Call for Papers (September 2026 and Academic Year 2027) The convenors of the Visual Studies Network invite expressions of interest from its members. In particular, we are seeking one presenter for the seminar currently scheduled between September 1 and 15. As you may already know, the seminar series is conceived as a collegial space for […]

Scope of the Issue For this open issue, the editors invite finished, original research articles on any avant-garde artist, movement, theory or practice, from any geographical or cultural context. Contributions are not limited to Europe and are especially welcome if from underrepresented regions, traditions, and perspectives. The journal approaches the avant-garde not as a loose […]

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Popular Culture, Cinema, and Gender Hilary Radner (Volume Editor), Rebecca Stringer (Volume Editor) Bloomsbury, 2026 [ISBN: 9781350523951] LINK: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/greta-gerwigs-barbie-9781350523951/ Description This volume brings together an international array of contributors to analyse Greta Gerwig’s unprecedented success, Barbie (2023), exploring how a film released in a moment of industrial crisis for Hollywood became the […]

Ngā Manu Huna: Live Broadcasts of Kiwi Calls Ngā Manu Huna: Live Broadcasts of Kiwi Calls This May and June, audiences around the world are invited to enter the nocturnal world of Aotearoa New Zealand’s kiwi. Ngā Manu Huna is a live, two-night broadcast transmitting the calls of North Island Brown Kiwi from a remote valley in […]

Tēna koutou, We warmly welcome all members of the Visual Studies Network to our 2026 Research Seminar Series. This semester, we are delighted to present three research seminars that explore perspectives in visual studies, through engagement with 3 women artists and photographers, both from New Zealand and overseas. These sessions provide an opportunity to connect, […]

2026 Research Network Seminars Series Deadline: February 13, 2026 The convenors of the Visual Studies Network invite expressions of interest from its members, with a particular (but not exclusive) emphasis on the study of visual disciplines, for our 2026 series of seminars. Preference will be given to those who regularly attend the seminar, which has been running […]

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin 5:00 pm refreshments; start 5:30 – 7:00 pm Iconographies of Civilisation and Ruins – Aotearoa New Zealand Soldiers’ Encounters with Ancient Egypt during the First World War Dr Anya Samarasinghe Letters written by Aotearoa’s soldiers stationed in Egypt during the First World […]

Semester Two, 2025

Welcome to our Research Seminars, Semester Two, 2025. Below you will find a schedule of the forthcoming presentations. In a separate post you will also be able to read a short abstract for each of these presentations. We hope to see you there and then! Ngā mihi! SCHEDULE Sponsored by Research Network in Cultures, Histories […]

First Seminar of Semester Two, 2025

Otago German Studies, Vol. 32 (March 2025) This edited volume marks the centennial of Surrealism with a focus on its ties to German culture. Essays in German and English explore the movement’s roots in German Romanticism, particularly through Novalis, and its reception by German critics and writers such as Walter Benjamin and Walter Serner. Contributors […]

CALENDAR, SEMESTER ONE, 2025

Call for Articles and Creative Work to be published in a special volume on Surrealism with an emphasis on its activities and reception in German-speaking countries. This volume on Surrealism is part of the book series Otago German Studies, edited by August Obermayer, Cecilia Novero and Peter Barton, University of Otago, Dunedin — New Zealand. […]

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Room F209, F Block, Otago Polytechnic, Forth Street, Dunedin: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm YOUNG GUNS RELOADED: RE-EVALUATING THE CONTEMPORARY MĀORI ART OF THE 1990S Ed Hanfling, Dunedin School of Art Michael Parekowhai (Ngā Ariki Kaiputahi, Ngāti Whakarongo), The Bosom of Abraham, 1999 Screen printed vinyl on fluorescent light housings Collection of the Dunedin […]