Events
Wed, 20 August 2025
6:00PM
Unfurling the Practice of Curā: Tracing Historical Claims and the Ongoing Custodianship of Letter Scrolls from Local Bazaars
Dipti Khera
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.
Thu, 4 September 2025
3:00PM
Tania Bruguera’s Permanent Recession
Hilary Thurlow
A presentation on Cuban contemporary 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.