Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 28-30 May 2025
SPECIAL FOCUS: The Art of Hospitality
“The Art of Hospitality” invites explorations of the possibilities and limits of hospitality, belonging, and gathering through human and non-human entities, mobile and fixed bodies, temporary and permanent spaces. The sites, gestures, acts, and relationships of welcoming or gathering contain power dynamics that reflect financial, social, political, speculative, or imagined currencies, often with burdens and expectations of reciprocity and gratitude. Sites and gestures of hospitality can be found in life, work, art, architecture, design, theater, performance, leisure, and study: these places and acts invite and even demand critique. “The Art of Hospitality” solicits contributions that interrogate these dynamics.
CONFERENCE THEMES
THEME 1: Pedagogies Of The Arts
THEME 2: Arts Histories And Theories
THEME 3: New Media, Technology, And The Arts
THEME 4: The Arts In Social, Political, And Community Life
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ABOUT THE ARTS IN SOCIETY RESEARCH NETWORK
Founded in 2000, the Arts in Society Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussion of the role of the arts in society. It is a place for critical engagement, examination, and experimentation, developing ideas that connect the arts to their contexts in the world – on stage, in studios and theaters, in classrooms, in museums and galleries, on the streets and in communities. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries.
Call for papers: 28 February (late proposal deadline 28 April 2025) https://artsinsociety.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers
Price: 195 USD (Audience pass - in person); 145 USD (Audience pass - online); discounted rates available for students and returning members