrance, into what was for many years Melbourne’s centre for contemporary [...]
After the Missionaries events
These events relate to the ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink, which includes articles about how artists are negotiating their paths through a more reciprocal world. For more information go here.
10 June FORUM Has the world changed?
Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other?
Is Australia moving away [...]
After the Missionaries
Please note the following events related to ‘After the Missionaries’ issue of Artlink.
FORUM Has the world changed?
Has the Kyoto Protocol changed how rich and poor countries relate to each other?
Is Australia moving away from the Anglosphere?
Is the Global Financial Crisis a time to look at alternative economic models?
Is ethical the new black? [...]
Planet Bollywood
The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network invites you to its third seminar in 2009: Anjali Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India): “PLANET BOLLYWOOD” DATE: Thursday, 28th May TIME: 12.00 [...]
Nikos Papastergiadis considers a ‘spherical consciousness’
Nikos Papastergiadis is Professor of Cultural Studies and Media & Communications at the University of Melbourne. His recent publications include Spatial Aesthetics: Art, Place and the Everyday (Rivers Oram Press, 2006), Metaphor + Tension: On Collaboration and its Discontents (Artspace Publications, 2004) and The Turbulence of Migration (Polity Press, 2000). He has taught at the [...]
Ex Plus Ultra post-colonialism
From the University of Sydney comes a new postgraduate journal Ex Plus Ultra, which means ‘nothing further beyond’.
The journal sets out to question the categories of ‘colonial and ‘post-colonial’:
There was no cataclysmic rupture heralding the arrival of the ‘post-colonial’ nor was the advent of colonialism defined, uncontested or in some cases even as significant [...]
Indian Ocean themes
Workshop themes have been released for Intercolonial Networks; Oceanic Circulations: Re-Thinking The Indian Ocean, University Of Technology Sydney 11 – 13 March 2009
Subaltern and creole connections across imperial boundaries
Islands in the ocean as sites of heightened connectivity
The dissemination of knowledges, especially via printing presses using vernacular languages
Comparisons and insights from Atlantic studies
The [...]
