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School of Art Academic Wins Richest Landscape Art Prize
The Head of Sculpture at the School of Art, Wendy Teakel, was recently awarded the lucrative Country Energy Prize for Landscape Painting for her artwork Black Soil Country. Wendy’s submission was selected from 41 finalists' works. The Country Energy Art Prize is Australia’s richest annual…
21 Academic opportunities within the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences is undergoing a major staffing renewal process with 21 positions available across the College’s Schools and Centres. The positions include Professorial, Senior Lecturer and Director level in several disciplines. Professor in Australian Literature,…
Thesis on gay activism and the Australian AIDS movement wins CASS PhD publishing prize
Jennifer Power completed her winning thesis Movement, Knowledge, Emotion: Gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement in the School of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences in 2007. “My thesis is about community activism around HIV/AIDS in Australia. Specifically, it looks at the role…
Dr John Minns awarded for excellence
ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Chubb has congratulated two ANU Academics who have been recognised for outstanding contributions to student learning in the 2010 Australian Awards for University Teaching. One of these was Dr John Minns, Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin…
School of Art Bringing India into China
The School of Art – Art Theory lecturer, Dr Chaitanya Sambrani, has been appointed as the Exhibition Curator for the unique Chinese “West Heavens” Exhibition Project on display at the Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai Art Museum) from 24 October to 18 December 2010. Presented by the Shanghai…
Project Bamboo technology proposal receives funding
The board of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved funding for the Project Bamboo technology proposal. The Foundation is providing a grant of $1.293 million for technology designed to support research in the humanities. The grant covers an 18-month plan of work that will include the…
School of Art Photography student wins Bowness Photography prize
Lee Grant, has won this year’s prestigious $25 000 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize at the Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne. The photograph was selected from approximately 2,000 photographs submitted by 473 entrants. Lee’s winning work titled Mary with her daughters Aja and…