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06 Feb 2026 make online - Open call for presentations

We welcome proposals for presentations of 10 minutes or less that incorporate a wide range of content exploring different aspects of artistic and educational practice.

We are particularly interested in:

  • Experimental approaches to teaching and making art that you may have developed and incorporated into your practice
  • Demonstrations of a variety of skills, ideas, resources and approaches that focus on the development of material literacy and making practices in art education
  • Work or research that advocates for the intrinsic value of art as a vital component of education

https://form.typeform.com/to/FLRqdBNN

11 Feb 2026 CFP: SAVA Conference on Solidarity with Nature: Envisioning the Ecological Heritage of World Socialism

Sainsbury Art Centre, University of East Anglia, May 21–22, 2026 (Norwich, UK)

15 Feb 2026 CFP: IPHS 2026 Conference @ Georgia Tech - ‘Crossroads’

Call for Abstracts IPHS 2026 Atlanta, Georgia July 19-23, 2026

15 Feb 2026 CFP: SACRPH 2026 / The 21st National Conference on Planning History

15–18 October 2026, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

https://www.aasa-arch.org/post/call-for-papers—–sacrph-2026—the-21st-national-conference-on-planning-history-15-18-october-20 https://www.online.uc.edu

16 Feb 2026 CFP: Symposium on Artistic Research in Analog Practices – Sustainable Body

NB: Participation fee applies (? unsure if presenters can participate for free) Please read carefully. Submission is free.

11–12 April 2026 The Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, Finland

Two-day symposium focusing on analog photography and moving image practice. It will be held in the Process Space at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland, during the weekend 11.–12.4.2026. The symposium will also take place on an online platform and streamed to the participants in real time.

20 Feb 2026 CFP: Session @ RGS London: Geographies of Concealment: Temporary Urban Barriers of Masking, Covering, and Hiding

Royal Geographical Society, London 1-4 September 2026

This panel focuses on barriers as affective infrastructural tools (Bosworth, 2023; Henderson, 2008) that physically, visually, and behaviorally establish a temporary relation of masking, covering, or hiding space in the city. Through varying materialities, opacities, and scales, barriers impose a vertical limit that redirects movement, interrupts sightlines, and reshapes everyday spatial politics.

23 Feb 2026 CFP: ACH (Association for computers and the humanities) Conference 2026: Emergence/ia

Virtual conference, 24-26 June 2026

Papers accepted in EN, ES

ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both “emergence” and “emergency.” This dual meaning serves as our starting point. While emergence/ia speaks to growth, connection, and creation, emergency/ia signals moments of urgency that demand care, response, and transformation. ACH 2026 seeks to ask: What forms of knowledge creation in the digital humanities (broadly defined) are emerging from pressing challenges across the Americas? How do digital humanists respond to emergencies through knowledge creation, while being mindful of ramifications of computing for environmental crises? What insights do themes of transnationalism and solidarity reveal across the Americas about our work and communities, and the role of emerging technology in shaping both?

01 Mar 2026 CFP: International conference - The Evolution of Artistic Representations of Marginalized Identities in the Americas (19th–21st centuries): Ruptures and/or Continuities?

25–27 November 2026, University of Lille

The aim of this conference is to take stock of current research on the evolution of representations and imaginaries of identity and alterity in/of the Americas, as well as the power dynamics they entail, through artistic and cultural practices and productions, and to lay the foundations for the creation of an international research network in this field.

Papers accepted in EN, FR, ES.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Open access book: Fumetti, spazio e architettura/Comics, Space, and Architecture

Call for book chapter for Comics, Space, and Architecture: Theory, Analysis, and Applications.

01 Mar 2026 CFP: Building Identities: Character in Architecture and Beyond

International Conference, Zurich, 2-4 September 2026

03 Mar 2026 CFP: Situated Imaginaries and Imaginaries of Urban Futures Conference, University of Cambridge

Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 17 July 2026.

A conference exploring how situated imaginations and imaginaries are formed, contested, and translated across politics and space towards urban futures.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: Enabling Boundaries: Rethinking Spatial Categories, Epistemic Challenges, and Transformative Design Practices

Oldenburg, Germany Symposium date: June 6, 2026

We invite contributions from practitioners, critics and researchers from the design disciplines such as urban design and planning, architecture, landscape and environmental design, but also from scholars in philosophy, sociology, geography, media philosophy, political science, etc. To foster debate and exchange, we are planning a one-day on-site workshop on June 5, 2026 in Oldenburg (with Zoom option). Limited funding to cover travel expenses is available. The workshop is part of the “Rurban Design Lab” research project, which belongs to the “4N” research network.

06 Mar 2026 CFP: SAHANZ-AUHPH 2026, 7-9 December 2026, Melbourne, Australia

This conference invites contributions that explore the echoes within the void: to engage with the idea of absence in the built and designed environment in all its myriad forms and machinations: absences of people, structures, places, ideas, or representation, by design, neglect, or by force.

15 Mar 2026 Symposium: Time to Listen – Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound

Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg, 26–27 June 2026

We invite artists, curators, and researchers to propose sessions they would like to lead during the symposium on 26–27 June. Sessions are 45 minutes long, and the format is open: it can range from lectures, project presentations, workshops, sound walks, listening sessions, to guided improvisations. We are seeking contributions that engage with the theme of Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound.

15 Mar 2026 CFP: Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Learning, Spatial Design, and Participatory Pedagogies Within Institutions and Beyond

Dates: 3–5 September 2026 Location: London, UK

https://www.the-lsa.org/call-for-abstracts-learningsunlearnings-conference/ https://caravanize.nu/learnings-unlearnings-2026/call-for-abstracts/

15 Mar 2026 CFP: The Self at Scale - Workshop @ ICI Berlin, Bard College Berlin

Autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. This workshop explores the history of these forms, and is interested in their genealogies, as well as in the politics and aesthetics of subjectivity, especially in the moments when these practices have intensified.

16 Mar 2026 CFP: Making Ecologies: Craft, Material, and Situated Practice

How do materials, environments, and traditions shape the way we make?

Making Ecologies is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring how craft and material practices engage with ecological, cultural, and situated ways of making.

We invite scholars, researchers, artists, designers, conservators, and practitioners to respond to themes including: • Material Ecologies • Craft Assemblages • Situated Practices

27 Mar 2026 CFP: Colonial Hinter-Seas: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary

August 2026, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

31 Mar 2026 CFP: Thinking with Materials across Histories and Practices

The Centre for Doctoral Studies UMPRUM invites submissions for an international doctoral conference exploring materials and materiality within art historical and artistic research methodologies. The conference will take place on October 1–2, 2026 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, with the possibility of online participation.

The event focuses on historiography of material-oriented approaches, microhistories, and new perspectives on material as a starting point for artistic and theoretical inquiry. PhD students and early career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Papers should be presented in English and not exceed 20 minutes.

Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUqC9B9iCro/

03 Apr 2026 CFP: AFRAUHN (African Architectural and Urban History Network) Nairobi

8–10 September 2026 Conference run by the African Architectural & Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN), in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi, invites proposals for papers about emerging discourses and themes in African architectural and urban practices for a major international conference being held at the University of Nairobi from 8th September – 10th September 2026.

It will be the second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference, the first having taken place at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning in South Africa in July 2024. Recognizing that discourses about African architecture and urban planning are more complex than the bifurcated ‘traditional’/‘colonial’ or ‘African’/‘Western’ models which still tend to dominate the research, writing, environmental design and spatial design practices in the continent, this conference instead welcomes contributions that critically examine the status quo(s) of these models and disciplines – be that in terms of academic, practice, national institutions or regulatory bodies, or as are imagined by policy-makers in forms of urban development which are then disseminated to the public.

This second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference is organized to coincide with the inaugural Pan-African Biennale of Architecture, curated by Omar Degan and team, and which is also being held in September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Liquid, Solid and Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water

24–25 June 2026, King’s College London LAHP-funded, hybrid conference

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Bodies and climate : transcorporeal affects of weathering

13 November 2026, Site Saint-Charles, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3

This research day aims at investigating how transcorporeal weathering is evoked, imagined, respresented in literature, the visual arts, the cinema and the performative arts. Tempests, storms, floods as well as droughts have long captured human imagination. The apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic imaginaries have been fuelled by real disasters and an increasing awareness of our entangled vulnerabilities. The possibility of a new sublime triggered by the unimaginable scale of pollution, depletion, meltdown, extinctions has been debated. Emily Brady has showed how a humbling sublime may emerge from new human and non-human relationalities.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration

International seminar - Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome, October 28-30, 2026

What models might art historians adopt for acknowledging both the locatedness of artistic practices and their deep entanglement with planetary systems? What are the possibilities and the limits for the discipline when thinking through humanity’s impact on the Earth’s elemental components? How do the material histories of drift, movement, and transformation coexist with histories of belonging and situatedness?

23 Apr 2026 Call for case studies - International Archives Week (8–12 June 2026), Archives for Justice

NB: ICA members only

As part of International Archives Week 2026 (8–12 June 2026), the International Council on Archives (ICA) invites its members to submit proposals for case studies aligned with this year’s theme: #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory & Futures.

This is your opportunity to showcase innovative practices, highlight challenges, and share lessons learned from archival initiatives that advance justice, human rights, and memory.

Case studies are detailed presentations of real-world archival projects or initiatives, demonstrating practical applications, ethical considerations, and societal impact. Presentations should last ten (10) minutes, followed by five (5) minutes for audience discussion. They provide a platform to share experiences, inspire peers, and contribute to the global discourse on archives and justice.

25 Apr 2026 CFP: Heritage, identities, memories - II International Conference of Studies on Photography, Universidad de San Andrés

Humanities Department, Universidad de San Andrés Buenos Aires, October 21 to 23, 2026

Abstracts accepted in ES, EN, FR, PT.

The Program in Photography and Visual Arts Studies (Centro Materia-IIAC, UNTREF) invites submissions for the second International Conference on Photography Studies, “Heritage, Identities, Memories,” to be held in October 2026 in Buenos Aires. The conference is intended as a space for critical reflection on the specificity of the photographic medium, its artistic relevance, its theoretical and historical methodologies, its materiality, and its particular agency as a device of representation.

CFP EN: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RQbhVAW9Rj4OTG9ZjNtqkkhNN9VfPUhI/view CFP ES: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L_jcJDZfNMVAb3_vmAXi7LM0QAtupVY5/view CFP FR: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_YVDekGSMQCxkAvGBTYdZF281hQCCxKY/view

01 May 2026 CFP: DHS Student Conference, 12-13 June 2026: EPHEMERAL ENCOUNTERS

  • What role does ephemera play in the practice of design history?
  • How can we approach the question of ephemerality when thinking about sustainability in the face of the climate crisis and political turmoil?
  • How can archives, museums, and historical repositories work to preserve spaces, objects, skills, memories, traditions, and cultures for the future?
  • What can design history do to preserve fleeting encounters? How do design historians negotiate the ephemerality of user experience?
  • As design historians, how do we come to terms with these uncertainties, do we simply attempt to preserve and share these histories, or do we attempt to find new methods of engaging with these histories that might help us face contemporary issues?

We welcome papers and other creative responses which fit with an online format, such as audio/ visual work or creative ways of presenting (in-conversation papers, interviews etc.), engaging with design history and the themes of ephemera, ephemerality and ephemeral encounters. Students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds are all encouraged to present their work.

01 May 2026 CFP: 13th International Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society - Geography Matters

27-28 November 2026. Athens, Greece

Modern Geography encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, interacting with the natural, social, and human sciences, as well as with applied sciences and spatial planning. The 13th Conference of the Hellenic Geographical Society (HGS), titled Geography Matters, and co-organised with the Harokopio University of Athens, aims to highlight the richness and diversity of Geography, placing special emphasis on bridging different approaches and interconnecting scientific boundaries.

In an era of significant changes and uncertainty, major challenges - such as the climate crisis, humanitarian disasters and intensification of social inequalities, and geopolitical tensions and authoritarianism in governance - necessitate innovative, interdisciplinary and multiscalar inquiries.

10 May 2026 CFP: Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere

Choosing the Past: The Manifestation of History in a Changing Public Sphere 10–12 June 2026 | Hybrid (online & in-person) | Charles University, Prague

This international and interdisciplinary conference invites PhD candidates and selected Master’s students to explore how historical narratives are constructed, negotiated, and debated in the contemporary public sphere. The event welcomes contributions from fields such as history, sociology, anthropology, political science, cultural studies, gender studies, and related disciplines.

Key topics include memory and visual culture, national identity, heritage and urban memory, disinformation, decolonisation of history, and the politics of belonging.

The conference will be held online & in-person on June 10-12, 2026. The event is organized by the Department of East European Studies and the Boris Nemtsov Academic Center, Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague.

11 May 2026 CFP: Oral History Australia 2026 Biennial Conference - Human voices, modern technology: Oral history & authenticity

3-6 December 2026

We invite papers that consider how new applications, techniques and changes in technology are being used by practitioners in planning, recording, transcribing, archiving, and sharing oral histories. Papers might consider (but are not limited to):

  • ethical considerations
  • transcription technologies
  • challenges underpinning podcasting and videography
  • the long-term storage of interviews, and the
  • potential consequences of hosting projects online.

Alternatively, we are also looking for papers that reaffirm the values that have always been inherent to oral history as a methodology necessitating human interactivity and authentic storytelling, which recognise the importance of continuing to forge connections and safeguard oral histories for the future.

15 May 2026 CFP: Photography’s Material Conditions: Residue, Object(hood) and Practices in the Expanded Field

8th International Conference of Photography & Theory (ICPT2026) Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, 26-28 November, 2026

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from various disciplines, such as: photography, art history and theory, visual sociology, anthropology, museology, philosophy, ethnography, education, cultural studies, and visual and media studies. To propose a paper, please submit a 450-word abstract (including references) through our online submission system, no later than: May 15th, 2026

15 May 2026 CFP: Drawing from Territory - Research and practices in art, science and technology

International Conference 23rd - 25th November 2026 Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal

Abstracts accepted in EN, ES, PT

Drawing from territory is an international artistic and scientific conference held within the framework of the XXIV International Biennial of Art of Cerveira, with the support of research centres from the University of Porto: the Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (i2ADS), the Centre of Studies in Geography and Spatial Planning (CEGOT), and the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment (CITTA).

Rooted in the border territory of Vila Nova de Cerveira, in northern Portugal, and Galicia, the initiative proposes a discussion of pressing territorial issues, with particular attention to border regions as spaces of negotiation, permeability, exchange, and tension.

Drawing from territory invites artists, scientists, professionals from STEM fields, as well as researchers from all areas of knowledge, to engage with Drawing as a broad and transversal discipline, capable of articulating research and praxis across different domains.

15 May 2026 CFP: Warburg, Malraux, Picasso: Album, Atlas, Archive

Aby Warburg, André Malraux and Pablo Picasso were fascinated in their lifetime by the persistence and metamorphoses of images and the inheritance of world art. Today, Malraux’s musée imaginaire or ‘museum without walls’ extends to the virtual universe of images. Throughout 2026 events are taking place internationally to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Malraux, the adventurer, writer and first French Minister of Culture. The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study and the Courtauld Institute, University of London, together with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are celebrating this occasion with a conference to be held on 4-5 December, 2026.

Warburg and Malraux expert Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) is a confirmed speaker.

Subjects might include:

  • Aby Warburg as precursor
  • Cultural restitution and the global ‘museum without walls’
  • Re-readings from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory
  • The global culture of image circulation
  • Focussed studies, such as Picasso’s exchanges with Malraux, commemorated in Malraux’s La tête d’obsidienne, 1974 (Picasso’s Mask, 1976)
  • Contemporary responses by artists such as Dennis Adams or Goshka Macuga

Papers should aim at 15-20 minutes for delivery, in English, with further time for questions.

Conference dates: 4-5 December 2026

Locations: The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, and the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

18 May 2026 CFP: Society for Visual Anthropology Visual Research Conference (VRC) 2026

November 16-18, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA

The VRC provides an opportunity for professionals and students to dialogue about visually engaged works-in-progress in 40-minute presentation slots. Conventionally there are no specific themes to follow for general submissions, though we are most interested in new ideas and projects under development in the study of visual signification, visual communication, and visual forms of representation, and/or utilizing visual media (photo, film, web, polymedia, intermedia, multimodal media).

18 May 2026 Call for sessions, roundtables & papers: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) Virtual Conference 2026

24–26 September, 2026 — Online conference via Zoom

The Society of Architectural Historians invites those interested in the history of the built environment to submit a session or paper proposal for its virtual conference—SAH Virtual 2026—that will be held from Thursday, September 24, to Saturday, September 26, 2026.

The purpose of SAH Virtual 2026 is to share and discuss research in architectural history and related disciplines that cover every period in the history of architecture and all aspects of the built environment. In addition to architectural historians, we seek submissions from allied and adjacent disciplines including (but not limited to) architecture, landscape, urban history, art history, design, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, environmental studies, etc. The guiding principle for SAH Virtual 2026 is inter-disciplinary sharing and collaboration. We hope this will be an opportunity for people from any discipline who are interested in the history of the built environment to participate in a meaningful exchange of ideas.

25 May 2026 CFP: Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams

Photography Research Group, University of Brighton Photoworks Festival

Photoworks and the Photography Research Group at the University of Brighton are co-organising a conference as part of the upcoming edition of Photoworks Festival.

The theme Un/Stable: Lands, Anxieties, Dreams will explore geographical, psychological and metaphysical flows and connections of life, culture, and the environment.

This call for papers invites responses to the fragile and current states of personal and collective geographies. Through photography practices and perspectives on photography, we seek to address anxieties and fractured realities, opening speculative spaces of care, resistance, and reimagining.

The conference will take place on Friday 2 October 2026 at the University of Brighton, School of Art and Media, City Campus, and aims to support development of new research locating photography within various fields of study.

These include ecological entanglements and cosmotechnics, geological and technological anxieties, looking at how histories, identities, futures and place are interconnected.

This area of research includes Art in the Age of Anxiety, (2021) edited by Omar Kholeif; Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, (2021) edited by Yuk Hui and Pieter Lemmens; Ways of Being, (2022) by James Bridle, and Returning to Benjamin: Art in the Age of AI by Victor Burgin (2025).

31 May 2026 CFP: Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning Bengaluru, India Conference dates: 29-31 January 2026

BMS College of Architecture, Design and Planning invites you to the International Conference on Emerging Tourism: Architecture and Planning Perspectives (INCET 2027)

Tourism today goes beyond economics—shaping culture, ecology, infrastructure, and human experience. INCET 2027 brings together academia, practice, and policy to explore sustainable, inclusive, and design-led tourism futures.

31 May 2026 CFP: Vision and Veiling: Photographic Resilience and Sociopolitical Change

Photography Network Virtual Symposium, Nov 5–7, 2026

Photography practitioners, historians, and curators respond in a multitude of ways to political and cultural contexts that challenge their work. Moreover, in response to efforts to remove, omit, occlude, obscure, or manipulate, photographs often persist, transform, and recirculate, reformulating visual worlds. Photographs bear a complex relationship to political and social power; authorities might manipulate or remove photographs to further their goals, but forms of covering up, self-censorship, or self-fashioning might also function in the name of individual privacy, safety, or resistance. Furthermore, as the material capabilities and limitations of photography shift, new questions continually emerge about the role of photographic removal and photographic resilience in constricting cultural climates.

This symposium offers a platform for scholarship that investigates the adaptability of photography and photo history in the face of constraints, be them cultural, governmental, institutional, editorial, individual, or otherwise. What do historians, curators, and photographers do when limitations are placed on their work, and what do the limitations themselves reveal about photography? Relatedly, when is restriction, refusal, or withdrawal protective, strategic, or empowering? Finally, what, if anything, has changed about how the medium navigates social or cultural boundaries—what can we learn from how practitioners have done this in the past that might shed light on present-day questions? We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, and we especially encourage international scholars to submit.

31 May 2026 CFP: The agency of images in the cognitive ecology of artificial intelligence

ASRI Journal, special issue 31

This volume of ASRI Journal. Art and Society invites academics and visual artists, at any stage of their career, to contribute research and practices that explore the epistemic and ontological relationships and differences between the agency of AI-generated images and the agency of art images, as well as the role of artistic practice in critiquing and visualising the socio-technological conditions of visual culture in the age of GenAI.

Submission details (ES): https://revistaasri.com/about/submissions Submission details (EN): https://calenda.org/1346638

08 Jun 2026 CFP: SAH (Society of Architectural Historians) 2027 Chicago

The Society’s 80th Annual International Conference will take place in Chicago on April 14-18, 2027.

SAH is now accepting abstracts for its 80th Annual International Conference in Chicago, Illinois, April 14–18, 2027. Please submit an abstract no later than 11:59 p.m. CDT on June 8, 2026, to one of the 54 thematic sessions, the Graduate Student Lightning Talks or the Open Sessions for the Chicago conference. SAH encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of SAH chapters, Affiliate Groups, and partner organizations.

If your research topic is not a good fit for one of the thematic sessions, please submit your abstract to the Open Sessions.

15 Jun 2026 CFP: The International Conference on Sustainable Development 2026 - European Center of Sustainable Development

Conference dates: Wednesday, 09 September – Thursday, 10 September 2026

NB: Deadlines vary, please check the website. The deadline posted on this call is the late submission deadline on the website.

Theme: Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education

26 Jun 2026 CFP: Untold Tales: Women Pioneers in British and Irish architectural history

There have been a growing number of studies of female architects over the past twenty years but almost no accounts of female architectural historians. One exception is Dana Arnold’s edited collection Women and Architectural History: The Monstrous Regiment Then and Now (2025) which involved women operating from the 1970s onwards. This symposium looks back further to the earliest generations involved in the writing and promotion of architectural history in a wide range of spheres. We are interested in women who were involved in the subject as academics, curators, journalists, photographers, writers and in the conservation and heritage spheres from the nineteenth century onwards.

01 Jul 2026 CFP: Pleasure as the Aim of Art? The Place of Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century European Art Theory and Practice

University of Lausanne, Nov 26–28, 2026

Abstracts accepted in EN, FR

Considering both creation and reception, this conference proposes to examine the various facets of artistic pleasure in seventeenth-century Europe. The perspectives developed may invite a broader reconsideration of the complex place of pleasure in early modern thought on art, its potential role in the construction of a system of the arts (Du Bos and especially Batteux) and in the development of eighteenth-century aesthetics (Baumgarten, Burke, Kant). Often regarded as secondary, pleasure may thus be reinvested with genuine heuristic value, both for analysing past discourses and practices and for reflecting on our own ways of apprehending, engaging with and even studying works of art in the broadest sense.

15 Jul 2026 CFP: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm

PNCA 2026 Symposium: Art, Aura, and the Algorithm. Oct 1-3, 2026

What happens to art, authorship, and presence when AI enters the creative process?

We invite proposals from artists, writers, and scholars interested in questions like:

  • Can AI-generated art possess aura?
  • What becomes of authorship, originality, and artistic presence today?
  • How is aura produced, performed, or gamified online?
  • What new forms of creativity emerge through human–machine collaboration?

FORMAT: We are accepting proposals for individual papers (15–20 minutes). Research, creative practice, and community-based work are all welcome. Graduate & advanced undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit. You don’t need all the answers—just a strong question to explore.

https://pnca.willamette.edu/culture/symposium