Research and Study Opportunities

Pacific Arts Association at College Art Association
Announcement of Exhibition Funding Opportunities in 2010 and 2011
Deadlines: September 1 in 2008 and 2009

As an affiliated society of CAA, PAA is pleased to publicize the following exhibition funding opportunity to members and others interested in exhibiting and showcasing Pacific visual culture:

CAA invites curators to submit proposals for exhibitions whose openings coincide with upcoming Annual Conferences. The exhibitions must be held in the conference city and on view during the conference dates:
•    Chicago, Illinois, February 10–13, 2010. Deadline: September 1, 2008  read more »

Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network
Postgraduate & Early Career Researcher Workshop on Leadership and Management in Research on Asia and the Pacific 2008

Call for Applications
For further information and application procedures see: www.research.unimelb.edu.au/asiapacificfutures

About the Workshop
The workshop will be convened by Professor Vera Mackie (Australian Research Council Professorial Research Fellow) and a team of early-to-mid career researchers, postgraduates and professional staff in Asia-Pacific studies at the University of Melbourne.
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Anthropology at the Australian National University is a large and thriving graduate program. The combination of teaching and research in anthropology at the ANU, in Canberra, Australia's national capital, is the largest such constellation in Australia. Our excellent academic staff and facilities have earned us a strong national and international reputation. Many of our graduates have achieved distinction in academic and public positions and in consultancy work in Australia and overseas. You can pursue a doctorate or master's degree in socio-cultural or biological anthropology, or a Masters by coursework in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD).  read more »

Each year the Getty Foundation awards Collaborative Research Grants to scholarly teams of two or more individuals to pursue interpretive research projects that offer new explanations of art and its history. We strongly encourage collaboration between university and museum-based scholars, and project teams must include at least one art historian. Project funding typically relates to the preparation of a scholarly exhibition or publication, with the emphasis on the early stages of research. Of the ongoing and completed projects in this grant category, several may be of particular interest to members of the Pacific Arts Association.
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