The 1st International Online Conference on Arts

Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA;Andrew M. Nedd teaches at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He specializes in the art of Russia, particularly the late imperial period. He received a Regional Scholar Exchange Program grant (RSEP - U.S. Department of State) and was a short-term residential fellow at Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Summer 2016 he served as Scholar-in-Residence at Hillwood Estate, Museum and Garden in Washington, D.C. Professor Nedd published a book with Palgrave Macmillan in 2024: History and Myth in Pictorial Narratives of the Russian "Patriotic War," 1812-1914. In addition, Nedd contributed essays to the anthologies Russian Orientalism in a Global Context (2023); Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War (2020); Illustrating History / Illustrer l’Histoire (2019); 1914: Guerre et Avant-Gardes (2016); and Picture This! Reading World War I Posters (2008). Nedd served as co-editor and contributor to the anthology Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Arresting Images (2015). He also published articles on contemporary Chinese art in the journals Yishu and Artpulse. Nedd served as guest editor of two special issues of Arts: “World War, Art, and Memory: 1914 to 1945,” and “Ukraine Under Fire: The Visual Arts in Ukraine and Abroad Since 2014.”

School of Art, Temple University Rome Campus, Rome 00187, Italy;Dr. Robert Huber is an American art historian who began teaching in 1999. He has taught courses in Italian Renaissance art and architecture, and the History of Art in Rome from antiquity through the Baroque age in Italy since 2000. He is also a licensed Italian guide and Italian food expert. His teaching and research builds upon first hand experience of artworks, buildings and urban spaces, combined with archival knowledge of primary written sources in the historical and philosophical domains.

Department of Modern Languages, School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA;Dr. Santiago Juan-Navarro is Professor of Hispanic Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at Florida International University, where he has taught since 1995 (Professor since 2010). A scholar of literature, film, and comparative cultural studies, his work bridges Iberian and Latin American traditions with particular attention to Cuban cinema, the politics of memory, and digital humanities. His research spans several fronts: Cuban and Cuban-diaspora cinema; Spanish-American narrative; dystopian and utopian imaginaries; and the visual cultures of empire. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including projects on Juana of Castile, La ciudad en la literatura y el cine, and Memoria histórica, género e interdisciplinariedad. In recent years, he has developed a broad study of dystopia in twenty-first-century Cuban cinema (2008–2023), understanding it as a form of critical warning in post-utopian contexts. In parallel, he investigates Hispanidad and political theology in Franco-era cinema. Committed to public-facing scholarship, Juan-Navarro co-founded the Cuban Diaspora Film Archive (CDfA) with filmmaker and doctoral candidate Eliecer Jiménez Almeida—a digital repository and cultural hub dedicated to documenting, preserving, and studying the audiovisual production of Cubans in exile. At FIU he designs hybrid and online courses in literature and film, including “The Films of the Cuban Diaspora,” and mentors graduate students across the humanities. He has served on editorial boards, organized conferences, and evaluated grants and fellowships for entities such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Trained as a comparative humanist, Juan-Navarro holds a Ph.D. (1995) and M.Phil. (1991) from Columbia University, and a D.Phil. (1999) from the University of Valencia. His teaching covers narrative theory, cultural memory, and transatlantic film history. Current projects. His principal book project is Projecting Empire: The Spanish-Cuban-American