Interdepartmental exchange commemorative project held with the University of Sydney

Arts education and research organizations are actively promoting exchange projects with overseas countries.
The exchange with the University of Sydney was formalized in 2006, building on research exchanges between art history faculty.
Agreements between departments have come to fruition, and mutual dispatch of faculty and students has been promoted.

The original agreement was with the Department of Art History and Art Theory at the University of Sydney;
Faculty training and pre-strategic initiative “Building ART (Art Resources in Tsukuba)”
To deepen exchanges with the Faculty of Fine Arts (Sydney College of the Arts) through opportunities such as
Therefore, when the exchange agreement was renewed in the fall of 2011, we decided to expand the number of exchange partners.

To commemorate the accumulation of such meaningful exchange results and further revitalization in the future, we would like to commemorate the
Art history teachers came to visit and learn about Australia, which is not well known in Japan.
We held an academic exchange meeting on modern and contemporary art.

University of Tsukuba/University of Sydney interdepartmental exchange commemorative project
“Academic Exchange Meeting on Australian Modern and Contemporary Art History”
Sunday, February 2012, 2 19:2pm - 5:30pm
Room 1, 121st floor, Bunkyo Building, Tokyo Campus, University of Tsukuba

●Introduction to the Department of Art History & Film Studies, University of Sydney
(Prof. Dr. Roger Benjamin)
●Aboriginal Art: Indigenous Identities from Papunya to “Proppa Now”
(Prof. Dr. Roger Benjamin)
●Modernism with an Australian Accent
(Dr. Anita Callaway, The Nelson Meers Foundation Lecturer in Australian Art)
●Professor Arthur Sadler and modern Japan, Sydney
(Chiaki Ajioka, Curator of “Japan in Sydney” Exhibition, University of Sydney Art Gallery)
･Moderator/Moderator: Toshiharu Ijudono (Professor, Art History Department)