Past events

The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library is honoured to present an exhibition "J.W. Power: Art, war and the avant-garde", curated in collaboration with the Chau Chak Wing Museum and Fisher Library, celebrating the life and legacy of JW Power.

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The first session of Screen Cultures, a new research forum focused on the forms and futures of the screen.

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Our Sydney Asian Art Series Scholar in Residence Dipti Khera unpacks the visual world of vijnaptipatra, and the little known histories of early modern and colonial India that they contain.

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The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library's inaugural research interns present on their work exploring and cataloguing the Library's rich art archives.

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A lecture from psychology professor Irina Harris about the limits of conscious perception, with a response from scholar of literature and film, Alexander Howard.

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A panel discussion on how artists and curators today are tackling the medium of history as an ethical project, featuring artist John Young Zerunge with scholar/curators Lisa Slade, Genevieve Trail and Olivier Krischer.

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A screening of films by artist/filmmakers Gohar Dashti and Panos Aprahamian.

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A roundtable discussion with artists Panos Aprahamian and Gohar Dashti, and art historian Hala Auji, about labour, migration, and identity in the context of care, the environment, and neoliberal society.

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Art historian Hala Auji presents her recent research on Qur'an manuscripts from South and Southeast Asia, and the challenges they pose to conventional understandings of sacrality and authenticity in Islamic art studies.

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A reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Schaeffer Library, one of Australia's most important fine arts collections.

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