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Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society, Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, 28-30 May 2025

Founded in 2000, the Arts in Society Research Network 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.

The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

2025 Special Focus—The Art of Hospitality: Personal, Local, Global

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

Email: support@cgnetworks.org

aesthetics, anthropology, arts, arts education, communications and media, community, creativity, culture, identity, interdisciplinary studies, media studies, museums, philosophy, popular culture, sociology

The American Association of Biological Anthropologists, or AABA, is the world's leading professional organization for biological anthropologists. Formed by 83 charter members in 1930, the AABA now has an international membership of over 2,200. The Association's annual meetings draw more than two thousand scientists and students from all over the world.