Please submit your paper by Friday, 20 June 2025

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Symposium Date: Friday, 15th August 2025

Location: Conference to be held on Zoom, and physical venues will be provided in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne

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2025 marks the eighth year since the establishment of Asian Art Research Now, the annual postgraduate symposium organised by the Australasian Network for Asian Art (AN4AA). Over the years, this symposium has become a flagship event for the network, bringing together early-career Asian art researchers from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to share their research-in-progress with their peers and experts in the field.

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Building on last year’s symposium – which encouragingly received an ever-growing-number of presentations and audiences, and was structured around four thematic panels – this year’s symposium adopts a broad thematic focus: Re-(en)visioning the Past and Present of Asian Art. To re-(en)vision suggests an act of looking back, holding the desired promise of restoration, reclamation, and resignification by bringing to light histories once obscured, misread, or confined within prescriptive frameworks. This process unfolds organically in both art research and artistic practice today, transforming the past and, at times, re-(en)visioning what can be remembered and imagined for the future – whether in nascent or altered forms.

Our symposium invites paper submissions that examine and reconfigure the complexities and pluralities of Asian art. We especially welcome topics that engage critically with the dynamic interplay between past and present, offering fresh perspectives on how these forces shape the future of Asian art scholarship and creative practice.

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This year, the day-long symposium will again be presented in hybrid format, with in-person venues in Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney, and Melbourne, as well as online. The symposium aims to highlight and share the vitality and diversity of Asian art research undertaken by current and recent postgraduate students. It aims to foster supportive critique, feedback, and conversations across institutions and across the diverse geographies and temporalities of Asian art research.

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The symposium serves as a platform for connecting scholars and emerging academics across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It provides an opportunity to share research in progress among Asian art researchers from various backgrounds, including MA (coursework or research) students and PhD candidates in disciplines such as art history, creative practice, arts management, museum studies, heritage studies and related fields.

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For inquiries, please contact australasiannetworkasianart@gmail.com

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