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The 1st International Online Conference on Arts

New Currents in the Scholarship of the Visual and Performing Arts

08 - 09 April 2027 (CEST)
Online

Welcome from
the chair
Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 1st International Online Conference on Arts: New Currents in the Scholarship of the Visual and Performing Arts. The conference is organized by the MDPI open access journal Arts (ISSN: 2076-0752, Impact Factor: 0.5) and will be held online from 8 to 9 April 2027.

This conference represents a unique opportunity for arts scholars around the world to share their latest research, communicate with each other, solve problems, and suggest alternative options for creating a better future.

Contemporary arts scholarship advances across a multitude of research dimensions, spanning studio practice and visual theory, performing arts and cinematic studies, material culture and design, alongside institutional and curatorial research domains. To accommodate such wide-ranging scholarly progressions, the conference has been structured around four interlinked thematic sessions:

S1. Studio Art, Visual Culture, and Art Theory
S2. Performing Arts and Cinema Studies
S3. Architecture, Craft, Design, and Material Culture
S4. Art Market, Museums, Exhibitions, and Emerging Practices
This thematic framework is formulated to cultivate interdisciplinary academic exchange and provide a holistic perspective on the current landscape and prospective pathways of arts scholarship at large.

As a fully online‑only event with free registration, the conference removes the usual constraints of travel and cost, allowing you to participate from anywhere with minimal logistical burden. All accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. The virtual format also enables live presentations and interactive Q&A through the conference platform, making it easier to connect with colleagues across time zones.

Outstanding contributions from each session will be eligible for conference awards. Moreover, instead of limiting presentations to a live poster session, all participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster via the poster gallery on the conference website. Therefore, all participants with poster submissions for the poster gallery are now eligible for awards!

Your participation is essential to the success of IOCAR 2027, and we warmly invite you to join this vibrant scientific forum. We look forward to your contributions and to a dynamic and fruitful conference!

Kind regards,
Conference Chair
Prof. Dr. Andrew M. Nedd
Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA

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Prof. Dr. Andrew M. Nedd

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.”

Important Dates


  • Abstract submission deadlineJan 08, 2027
  • Abstract acceptance notificationFeb 02, 2027
  • Registration end dateApr 01, 2027

Sessions

  • S1. Studio Art, Visual Culture, and Art Theory
  • S2. Performing Arts and Cinema Studies
  • S3. Architecture, Craft, Design, and Material Culture
  • S4. Art Market, Museums, Exhibitions, and Emerging Practices
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Ann Li
Ms. Luna Wang
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.

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