Two days of public lectures, panel discussions and seminars for the initiative to establish the Australian
Institute of Art History and the VCAM, University of Melbourne. Free admission.

Day 1 Thursday 22 July, 2010
HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Time: 6pm. Evening lecture
Venue: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A, University of MelbourneParkville
Keynote lecture: “Histories of contemporary art: paradoxes, antinomies, contingencies”
Speaker: Terry Smith, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary
Art History and Theory, University of Pittsburgh

Day 2 Friday 23 July, 2010
CONTEMPORANEITY
Morning and afternoon panel discussions and public lectures
Venue: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts and Music
180 St Kilda Road Southbank.

10.00 – 12.00
WORLD- PICTURING
Keynote lecture: W.J.T. Mitchell, Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished
Service Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago.
“World Picturing in the Time of Terror and Since”
Respondents and panelists: A/Prof Charles Green, Dr Amelia
Douglas and Professor Nikos Papastergiadis

13.00 – 14.45
WORLD PICTURING, PLACEMAKING ANDCONNECTIVITY: 5 PERSPECTIVES + 5 DIALOGUES
= 100 MINUTES
Chairs: A/Professor Charles Green and Dr Daniel Palmer
Five Invited Panelists: Professor Sean Cubitt; Dr Larissa Hjorth; Professor Leon van Schaik; Dr Alex Baker; Jarrod Rawlins

15.15 – 16.45
DIALOGUE AND RESPONSE:
PROFESSORS TERRY SMITH AND W.J.T. MITCHELL
Chairs: Professor Nikos Papastergiadis and Dr Larissa Hjorth. One hour dialogue between Professors Smith and Mitchell + 30 minutes dialogue with audience.

FREE ADMISSION.
Queries contact c.green@unimelb.edu.au, coatesr@unimelb.edu.au