The first distinguished speaker of the Annual lecture was Dr Thomas J. Berghuis who delivered a lecture titled ‘When was Asian Art, History?’ – Collective Approaches to Contemporary Art, With Case Studies in China and Indonesia.
Dr Thomas J. Berghuis is a Lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. In 2010 Dr Berghuis became the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Art Read more.... When was Asian Art, History?
The first distinguished speaker of the Annual lecture was Dr Thomas J. Berghuis who delivered a lecture titled ‘When was Asian Art, History?’ – Collective Approaches to Contemporary Art, With Case Studies in China and Indonesia.
Dr Thomas J. Berghuis is a Lecturer in Asian Art at the University of Sydney. In 2010 Dr Berghuis became the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Art Read more.... 






On 23 October 2012, the MA Asian Art Histories Programme organised a public seminar titled Artists on the Move: Transcultural Practices in Asian Contemporary Art. It invited an international panel of academics, curator and artist to speak on a topic that is particularly relevant to art practice and discourse within the Asian context.
Transculturalism has been proposed as an approach to describe