8th February 2026
Papers are invited to explore curating as a symbiotic coproduction of research and discursive convenings with knowledge sharing outputs that include exhibitions, Researcher and Artist Residencies, Public Events, and Academic Partnerships, Affiliated Teaching posts, and more, with a focus on... Read More...8th February 2026
Papers are invited to explore curating as a symbiotic coproduction of research and discursive convenings with knowledge sharing outputs that include exhibitions, Researcher and Artist Residencies, Public Events, and Academic Partnerships, Affiliated Teaching posts, and more, with a focus on... Read More...5th February 2026
The development of digital technologies —AI, biometrics, wearables, surveillance systems, and biotech — has reshaped the body, transcending a coherent biological whole into a dynamic site formed by data, networks, and algorithmic systems. This panel addresses the urgent need to... Read More...3rd February 2026
A deep connection to specific localities remains a powerful source of identification and situated knowledge in our field. At the same time, the planetary scale of a globally interconnected ecosystem transcends the limits of the local and the jurisdiction of... Read More...1st February 2026
This panel explores eco-art-historical analysis to re-evaluate received knowledge about the place of plant lives in painting in Asia. Moving away from the art historical tradition of reading ‘iconographically’ into plants in paintings, we turn attention to the acknowledgement that... Read More...29th January 2026
Analyses of modern and contemporary art that foreground trans approaches have burgeoned in recent years, but to date, scholars working on earlier periods have been much less visible in the discussion. As such, this session invites proposals on pre-modern visual... Read More...29th January 2026
Charting the role of women in early modern printmaking is made difficult by the general erasure of women’s voices within the records of this time. In a European context, the contribution of women to visual culture was generally hidden behind... Read More...29th January 2026
This panel features contemporary artistic responses to the increasing emergence of wildfires. While a range of visual motifs can signify climate change and environmental collapse, wildfires are ‘burning bigger, hotter, faster and more often’ writes the journalist Edward Struzik. Indeed,... Read More...29th January 2026
Original artworks may technically be commodities, but they are fundamentally distinct from the vast world of consumer goods that surround them—this, at least, is the widely shared sentiment of artists, critics, curators, and historians alike. And yet the art system... Read More...29th January 2026
This panel addresses the critical and conceptual potential of the epic as a form in modern and contemporary art practices. At a time of converging and interconnected crises – climate, fascist, humanitarian – this panel asks how – and why... Read More...29th January 2026
This session explores South American biennials as underexamined dispositifs of aesthetic and political agency, with particular attention to their emergence, genealogy, and resonance beyond dominant Euro-American exhibition paradigms. Events such as the São Paulo Bienal, the Bienal de La Habana,... Read More...29th January 2026
Craft traditions from the Muslim world have often been framed through colonial and Eurocentric lenses, reducing them to exotic artefacts or static relics of a bygone era. This session seeks to disrupt these narratives by exploring and reimagining traditional crafts... Read More...29th January 2026
This session foregrounds Central Asia as a critical site of postwar cultural convergence. Rather than a distant periphery within Cold War imaginaries, Central Asia was an active meeting ground, where national ambitions, resistance movements, and visions of modernity intersected in... Read More...29th January 2026
In today’s globalised contemporary art, more artists from marginalised, formerly colonised territories are gaining global visibility. Yet, the asymmetric relationship persists, resulting in a condition where institutional power structures, often situated in the Global North, continue to dominate the production... Read More...29th January 2026
The session investigates figurative uses of plasterwork that go beyond its ornamental application. Ornamental plasterwork constitutes the majority of surviving examples from early modern times and has dominated art-historical approaches. Yet, plasterwork extends beyond its purely decorative role; its versatility... Read More...29th January 2026
This panel will explore the complex interplay of colonial wealth and industrial development in British landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Britain’s imperial reach expanded, wealth amassed through colonial exploitation fuelled drastic transformations of the British countryside, from... Read More...29th January 2026
This session investigates the convergence of landscape, mythology, and sacred geography in the formation, decay, and transformation of ruins within forested or overgrown environments globally, exploring how ecological processes: vegetal, animal, and elemental: reclaim, reconfigure, or sacralise ruins— drawing conceptual... Read More...29th January 2026
This panel invited contributions that sought to evaluate, critique and imagine feminist art history in the present moment, when noticeable gains in the representation of women artists – as well as other underrepresented constituencies – coincide with a growing tide... Read More...29th January 2026
For centuries, the territories of the eastern Mediterranean were home to the ethnically, religiously, and culturally diverse communities that comprised the Ottoman Empire. These territories simultaneously served as travel destinations for artists, antiquarians, and archaeologists seeking out the region’s ancient... Read More...29th January 2026
This session critically engages with the enduring impacts of British colonialism on cultural heritage in South Asia and its diasporas, with a specific focus on how creative practice, and particularly performance and other embodied or participatory forms, can function as... Read More...Copyright 2026. All Rights Reserved