The Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize may be of interest to Honours, Masters and PhD students as well as Early Career Academics.
Due date for essays and/or creative works with exegesis: 1 March, 2015.
Prizes include:
- $1000 for the winning essay; $250 for two highly-commended essays
- Winning entry will be offered publication in the prestigious journal: Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
- Winning and two highly-commended entrants will be invited to present their submissions at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) biennial conference, The University of Sydney, 1-4 July, 2015.
Further information and Guidelines on the competition can be found of the ACIS homepage: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggan-essay-prize.
Jo-Anne Duggan (1962-2011) was a great artist and a great friend of the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS). Her artistic practice left what is arguably the richest and most compelling recent collection of photographs by an Australian artist to engage with Italian culture, history and art. Her work demonstrates not only artistic rigour and depth but also remarkable breadth, spanning from public spaces/places of Italian diaspora in Australia to enquiries into the re-contextualisation and museification of Renaissance art, from Australian archives of Italian migration to complex case studies on the legacy of the Gonzagas. In her research-led and interdisciplinary endeavour, Jo-Anne asked crucial questions and opened up original paths with regard to the construction of space/place, our relationship with the past and its reception, and the role of photographic art in mobilising and questioning the viewer’s gaze, starting from what she called her ‘postcolonial eye’.
Jo-Anne Duggan’s photographic work can be found at: http://www.colourfactory.com.au/gallery/artists-in-our-stockroom/jo-anne-duggan.
Jo-Anne Duggan’s publications (selection) can be found at: http://acis.org.au/jo-anne-duggans-writings.
