Deadline: May 23, 2025
Program Starts: May 23, 2025
Program Ends: May 25, 2025
Location(s)
Online United States of America
Overview
For over 30 years, Common Ground has been invested in developing technologies that seek to break down barriers of access in scholarly communication. In each phase, we’ve built media platforms to support spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, before such approaches were in vogue; connected international voices, when disciplines were too often isolated in national silos; and supported an agenda of access and equality, by offering pathways and opportunities for diverse voices. We now propose another kind of intervention -- to build a scholarly communication infrastructure for a blended future.
Details
Our blended model seeks to transcend physical boundaries by offering a platform to extend in-person conference content online, while ensuring online-only delegates are afforded equal participatory and experiential spaces within the platform. At the same time, the model offers participants a legacy resource to which they can return in the Event application, with access to a social space in our Community application where fellow participants can keep connected long after the conference ends.Themes and Special Focus
The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society 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. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.
The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society features research addressing the following annual themes and special focus.
2025 Special Focus—Engagement Curating
- 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
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Dates
Deadline: May 23, 2025
Program starts:
May 23, 2025
Program ends:
May 25, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
Presenter Pass - In-Person Blended (Student)
- Present research to in-person and online audiences
- Access to all headline presentations: welcome addresses, plenary addresses, and curated thematic content -- either live or from any place and in your own time
- Participate in innovative blended formats -- Talking Circles, Garden Conversations -- using the best of in-person and online capacities, and on a human scale
- Access to the content of in-person and online presenters, including online conversation spaces and peer-to-peer discussions
- Access to official programmed in-person and online special events: Welcome Reception, Book Launches, and more
- Lunch and coffee break on the days of the conference (in-person)
- Official citation and summary of work in the conference program
- Includes Research Network membership
Prices: from $US295 to $US445
Audience Pass - In-Person Blended (Student)
Audience Pass - In-Person Blended (Student): $145
Audience Pass - Online Only (Student): $95
Returning Member - Presenter Pass - In-Person Blended (Student)
Prices: from US$245 to US$395
Returning Member Audience Pass - (Student)
$120
Emerging Scholar Awards
Each year a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding early-career scholars or graduate students. The Award offers complimentary registration, Network Membership, and CGScholar Credit. It provides a robust professional development opportunity for early career academics to meet experts in the field, interact with colleagues from other parts of the world, and create networks and lasting connections. In our Blended Model, we have two kinds of Emerging Scholars -- In-Person Blended and Online Only. Across all formats, Emerging Scholars play a critical role in the conference by leading discussions and chairing parallel sessions and are offered a publication pathway for their research. This way, we can provide maximum exposure for this selected group of researchers.
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.