Events
Thu, 4 September 2025
3:00PM
Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Recession
Hilary Thurlow
A presentation on the influential and politically complex work of contemporary Cuban artist Tania Bruguera.
Fri, 5 September 2025
9:45AM
JW Power and Interwar Abstraction
Deborah Barnstone, Donna West Brett, Rebecca Edwards, Giles Fielke, Kate Kangaslahti, Sophie Matthiesson, Keith Rathbone, and Anthony White
A symposium exploring the radical ideas underpinning avant-garde art in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
Thu, 11 September 2025
3:00PM
Curious Reincarnations: Counter-Histories of Diem Phung Thi
Roger Nelson
A presentation on the recently recovered artist Diem Phung Thi, and on the implications of their remarkable work for art history in Southeast Asia.
Thu, 23 October 2025
3:00PM
Mughal architecture and picture postcards
Miranda Luo and Jennifer Yang
Presentations by two Art History PhD candidates on their current research.
Wed, 29 October 2025
6:00PM
Survival as Care in Hong Kong Art
Yeewan Koon
A lecture on practices of care in contemporary Hong Kong art.
Thu, 30 October 2025
3:00PM
Tracing the Plantation Archipelago in Australia and the Pacific
Dashiell Moore
A presentation on artistic and literary representations of plantations across Australia, Vanuatu and Fiji, and the archipelagic logic of power that undergirds them.
Thu, 6 November 2025
3:00PM
Visual anxiety and visual culture in early modern Europe
Katrina Grant
A presentation on the crisis of vision in early modern Europe.