Publications & lectures
Journal articles & book chapters
In press/forthcoming
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Degrowth and Form: Degrowth and Education. Nordic Studies in Education, 44(4).
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Before Oedipus and the Sphinx: Embracing samhandling beyond the school. In Torgersen, G.E., & Saeverot, H. (Eds.) Samhandling. Bergen: Sampress.
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Pilgrims and Refugees: The lost ethic of Mediterranean aesthetics. In Keller-Privat et al. Hospitality in the Mediterranean.
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Afterword. In Anxiety Culture: The New Global State of Human Affairs. Allegrante, J., et al (Eds). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Form’s pedagogical seduction. In Saeverot, A.M., Saeverot, H., Ulvik, M. & Schmidt Antun, A.G. (Eds.). Uttrykk som gjør inntrykk: Estetisk læring for helhetlig danning [Expressions that make an impression: Aesthetic learning for holistic education]. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Published
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Being and the formative. Luigi Pareyson’s pedagogical aesthetics. In Baldacchino, J. & Saeverot, H. (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Continental Philosophy of Education. London: Bloomsbury. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2024). Migrant form and art’s education: Revisiting Art’s Education. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 43(3). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2023). Rubble Walls of Contingency: Language, the self, and the Mediterranean imaginary. In Culture and Dialogue, 11(2). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2023). L-anġlu ta’ Santu Wistin. L-esperjenza formattiva fil-poetika ta’ Anton Buttiġieġ. [St Augustine’s angel. The formative experience in Anton Buttiġieġ’s poetics.] In Grech, S. (Ed.), Anton Buttġieġ: Bejn Storja U Miti. Qormi: Horizons.
Baldacchino, J. (2023). The sea as a site of curation: Reflections on aesthetics education. Hub: Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society. Special Issue 1(0). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2023). Fil-kamra li “sservina għal kollox”: Id-dinja konvivjali ta’ Charles Miceli. [In the room where “everything’s done”: Charles Miceli’s convivial world] In Grech, M. & Borg, C. (Eds.) Imħabba Militanti. Charles Miceli: L-attivist li qatt ma nesa’ għeruqu. [Militant love. Charles Miceli. The activist who never forgot his roots] Qormi: Horizons.
Baldacchino, J. (2023). A subject’s autonomy: Undidactic mediation in Georg Lukács and John Dewey. Policy Futures in Education, 21(3). View.
Baldacchino, J. & Yosef Hassidim, D. (2023). How far should we go seeking new horizons for education’s autonomy? In Policy Futures in Education. 21(3). View.
Baldacchino, J & Biddulph, J. (2022). Wilful strangers in a possible democracy. In Biddulph, J., Rolls, L. & Flutter, J., Unleashing Children’s Voices in New Democratic Education. London: Routledge. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2022). John Dewey’s Improbable Mediterraneity. In Sultana, R & Striano M. (Eds.), Dewey, Education, and the Mediterranean: Themes, Trails, and Traces. International Journal of Mediterranean Research (4). Leiden: Brill. View.
Baldacchino, J. & Abdu’Allah, F. (2022). Doing art, (un)colonized bodies: Immersing curricula in our acts of living. In Black-Hawkins, K. & Grinham-Smith, A (Eds.), Unlocking Research: Expanding inclusive learning in primary classrooms and schools. London: Routledge. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2022). Separated by a common heterodoxy. Illich, Freire and the perilous spell of radical canonicity. Espacio Tiempo y Educación, 9(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2022). To Speak Something out of Existence: Impossible Pedagogies and the Art of Unlearning. In Papadopoulos, I, et al (Eds.), International Current Trends in Applied Linguistics and Pedagogy. NOVA. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2022). Marca sem marco: Imagem, o eu, e a coisidade da pesquisa artística [Mark without boundary: Image, the self, and the thingness of arts research]. Derivas #05. Porto: University of Porto. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2021). Formative autonomy. Lessons from Elio Petri. In Baldacchino, J. & Yosef Hassidim, D. (Eds.), Education’s Autonomy. A symposium. Special Edition of Educational Theory, 71(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. & Yosef Hassidim, D. (2021). Education’s Autonomy as a Utopian Polysemic Possibility: Challenges and a Path Forward. In Baldacchino, J. & Yosef Hassidim, D. (Eds.), Education’s Autonomy. A symposium. Special Edition of Educational Theory, 71(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2021). “Squaring” art’s educational quandaries. Studies in Art Education, 62(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2020). Education’s experience in an age of anti-politics. Reading John Dewey in the third decade of the 21st century. Sisyphus: Journal of Education. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2020). Art is (not) experience: Engaging Dewey in reverse. In Maarhuis, P. & Rud, A.G. (Eds.), Imagining Dewey: Artful works and dialogue about Art as Experience. Leiden: Brill. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2020). A “most amiable union”: The ethics of art’s practice as a pedagogical aesthetics. Buschkühl, C. et al. (Eds.), Art-Ethics-Education. Leiden: Brill. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2019). Pranks, tropes and raspberries: The dialogic demeanour of satire’s creative horizon. Culture and Dialogue 7(46-60). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2019). Introduction. Volume 1: Philosophies and Histories. The International Encyclopedia of Art and Design Education, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2019). Demokrazija, Paradoss u Trasparenza: Prattika u Etika [Democracy, paradox and transparency: Ethics and practice] L-Etika fil-Politika [Ethics in Politics]. Knisja 2000, vol. 126, Oct-Dec, pp. 29-48.
Baldacchino, J. (2019). A Brief Critical Historical Analysis of Neoliberalism in Education. Confronting Educational Policy in Neoliberal Times; International Perspective. Chitpin, S. & Portelli, J. (Eds.). London: Routledge. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2018). The right to creative illegitimacy: Art and the fallacy of proprietary legitimation. The Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review. 22(1), 103-124. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2018). Resemblance, Choice and The Hidden: Mediterranean aesthetics and the political “logics” of an uncolonial subjective economy. In Critically Mediterranean: Aesthetics, Theory, Hermeneutics, Culture. Yasser Elhariry & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev (eds). Palgrave Macmillan. View.
Baldacchino, J. & Biesta, G. (2017). Weak subjects: On art’s art of forgetting. An interview with John Baldacchino. Interviewed by Gert Biesta. Arts, Artists and Pedagogy. Chris Naughton et al (eds.) London: Routledge. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2017). The travails of criticality: Understanding Peter McLaren’s revolutionary vocation. An article-review of Peter McLaren, Pedagogy of Insurrection. Policy Futures in Education. Policy Futures in Education 0(0) 1–16. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2017). Freedom, aesthetics, and the agôn of living in Maxine Greene’s philosophy. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 39:1, 18-38. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2017). Art’s Ped(ago)gies: Education is not art. Art is not education. In jagodzinsky, j. (Ed.), What is Art Education? Essays after Deleuze & Guattari. Palgrave Macmillan. View.
Baldacchino, J. & Chircop, J. (2017). Revolution and the politics of imagination: the aesthetics of revolution. In Economic crises and socio-political changes: Protest movements, Insurrections and Revolutions throughout History. Crises économiques et changements sociopolitiques: Mouvements de contestation, Insurrections et Révolutions à travers l’Histoire. Ibrahim Muhammed Saadaoui (Ed.). Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development. Tunis: University of Tunisia.
Baldacchino, J. (2015). Educing Art’s Indescribable Practice: Four theses on the impossibility of arts research. Derivas: Investigação em Educação Artística, 2, 97-105. View.
Baldacchino, J 2015, ART ± EDUCATION: The paradox of the ventriloquist’s soliloquy. Sisyphus: Journal of Education, 3(1), pp. 55-71. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2015). Art’s foreignness as an ‘exit pedagogy’. In Art’s Teachings, Teaching’s Art: Philosophical, Critical, and Educational Musings. Tyson E. Lewis and Megan J. Laverty (Eds.). Springer. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2015). The metier of living: Art, genocide and education. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(6), 494-503. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2014). Response to Walter Gershon’s Review of Art’s Way Out. Studies in Philosophy and Education. December. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2014). Art’s asymptotic leadership: Arts leadership, education and the loss of autonomy. Visual Inquiry. 3(3), September, pp. 291-305(15). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2014). Art, Paralogy and Education. In conversation with Kenneth Wain’s philosophical interlocutors. In Baldacchino, J. Galea, S. Mercieca, D. (Eds.), My Teaching, My Philosophy. Kenneth Wain: A Lifelong Engagement with Education. Peter Lang. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2014). Art’s false “ease”. Form, meaning and a problematic pedagogy. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 33, 433-450. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2013). What creative industries? Instrumentalism, autonomy and the education of artists. International Journal of Education through Art 9: 3, pp. 343–356. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2013). Thalassic Lessons. Pedagogical aesthetics and the Mediterranean. In Baldacchino, J. & Vella R. (eds.) 2013. Mediterranean Art and Education. Navigating local, regional and global imaginaries through the lens of the arts and learning. Special Edition of the Mediterranean Journal of Education Studies. Sense Publishers. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2013). A questioned practice: Twenty reflections on art, doubt, and error. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 14(Interlude 1). View.
Baldacchino, J. 2013. Willed Forgetfulness: The Arts, Education and the Case for Unlearning. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 32(4), pp. 415-430. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2012). Investment And The Divested Métier Of Arts Education. Philosophy of Education 2012. Philosophy of Education Society (US). Urbana, Illinois. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2012). Is the party over? Four paradoxes for labour politics. In Revisiting Labour History. John Chircop (ed.) Valletta: Malta. Horizons Publications.
Baldacchino, J. (2012). Proletarians. In Shooting Society: Documenting Contemporary Life in Malta. Carmel Borg & Raphael Vella (eds.) Valletta: Midsea Books.
Baldacchino, J. (2012). Sobre «Un perro que muerde su cola»: El desafío de Gramsci a la sociología del conocimiento. In Gramsci y la Educación. Borg, Buttigieg, Mayo (Eds). València: Ediciones del CREC.
Baldacchino, J. (2012). ‘Relative Ignorance’: Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci’s concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for power. In D. R. Cole, L.J. Graham (Eds.), The Power In/Of Language. Wiley-Blackwell.
Baldacchino, J. (2011). Scholarship and art’s ambiguous objects. Preface in Gary Jim Daichent. Artist Scholar: Reflections on Writing and Research. Intellect.
Baldacchino, J. (2011). ‘Relative Ignorance’: Lingua and linguaggio in Gramsci’s concept of a formative aesthetic as a concern for power. Educational Philosophy & Theory. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2010). Mill-għażla għall-ħelsien. Milani, l-imgħallem li jgħallem. [From Choice to Freedom. Milani, the master who teaches.] In Borg Carmel (ed.) Milani. Bejn ilbieraħ u llum. [Milani. Between now and then]. Valletta, Malta. Qormi: Horizons.
Baldacchino, J. (2010). Asymptotes: On the paradox of a supplemented omission. In Diggle, Jeremy. Apoll8. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2009). What lies beyond the Bauhaus? The political ‘logics’ of college art pedagogy. Australia Art Education, Vol. 32 N.1.
Baldacchino, J. (2009). Opening the picture: On the political responsibility of arts-based research. International Journal for Education and the Arts, 10. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2009). Learning with art, outwith the school: Stumbling upon Adami’s lines, inside Serra’s sequence. In Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education: The Way Forward. Hervé Varenne, Edmund W. Gordon, and Linda Lin (eds.). (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press).
Baldacchino, J. (2008). The praxis of art’s deschooled practice. International Journal of Art & Design Education vol. 27. no. 3. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Salvaging what ‘we’ never lost. Art, site and the virtual in the Maltese imaginary. In Vella, R. (Ed.), Cross-Currents: Critical Essays on Art and Culture in Malta. Valletta: Allied Publishers.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Between The Ironic And The Irenic: Is happiness «suspended» in contemporary art? Analecta Husserliana vol. XCVI.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Art after beauty: values before standards. Analecta Husserliana vol. XCVII.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). “The Power To Develop Dispositions”: Revisiting John Dewey’s Democratic Claims For Education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2007). The pedagogy of culture. Cultural Theory within the politics of a ‘third space’. Interactive Discourse. International Online Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Vol 1. No. 1.
Baldacchino, J. (2007). ‘Forms Of Life’: On being taken to task by art and education. In Art Education in Malta. Raphael Vella (ed.). (Valletta: Allied Publishers).
Baldacchino, J. (2006). ART(e) FACTUM: Maurizio Pellegrin: Doing fact(s), dialogando. In Writings on Maurizio Pellegrin 1980-2006 Rubbini, Alice (ed.) (SKIRA, Milano).
Baldacchino, J. (2005). Hope in groundlessness: Art’s denial as pedagogy, Journal of Maltese Educational Research, 3(1). View.
Baldacchino, J. (2005). Between illusions: Art’s argument for “Weak” Reality’, Analecta Husserliana, vol. LXXXVII.
Baldacchino, J. (2004). The covergent ‘I’: Empathy as an aesthetic category’, Analecta Husserliana vol. LXXXIII. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2002). The Metaphysics of Childhood. Children in the art of Carrà and De Chirico. The John Darling Lectures 2002-3, Faculty of Education, University of Aberdeen, November 6. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2002). On “a dog chasing its tail” Gramsci’s challenge to the sociology of knowledge. In Gramsci and Education. Carmel Borg, Joseph A. Buttigieg, Peter Mayo (eds.). (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
Baldacchino, J. (2001). Contemporary Music and the Question of Aesthetic Identity. Intercultural Music, Vol. 3.
Baldacchino, J. (2000). Sapide di sale nostalgico: Note sull’estetica e la pedagogia del Mediterraneo. In “Un Mare di Opportunità”: Cultura e Educazione nel Mediterraneo del III Millenio. Giovanni Pampanini (ed.). (Armando Editore: Roma).
Baldacchino, J. (1997). Imposing Freedom: The Cultural Game of ‘Adult Education’. In Beyond Schooling: Adult Learning in Malta. Godfrey Baldacchino, Peter Mayo (eds.). (Mireva Publications, Malta).
Baldacchino, J. (1994). From ‘African Pianism’ to a New Commonwealth of Interculturalism. An Analytical Review of Akin Euba’s Modern African Music and Joshua Uzoigwe’s Akin Euba, An Introduction to the Life and Music of a Nigerian Composer. Commonwealth Music, 1(2).
Baldacchino, J. (1994). Art’s Gaming Lost: within the make-belief of curricular certainty. Curriculum Studies, 2(3).
Baldacchino, J. (1990). An Ethereal Flute from the Mediterranean. Pan, The Journal of the British Flute Society (London), March.
Lectures, keynotes & papers
Baldacchino, J. (2024, April 29). Teaching form as a peculiar discovery. The 15th Annual Bergen Educational Conversation, Western Norway University, Bergen, Norway.
Baldacchino, J. (2022, November 1). Art’s Exiting into the World: Willed Strangers in Pursuit of Inclusion. All For the Arts, Goldsmith’s University of London, London, England. Watch.
Baldacchino, J. (2022, September 28-29). Unlearning and an indirect pedagogy. Western Norway University, Bergen, Norway.
Baldacchino, J. (2022, September 26-27). Unlearning, indirectly. Models without form. Form outwith models. The 14th Annual Bergen Educational Conversation, Western Norway University, Bergen, Norway.
Baldacchino, J. (2022, March 16). Strangers Teaching Art. Guest lecture at Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education course, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2022, February 23). Art as Unlearning. Guest Lecture Series Event: In Conversation with John Baldacchino (Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel, moderator), Royal Academy of Dance, London, England.
Baldacchino, J. & Saeverot, H. (co-conveners) (2021, December 13). The 13th Annual Bergen Educational Conversation. Western Norway University, Bergen, Norway.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, November 2). Rubble Walls of Contingency: Language, the Self, and the Mediterranean Imaginary. Institute of Mediterranean Studies, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, October 21). Not a lecture on Gramsci. Faculty Colloquium public lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, May 14). On art’s isness. Lecture for Research Institute in Art Design and Society. I2ADS, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, May 7 & 14). Five Pedagogies. On art’s teaching. Research Institute in Art Design and Society. I2ADS, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, May 4). A site of gaps. The sea as a place of “odd” curation. The Malta Review of Educational Research Lecture Series, Faculty of Education, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. & Yosef Hassidim, D. (2021, April 9). Showing, Active Autonomy and the case for STE(A)M. AERA Annual Meeting.
Baldacchino, J. (2021, April 9). Formative Autonomy: The arts as an agôn of difference. AERA Annual Meeting.
Baldacchino, J. (2020, September 5-6). To speak something out of existence: (Im)possible pedagogies and the art of unlearning. International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century, Larissa, Greece.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, December 12-13.). Bent time in a defied space: On grappling with art’s “diminishing recurrence”. Doctoral Lecture and Seminars, Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, December 11). Estética formativa e a contradição do ensino | Formative aesthetics and the contradiction of teaching. Masters Lecture and seminars. Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, April 15). Between esquecer and olvidar. On (de)memorialising art’s objects. Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, April 12). Uncreative anticipations. Can art unlearn education? Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, 30 March). Doing nothing rather than something: The paradox of autonomy, art, and education. Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference. New College, Oxford, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2019, March 15). Formative Autonomy, Education’s Autonomy Symposium.Philosophy of Education Society, 75th Annual Meeting, Richmond VA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2018, March 14). Mediterranean aesthetics and the uncolonial. Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2018, March 16). Beatified Lies: Make-belief and truthfulness in the democratic imaginary. Annual Philosophy Sharing Lecture. Hotel Phoenicia, Valletta, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, December 15). Mannerist Turns: Art’s demeanour as method and teaching. Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, November 30). Academia, the Art School and the challenges of contemporary art practice(s). Colloquium Lecture. History of Art Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, October 27). The right to creative illegitimacy: Art and the fallacy of proprietary legitimation. In The Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review Fall Symposium on Innovation in Wisconsin. Marquette University Law School, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, October 23). Jewish Heritage of Malta: The making of a Mediterranean island-nation. Leo & Julia Forchheimer Auditorium and Paul S. & Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall. Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, October 19). Arts research and the future of the art school. Crossing Boundaries: The 54th Annual Conference of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, September 13). (Un)doing arts pedagogy. Visiting Artist Colloquium. Art Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Baldacchino, J. & Diggle, J. (2017, 5 July). Doing art’s elastic narrative(s): Risk and unlearning as art’s pedagogical practice. 8th ELIA Academy: What’s going on Here? Exploring Elasticity in Teaching and Learning in the Arts. Central St Martins, London, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, April 7). An equality that excludes: Art, education and the dialectic of emancipation. Global Inequality, Global Education Conference, School of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2017, February 10). Escapologies: Art as an Exit Pedagogy. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2016, August 23-26). Busoni and Boccioni: Artists, radicals and teachers of Modernism. The European Conference on Educational Research Leading Education: The Distinct Contributions of Educational Research and Researchers, Dublin, Ireland.
Baldacchino, J. (2016, November 4-5). Resemblance, Choice, and the Hidden: Mediterranean Aesthetics and the Political “Logics” of an Uncolonial Subjective Economy. Critically Mediterranean Roundtable Symposium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, December 5). On Adorno: Aphoristic conversations. Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, December 3-4). Approaching Method(s) in the Arts. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, March 23). A chiasmic affair. Key note lecture. 3rd Encounter on Practices of Research in Arts Education. Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, 19-20 March). teaching:making<>[art]<>making:teaching. Four Doctoral Seminars, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, February 7). Painting Maxine’s Murals: Freedom and the aesthetic imaginary in a period of transition. Keynote Lecture for The Middle Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society. 2015 Annual Conference. Guttman Community College Centre at CUNY, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2015, January 23-24). Resemblance, choice and the hidden: The Mediterranean and the political “logics” of an uncolonial subjective economy. Thalassic Imaginaries: the Mediterranean Sea in Language, Art and Other forms of representation. Mediterranean Institute. University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2014, November 26). On Being Foreign: art’s disposition as an exit pedagogy. Institute of Education, University of London, London, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2014, April 3-7). Art’s democratic practice beyond redemptive models of education. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2014, January 22-24). Art±education: as a method of the more or less. 2nd Encounter on Practices of Research in Arts Education, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2014, January 10). Within the Outwith: Undoing Art, Unlearning Education. Professorial Talk, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2013, October 29). Forgetting, undoing and unlearning: Practicing the arts in education. School of Education, Social Work & Community Education, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2013, September 23-24). Subjective forms and undidactic mediation: Art, experience and subjectivity in Lukács and Dewey. The 5th Annual Bergen Educational Conversation: Self, Identity, Subject: Reconsidering the ‘who’ of Education. Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, Norway.
Baldacchino, J. (2013, March 16). «The working class will go to heaven!» Leaving education’s polis in search of a politics of autonomy. Philosophy of Education Society (USA) Conference, Portland, OR. USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2013, February 2). Art as Unlearning: finding a place. University of the West of Scotland. Artist Teacher Programme, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, November 8-10). «Fishing, Finding and Playing» Seminars on Arts Research. «i2ADS» Instituto de Investigação em Arte, Design e Sociedade [Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society]. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. & Chircop J. (2012, November 28-30) Revolution and the politics of imagination: the aesthetics of revolution. [La Révolution et la politique de l’imagination: l’esthétique de la revolution]. IIIrd International Symposium of the Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies, Monastir, Tunisia.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, October 19-20). Forget the flow of creation! Democracy as art’s educed dispute. 3rd IJADE and NSEAD Research Conference, Liverpool John Moores Art and Design Academy, Liverpool, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, October 5). Lecture on influence and the canonical in Peter Sant’s film I Yam what I Yam … L’invenzione. Private Screening and Seminar, St James Cavalier, Valletta, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, September 20). Educing Art’s Indescribable Practice: Four theses on the impossibility of arts research.Research on Arts Education: Discomforts and Urgencies. European Educational Research Association Conference, University of Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, May 24). The virtue of art’s extents: Sustaining a product that refuses to be produced. Art’s Virtual Extents. On the practices of research and teaching in contemporary creative arts. Falmouth University, Cornwall, UK.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, April 4). Art’s false ease: Aesthetics’ ethics and the pedagogy of a “problem”. Key Note Paper to be given to the IInd International Encounter On Arts Education (2EI_EA), Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. Porto, Portugal.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, March 29). Willed Forgetfulness: The Arts, Education and the Case for Unlearning. Philosophical Approaches To Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, February 22). Sharing the Paradox: How ‘Mediterranean’ is Mediterranean Aesthetics? College Arts Association 100th Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2012, March 26). Investment And The Divested Métiers Of Arts Education. Philosophy of Education Society (USA) Conference. Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2011, December 13). Doing Arts Pedagogy. Students as Partners in Learning Conference, Falmouth University, Cornwall, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2011, October 8). Caging the Cuts (With Apologies to Mr Cage!). Reviewing (3) Blackmountain College: John Cage’s Circle of Influence, University of North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2011. November 30). Citizens of Barbarians? Notes on art’s re-drawn polity. Lecture Series, Falmouth University, Cornwall, England.
Baldacchino, J., Biesta, G. & Bingham C. (2011, March 25). Jacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation (Book Panel). Philosophy of Education Society (USA) Conference, St Louis, MO, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2010, October 1). Is the (historical) Party over? Labour, the Left and the “moral question”. Revisiting Labour History. Aula Magna, University of Malta, Valletta Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2009, March 27). Risking the Aesthetic. Paul Standish (respondent). Institute of Education, University of London, England.
Baldacchino, J. (2009, March 16). On The Arts’ Pedagogical Polity. Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Baldacchino, J. (2009, November 4). Art, Learning and the Politics of What?Institute For Aesthetic Research, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2008, February 21). What lies beyond the Bauhaus? The political ‘logic’ of college art pedagogy. College Art Association (CAA) Annual Convention, Dallas, TX, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2008, June 18). The role of the artefact in the research process: Art, Design and Knowledge. Lecture to the School of the Arts, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Baldacchino, J. (2008, October 31). The Arts’ conversational ethics and the makings of diversity. South Asian Imaginaries Symposium, Conversations Across Cultures, Centre for Educational Outreach and Innovation, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2008. Critical Theory As Studio Pedagogy: Contemporary Art’s Critical Challenge To Art Schools. National Art Education Association convention, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. & jagodzinsky, jan. (2008). Arts Class, Social Class: Returning The Political to Contemporary Art Education. National Art Education Association convention, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2007, June 20). Post-Marxism and Post-Marxist aesthetics. Lecture to The Institute of Marxian Studies, Renmin University of China, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Baldacchino, J. (2007). Outwith the school. Theoretical Perspectives on Comprehensive Education Symposium, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2007, October 11-13). Art’s Political Anomaly: “Impasse” As Revolution. 33rd Annual Conference of Social Theory Politics and Art, New York University, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2007, March 16). Art’s Deschooled Education: A Revaluation of Art Education in View of Contemporary Art. National Art Education Association Annual Convention, New York, NY, United States.
Baldacchino, J. (2007, February 13). Art and Education: Parallel Philosophies, Shared Practices. The University of Paisley (now University of the West of Scotland), Blantyre, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2006, March 3). Practice’s perversion of praxis: art, education and the sociology of knowledge. Ways of Knowing in Educational Research Conference, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2006, June 21). Post-Marxism. Lecture to The Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Baldacchino, J. (2006, May 26-27). Between The Ironic And The Irenic: Is happiness “suspended” in contemporary art?. 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts: The Happy Choice: Measure Or Excess?. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2006, May 12-13). Art’s transient illusion: word, image and space in the work of Antoni Tàpies. The Scottish Word and Image Group International Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2005, November 7). Politics as Research. Ways of Doing: Exploring the Methodological boundaries of research in the Arts and Humanities, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY, USA, 7th November.
Baldacchino, J. (2005, May 27-28). Art after beauty: values before standards. International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, & Fine Arts, 10th Annual Conference: Beauty’s appeal in the Transformation of Standards for Valuation. Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. & Sullivan, G. (2005, March 7). Doing art, making philosophy. National Art Education Association Convention, Boston, MA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2004, May 14-15). Between illusions: Art’s argument for Reality. Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts with the theme Human Creation Between Reality And Illusion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. & Euba, A. (2003, August 1-4). Post-Diasporic Homecomings: Myth or Possibility? Music of the African Diaspora Conference and Festival, Churchill College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Baldacchino, J. & Diggle, J. (2003, December 6-8). Culture and the Reliquarium: Identity, the visual and truth. Culture Incorporated: Bodies Technologies Habitats, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Baldacchino, J. (2003, May 16-18). The covergent “I”: Empathy as an aesthetic category. Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Phenomenology, Aesthetics, and Fine Arts, World Phenomenology Institute with the theme Beauty, Truth, Goodness: Aesthetics at the Crossroads. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Baldacchino, J. (2003, July 8-12). Critical Theory and the rising Hybridity within the Visual Arts. Teachers’ Academy, European League of the Institutes of the Arts, Institut del Teatre and Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain.
Baldacchino, J. (2002, November 6). The Metaphysics of Childhood. Children in the art of Carrà and De Chirico. The John Darling Lectures 2002-3, Faculty of Education, University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2002, May 11). Modernity’s Children: Rousseau’s L’enfant au polichinelle (1903) and Carrà’s Ricordi d’Infanzia (1916). 9th Annual International Aberdeen Word and Image Conference, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2002, December 5-7). Culture as jocular repetition: “use” beyond mechanical utility. UTE Culture: the utility of culture and the uses of cultural studies, Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Baldacchino, J. (2001, May 11-12). Thalassic Makings: Angelopoulos, Ungaretti and Kavafis. 8Th Annual Aberdeen International Word and Image, University of Aberdeen, Abedeen, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (2000, April 17). Aesthetics contra Aesthetics: The discursive challenge of multiculturism. 6Th Biennial International Symposium and Festival on the Theme ‘New Intercultural Music’, University of London Institute of Education, London, England.
Baldacchino, J. (1998, July 11). Prolegomena for a Future Revolution: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Che Guevara and Teresa d’Avila. Coming Down Fast Conference, Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton, England.
Baldacchino, J. (1998, October 28). Mediterranean Spectacles: The articulation of myth in the poetics of reality. Portsmouth University, Portsmouth, England.
Baldacchino, J. (1996, September). Caravaggism and Modernity. Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, England.
Baldacchino, J. (1995, October 13). What’s happening to Art in Education? Somerset College of Arts & Technology, Taunton, England.
Baldacchino, J. (1995, September 15). Luigi Nono: The sounds of Post-Modernity. The History of Ideas Week, Hampstead School, London, England.
Book reviews, arts reviews and catalogue essays
Baldacchino, J. (2018). The Warp and Weft of Timefulness. Catalogue Essay for Facets of a Community by Faisal Abdu’Allah. Camberwell Space. Camberwell College of Arts, London. 6 March – 14 April.
Baldacchino, J. (2017). Our Sea. Catalogue Essay for Lampara: A Visual Arts Project and Exhibition by Gilbert Calleja, European Commission, Berlaymont Buildings, Brussels. June.
Baldacchino, J. (2017). Concrete abstraction. Catalogue Essay for After Illusion. Exhibition featuring 6 progressive abstract painters Niamh Collins, Jeremy Diggle, Tony Plant, Clare Wardham, Simon Williams & Iain Robertston. Penwith Gallery, Cornwall 01 April – 29 April.
Baldacchino, J. (2016). Pretext: the unknown. Catalogue Essay for BIG TEN(T) UW–Madison Alumni Artist Showcase. University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Education Gallery, October 12 – December 16.
Baldacchino, J. (2013). Art’s Politics of Obscenity. Catalogue Essay for Milkshake: A Visual Arts Project and Exhibition. St James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta. March.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). The Parable of Possibility. Catalogue Essay in Richard Jochum: Intersections & Interstices. Teachers College Columbia University, New York, November.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Review of Richard Hickman, Why We Make Art and Why It Is Taught. Teachers College Record, June 10. View.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Review of Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor & Richard Siegesmund (eds.) Arts-Based Research in Education: Foundations for Practice (Routledge 2008). International Journal of Art & Design Education 27(2).
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Review of Charles R. Garoian & Yvonne M. Gaudelius Spectacle Pedagogy: Art, Politics, and Visual Culture (SUNY 2008). International Journal of Art & Design Education, 27(3).
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Immanent Exteriors. A brief reflection on Martha MacLeish’s art. Catalogue Essay in Martha McLeish: Surface Structures, Indiana University.
Baldacchino, J. (2008). Formal vindications of informal meanings / Reivindicaciones formales de significados informales. Catalogue Essay in Mary Sullivan & Boris Curatolo: Wood Meets Paper, New York and Madrid.
Baldacchino, J. (2007). Review of Charles Juwah (Ed.) Interactions in Online Education: Implications for Theory and Practice. (Routledge 2006). Interactive Discourse. International Online Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 1(1).
Baldacchino, J. (2007). Barbara Howey’s Art of the Familial. Catalogue Essay for Barbara Howey: Techniques of Memory, New York.
Baldacchino, J. (2006). To “look with”: Wei Li Zhu’s art of gentle truth. Catalogue Essay in Wei Li Zu Paintings (Aberdeen, Scotland; and Beijing, China).
Baldacchino, J. (2006). Review of Katy McLeod & Lin Holridge (Eds.), Thinking through Art: Reflections on art as research (Routledge 2006). International Journal of Art & Design Education, 25(3).
Baldacchino, J. (2006). Found in transition. Catalogue Essay in Fong, Keygobadi, Malhorta, Paterson, Pomerantz, Toledo: Found in Transition, New York.
Baldacchino, J. (2006). Erasures and Supplements: On Nancy Goldring’s Palimpsest. The Architect’s Newspaper.
Baldacchino, J. (2005). On Being with the work. Catalogue Essay in Cynthia Capriata: Bicho-Creatures (Teachers College, Columbia University, New York).
Baldacchino, J. (2005). (Hand held) On distant shores. Catalogue Essay for Peninsula Arts, Exhibition of works by Jeremy Diggle, New Zealand House, London UK, May.
Baldacchino, J. (2002). Words of Belonging: After a conversation with Leena Nammari. In Leena Nammari, Belonging (Deveron Arts Publication)
Baldacchino, J. (2002). Homecoming(s). Catalogue Essay for Homecoming(s) Multi-Disciplinary Exhibition of works by Heather Delday, Moira Macaulay, Brian Grassom and Gawain Douglas. Duff House, Banff, Scotland.
Baldacchino, J. (1997). Review of Tony Carroll, Media in Art: Classroom materials for moving media in art at Key Stage 3 (British Film Institute 1996). Journal of Art & Design Education. 16(2).
Baldacchino, J. (1992). Virtuoso Entrance of Beethoven’s Archduke’, The Higher Times Educational Supplement (London), 6.3.
Baldacchino, J. (1992). Against the myth of homogeneity. Review of John Chircop, The Left within the Maltese Labour Movement, (Mireva, Malta 1991), The Sunday Times, Malta 29 March 1992, p. 44.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). The Rhythms of Ali El Abani’s Art. The Times, Malta 28 April, p. 7.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). The Negation of Negation. The Times, Malta 10 February, p. 4.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). The Metaphysics of Chance. The Times, Malta 31 July, p. 7.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). The intransigence of the unreal. The Times, Malta, January 9.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). The Cross-roads of Mediterranean Music. The Sunday Times, Malta 17 December, p. 26.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Soundscapes at the Aula Magna. The Times, Malta 17 March, p. 6.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Post-Independence Art. The Times, Malta, January 26.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Playing Shades into forms. The Times, Malta, July 10.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Panorama of Mediterranean Music. The Times, Malta 18 December, p. 7.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). From and towards the soul. The Times, Malta, November 3.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Definitely Feminine. The Times, Malta 13 June, p. 8.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). Contrasting Movements. The Times, Malta 23 June, p. 23.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). An Inner Reality. The Times, Malta 11 April, p. 6.
Baldacchino, J. (1989). A construction behind the spirit. The Times, Malta, February 17.
Other
Baldacchino, J. (Interviewee) & Vella, M. (Interviewer). (2009). «Tango» TV Interview. One TV. Malta, March 17.
Baldacchino, J. (Interviewee) & Cherow O’Leary, R. (Interviewer). (2009). Peer Review: Research Talk Show. Podcast on Teachers College Columbia University, I Tunes U. March 14.
Baldacchino, J. (Respondent) & Greene, M. (Speaker). (2009). The 3rd Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Maxine Greene, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, March 4.
Baldacchino, J. (Workshop facilitator and presenter). (2008). Contextual and Critical Connections. Think Tank III. School of The Art Institute of Chicago. June 6-8.
Baldacchino, J. (Respondent) & Ranciere, J. (Speaker). (2008). The 2nd Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Jacques Ranciere, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, April 22.
Baldacchino, J. (Chair) & Laclau, E. (Speaker). (2007). The 1st Annual Radical Philosophies and Education Seminar: Ernesto Laclau, Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, April 11.
Baldacchino, J. (2007). Art’s paradox as with-ness and possibility. A response to David T. Hansen’s lecture ‘The idea of a cosmopolitan education as a response to a changing world’. Teachers College Columbia University, New York City, February 6.
Baldacchino, J. (Presenter) & Greene, M. (Respondent). (2005). Response to Presenters. Teachers College Columbia University Conference on Christo’s and Jean Claude’s Gates Project, Enterprising Art and Artistic Practice, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Sackler Centre for Arts Education, New York City, February 19.
Journalistic output
1983-1987: 30+ Journalistic articles in a monthly political journal Il-Ħsieb published in Malta (all listed in Malta National Bibliography, National Library of Malta, Valletta 1983-1987).
1983-87: 30 Full-length feature articles for Maltese newspapers in Maltese and English language.
Subject areas: The visual arts, aesthetics, culture, social and political theory.
2011-present: regular full-length feature articles for Maltese newspapers in Maltese and English language.