Past events

Wed, 24 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #2
Leighlyn Aguilar, Taleah Rust, and Valesca de Jongh
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

Wed, 17 September 2025
12:30PM
Big Power Talks #1
Deena Loukadellis, Dominique Park, and Raha Shahidi
Big Power Talks is a series of student talks about important modernist and postmodernist works from the J.W. Power and Power Collection.

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.

Mon, 1 September 2025
9:00PM
Curating New Perspectives
A new suite of student-led exhibitions
![Geometric instruments still life, ogee panel, c. 1939 [oil on board, PW1961.119.1, Chau Chak Wing Museum]](/sites/default/files/2025-09/20250902_091310.png)
Mon, 1 September 2025
9:00PM
JW Power: Artist, Benefactor, and Legacy
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.

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.