<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize 2015</strong></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Jo-Anne Duggan</strong>
(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’.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">To honour her memory, ACIS, with the generous support of Kevin Bayley, The Colour Factory and the editorial committee of <em>Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies</em>,
has established a biennial Jo-Anne Duggan Essay Prize to be awarded for
the first time in 2015. The aim of the Prize is to foster and expand
Jo-Anne’s rich creative, artistic and scholarly legacy in order to
maintain enquiry into the nexus between creative practice and research,
especially among younger/emerging scholars. The Prize is designed to
keep Jo-Anne’s questions alive in order to continue to learn from her
own answers.</p><p style="text-align:justify;">The details of the <strong>GUIDELINES</strong> for eligibility and submissions can be found Here: <a href="http://acis.org.au/prize/">http://acis.org.au/prize/</a></p><div></div>
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