ISFAR Events

Visions croisées: French Australian Artistic Encounters

The Institute for the Study of French Australian Relations (ISFAR)
and the Department of French and Francophone Studies, The University of Sydney

Wed 30 Sep 2026,  9.45-1pm (AEST)
Venue: The University of Sydney in person, and online

The papers in this Symposium build on the considerable evidence in recent exhibitions of the mutual interest and reciprocal influences that characterise
the fields of French and Australian art, to extend our understanding of their impact on the artistic movements in each country. Several papers take an innovative, comparative approach to the works of contemporary French and Australian artists, as they confront some of the major challenges of the world today: climate change; the Anthropocene; overconsumption and waste; posthumanism…

The keynote paper will be given by Dr Victoria Souliman, author of Australian Women, Art and the Interwar Years: Migration and Identity (2026).

Registration: Free but required. See the Programme and Abstracts

Please register your interest here:https://events.humanitix.com/french-australian-artistic-encounters

We will contact you nearer the date to confirm whether you are attending in person or online.

Enquiries: elizabeth.rechniewski@sydney.edu.au

ISFAR and AFRAN-VIC Hub are pleased to invite you to a webinar on

Re/Framing AI Across Cultures: French-Australian Perspectives on
Creative AI Implementation and Industry Innovation

Fri 29 Aug 2025, 5-6pm (AEST), Online

This presentation examines how national contexts shape generative AI development and creative implementation through a comparative French-Australian analysis. Drawing on insights from the Re/Framing AI symposium and ongoing collaborative research, we map distinct characteristics of each country’s AI innovation ecosystems, comparing industry approaches alongside grassroots development and informal creative economies. We explore how cultural differences manifest in the aesthetic reception of AI-generated media, and how cross-cultural theoretical and practical approaches converge and differ. Download the flyer.