Past events
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.
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.
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, 7 August 2025
3:00PM
Unpacking the Schaeffer Library Archives
Alisa Prasnicki, Lily Tucker, and Yueqing Xu
The Schaeffer Fine Arts Library's inaugural research interns present on their work exploring and cataloguing the Library's rich art archives.
Thu, 12 June 2025
1:00PM
In sight, out of mind
Irina Harris and Alexander Howard
A lecture from psychology professor Irina Harris about the limits of conscious perception, with a response from scholar of literature and film, Alexander Howard.
Tue, 10 June 2025
6:00PM
History Projects: art's ethical engagement with the past
Chen Shuxia, Olivier Krischer, Lisa Slade, Genevieve Trail, and John Young
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.
Thu, 5 June 2025
4:30PM
Screening: Panos Aprahamian and Gohar Dashti
Gohar Dashti and Panos Aprahamian
A screening of films by artist/filmmakers Gohar Dashti and Panos Aprahamian.
Thu, 5 June 2025
11:00AM
Tending to Memory: Art, Migration, and the Politics of Labor
Panos Aprahamian, Gohar Dashti, and Hala Auji
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.
Thu, 29 May 2025
11:00AM
Authenticity & Preservation Revisited: Marginalized Practices in the Islamic Manuscript Tradition
Hala Auji
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.