We are in the process of compiling this list of past conferences - if you have information about them you'd like to share with us, please email info@savah.org.za.
37th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 12-14 September 2024
Host: Department of Visual Arts in the School of Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, Gqeberha
Theme: UNSETTLED: re-Collective Memories and Histories of South Africa
36th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 19-23 September 2022
Host: Department of Fine Art & Jewellery Design, Faculty of Arts & Design, Durban University of Technology, City Campus, Durban
Theme: Romancing the Stone: Lithic Ecologies & Hard Places in South African Visual Culture [Breaking Rock]
35th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 21-23 September 2021
Host: Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs and the Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus
Theme: Untold Stories
34th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 12-13 September 2019
Host: The Faculty of Informatics and Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town
Theme: Speaking with ghosts: Hauntology, memory, nostalgia and other ways of engaging with past/present/future
33rd Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 4-6 July 2018
Host: Stellenbosch University
Theme: Troubling Legacies
32nd Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 21-23 September 2017
Host: Department of Fine and Applied Arts, Faculty of the Arts, Tshwane University of Technology
Theme: Alternative and Current Visual Discourses in South Africa and the Continent
31st Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 28-31 July 2016
Host: Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, University of Johannesburg
Theme: Rethinking Art History and Visual Culture in a Contemporary Context
30th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 10-12 September 2015
Host: Centre for Visual Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg campus)
Theme: Power and Visual Culture
29th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 3-5 July 2014
Host: University of the Free State
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28th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 5-8 September 2013
Host: University of Cape Town
Theme: Visual Arts and Art History Now: What? How? Why?
27th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 4-7 July 2012
Host: University of South Africa
Theme: Visual Arts and Art History Now: What? How? Why?
Colloquium organised by South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) under the aegis of the Comité international d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA), 12-15 January 2011
Host: University of the Witwatersrand
Theme: Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South.
A SAVAH Postgraduate Symposium 1-2 October 2010
Host: University of Johannesburg
25th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 2009
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24th Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 2008
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23rd Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 2007
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22nd Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 2006
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21st Annual South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH) Conference, 8-11 September 2005
Host: Rhodes University
Theme: New Readings of Visual Culture in Southern Africa
20th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 23-25 September 2004
Host: University of Natal
Theme: New Dep(art)ures: Recent Developments in Art and Architectural Research
19th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 2003
Host: Stellenbosch University
Theme: Visual Studies in Contemporary South Africa
18th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 12-13 July 2002
Host: University of Pretoria
Theme: Current Issues in Art, Art History and Architectural History in South Africa
18th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 2001
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17th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH) 2000
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16th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1999
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15th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1998
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14th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1997
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13th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1996
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12th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1995
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11th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1995
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10th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1994
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9th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1993
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8th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1992
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7th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1991
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6th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 1990
Host: University of Cape Town
Theme: Current Perspectives in South African Art and Architecture
5th Annual Conference of the S. A. Association of Art Historians (SAAH), 17-19 July 1989
Host: University of Natal, Durban
Theme: Diversity and Interaction
