Submissions are now open for Hunar Symposia’s inaugural conference on 16 -18 November 2022
Hunar believes that art, in all its forms, functions in a similar way, serving as a bridge between our utopic desires and the concrete possibilities for change. In this sense, it makes visible what has been deemed invisible, and speakable what has been deemed unspeakable, opening new paths to understand and overcome our social and political challenges.
Hunar seeks to foreground the importance of creative work in producing imaginative, humorous, provocative, and unpredictable responses to conflicts both past and present. In this context, we challenge researchers and artists from around the globe to share their investigations, experiences, and practices to build with us an international and interdisciplinary dialogue about creative forms of resistance in landscapes of conflict.
This is a three-day conference taking place in-person and online in November 2022. Delivered alongside an international art exhibition, the event seeks to amplify marginalised voices from across the globe by bringing together scholars and arts practitioners to explore imaginative and critical responses to conflict, and to reflect carefully on intersecting and ongoing histories of State violence, colonialism, dispossession, and other forms of traumatic social upheaval.
Themes
The conference welcomes both traditional and practice-led approaches to arts and aesthetics from academics and non- academics. We invite you to weave with us this cross-national web of experiential knowledge production by submitting abstracts/proposals related to artistic practices in contexts of violence and conflict. Possible topics could be, although not limited to, the following:
● Publics and counter-publics, participatory art, and emerging modes of artistic dissemination and engagement
● Practice-based knowledge production and alternative epistemologies around arts and art theory
● Postcolonial and decolonial approaches to arts and aesthetics
● Curatorship, transforming institutions, and organisational challenges in the GLAM sector
● Trauma-informed aesthetic theory and arts practice
● The ethics of artistic and/or media representations around violence and conflict
● Feminist approaches to arts and aesthetics
Formats
The symposium welcomes submissions by individual speakers as well as panel proposals. Panel proposals must identify a Chair, 2-3 speakers, and may include a discussant. All panellists’ bios and roles will need to be included in the bio field below. Please include the email of primary contact in the email field. To accommodate international submissions, we are offering the option of submitting a pre-recorded video, in any language, of 15-20 minutes for individual speakers.
Dates All times and dates are in Sydney, Australia time
Abstract submissions open: 9am, 28 February 2022
Abstract submissions close: 11.55pm, 5 June 2022
Applicants notified: week commencing 1July 2022
Video submissions due between 9am, 7 July 2022 and 11.55pm, 1 September 2022 as MP4s
All submissions via online form: https://hunarsymposia.com/conference-2022
For inquiries, email contact@hunarsymposia.com