Deadline: June 1, 2026

El Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio (CIAP UNSAM-CONICET) anuncia las IV Jornadas Internacionales de Arte y Patrimonio: “Ante la crisis: imágenes entre el registro y la agencia” a realizarse los días 9, 10 y 11 de septiembre en el Campus Miguelete. Se trata de un espacio interdisciplinario de intercambio que invita a pensar las imágenes como superficies activas de memoria, conflicto, resistencia o reparación.

Diversos procesos de mutación de las imágenes y una crisis a escala mundial y en distintos órdenes, coinciden en estos tiempos convulsos. En este sentido, las jornadas proponen explorar prácticas propias en torno de las imágenes, es decir: aproximarse a los modos en que los procesos de investigación, archivo y patrimonialización actúan sobre la preservación y visualización de imágenes en tiempos de una proliferación iconográfica infinita.

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Deadline: June 20, 2026

Este Grupo de Trabalho propõe uma abordagem transdisciplinar que articula arte, antropologia da arte, história, instituições artísticas e estudos latino-americanos, evidenciando interseções historicamente configuradas por estruturas coloniais e por epistemologias eurocêntricas. As produções artísticas latino-americanas – indígenas, afro-latino-americanas e asiático-latino-americanas – foram, ao longo de séculos, sistematicamente marginalizadas pelo cânone da História da Arte, submetidas a processos de violência colonial que resultaram no apagamento de suas culturas, tradições e formas de existência.

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Deadline: August 15, 2026

Join us for an interdisciplinary exploration grounded in art historical inquiry and critical discourse, examining the changing conditions of visuality, representation, and artistic practice in contemporary culture.

The symposium is organised by the School of the Arts, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), in collaboration with the Faculty of Creative Arts, Universiti Malaya (UM), and the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University (MMU).

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Deadline: October 30, 2026

This event will encourage academics and scholars to meet and exchange ideas and views in a forum stimulating respectful dialogue, and like our long-running events elsewhere in the world, will afford an exceptional opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking, and facilitating partnerships across national, cultural, and disciplinary borders. IAFOR was made possible, and is a response to, the forces of globalisation, and the understanding that many of the most pressing challenges, whether felt or experienced locally, would require global cooperation and action to address.

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Deadline: June 19, 2026

Just as Michel Foucault analyzed Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (1656) as a historical “mirror,” offering an age’s image of its own epistemological order, so too, Manet’s Execution of Maximillian (1867-8) offers a mirror of an essential epistemological shift in the way that power was constructed, known, distributed, and experienced in the middle of the nineteenth century. If study of Manet’s Mexican history paintings have continued to center Paris as a center of knowledge, experience, power, and attention, this 2-day workshop affords the opportunity to think about Manet’s image of imperial and nationalist power through other lenses and with other objects. The workshop will take place on January 14 & 15, 2027 in Los Angeles and Pasadena in conjunction with an exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum of the National Gallery, London’s version of Manet’s painting alongside a selection of materials related to the French occupation of Mexico in the collection of the Getty Research Institute. We invite abstracts from scholars in Mexico and Latin America, as well as North America and Europe whose research and interest open up new avenues for situating Manet’s painting within the broader histories of art, empire, visual culture, and material culture in the nineteenth century. Topics might include: Mexico before the Battle of Puebla (1862); Mexico under Bonaparte (1862-7); critical historiographies and new historical approaches attending to the prospective and retrospective constructions of Mexican and global power; new histories of photography. Our workshop will expand into an edited volume that critically rethinks the exigencies of this period as well as Manet’s painting from a variety of perspectives. With this aim in mind, we plan to reconvene the volume’s contributors for a final workshop of papers in Summer 2027 in Los Angeles.

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Deadline: June 5, 2026

Art and Human Rights are distinct disciplinary fields, yet they intersect and are articulated through cultural production, contributing to an understanding of political and social transformations in contemporary society. In this context, this symposium proposes a reflection on contemporary artists whose practices lie at the intersection of art and human rights. In different contexts and countries, there is a growing engagement of artists with political, social, climate, and humanitarian issues. The recurring crises of the global economy, as well as armed conflicts resulting in massive migration flows—especially in Europe and the United States—have driven artistic practices focused on activism. As the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei states, his work is inseparable from his activism, a position that has inspired many artists to address themes such as identity, origin, division, race, and conflict.

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Deadline: June 15, 2026

In a rapidly transforming global context, World Heritage sites face increasingly demanding challenges: urban pressures, mass tourism, climate change and growing needs for adaptation to new uses and functions. These realities call for integrated, interdisciplinary management strategies oriented towards sustainability and resilience, acknowledging the interdependence between nature and culture and the dynamic character of listed heritage.

It is within this framework that this congress seeks to open a space for critical reflection and the sharing of experiences on decision-making processes, the principles that ought to guide interventions, and the responsibilities incumbent upon States Parties, professionals, institutions and communities alike. We invite researchers, practitioners and decision-makers to contribute papers that explore, question and enrich the debate surrounding the protection and valorisation of World Heritage.

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Deadline: May 28, 2026

The panel "Contested Heritage: Interpreting, Deconstructing, and Restitution Practices through Interdisciplinary Perspectives” proposes a critical reflection on the concept of cultural heritage, understood as a multifaceted, unstable, and often contested category. Although most operational definitions stem from a Western perspective, a central question remains: who decides what counts as heritage, and on the basis of which worldviews, identities, and power relations? Heritage can serve as a tool for identity and community-building, as a device for shared representation, but also as a means of exclusion, domination, or intimidation. At the same time, it can foster dialogue, build bridges, and enable forms of mutual recognition.

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Deadline: Jun 15, 2026

We are witnessing unprecedented interest in African modern and contemporary art through surging sales, increased institutional recognition, and the emergence of new collectors. The significant growth of auction sales, art fairs, and biennales is matched by enhanced museum attention to art and artists connected to Africa. This conference explores the epistemic cultures and collecting infrastructures pertaining to African art that are emerging from contemporary market activities. The aim of the conference is to stimulate new academic discourses about African modern and contemporary art and to consolidate the growing academic focus on emerging art markets in the global south.

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The International Journal of Islam in Asia: Religion, Cultures, Histories, Connections (IJIA) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal that publishes scholarship on Islam and Muslims in Asia and the diaspora. The journal encourages exploration of the diverse expressions of Asian Islam and Muslim cultures, histories, and connections across Asia through multidisciplinary methods, bringing together fields including history, anthropology, religious studies, Islamic studies, material culture studies, art history, sociology, and gender studies.

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Brill is calling for scholars to join the team of our longstanding tradition of The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. 

We are looking for contributors who are motivated to keep up with the newest publications in their field of study and write an annual critical bibliographical survey on it. Your survey will be an invaluable resource for your fellow scholars to stay informed of what really matters and stands out. 

We currently have the following list of vacancies in your research area. Would you like to write a survey on 2024 publications onwards?  

Brazilian Literature 1500-1800 

Brazilian 20th century Literature 

Portuguese Language and Linguistics 

Portuguese 16th and 17th century literature & culture 

Portuguese 18th century literature & culture 

Portuguese 20th century literature & culture 

Lusophone Asia 

Lusophone Africa 

Brazilian Screen studies 

Galician Language and Linguistics 

Galician Literature 

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the South and Southeast Asian Popular Culture Series, published by Palgrave Macmillan. This groundbreaking series addresses the growing scholarly interest in popular culture across South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam).

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EASt is calling for book proposal submissions to publish in its Routledge series on Contemporary Asian Societies! 

Created in 2018, the series aims at providing an original and distinctive contribution to current debates on evolutions shaping societies, cultures, politics and media across Northeast and Southeast Asia.

Currently, EASt’s Routledge Collection consists of six books: four edited volumes and two monographs, including EASt members and external collaborators. Another volume is under preparation.

 We now invite proposals for book proposals and are open to submissions for single-authored, multi-authored and edited volumes.

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Exploding Galaxies press republishes lost classics of Philippine literature. In doing so, however, we realized that it is one thing to republish a novel, but quite another to revive it. Just because a work is reissued, doesn't mean that it gains new life.

We both commission writing—approaching the freshest, most interesting thinkers and writers— and consider submissions addressed to me, our Editor. It is in this vein that we ask if you may have anything lying around that you may wish to contribute to our journal, something that has not yet found a home. We aim to make it as easy as possible for the best writers to work with us, so we do not have any expectation of receiving completely new work, unless of course that may be something you wish to pursue with us. We'd be happy to explore your off-cuts, excised tangents, old drafts, extraneous miscellany, sketches, archival finds, field notes, and experiments, or anything else that you may be open to giving us.

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We are looking for book proposals in English, Spanish and Portuguese for an exciting new series on environmental humanities in the Iberian South Atlantic. We welcome submissions spanning the field in its geographical and historical breadth, from the pre-Columbian and colonial period to the present, including approaches from Amerindian and Afrodescendent perspectives.

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To be launched by the world’s largest academic publisher, the Southeast and South Asian Popular Culture series focuses on the study of popular culture in Southeast Asia (referring to Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) and South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) to meet the increased interest in the subject among scholars of various disciplines in recent years. The series is the first of its kind in that, currently, there is no book series dedicated explicitly to Southeast and South Asian popular culture.

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