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ICOAH 2024 encourages the community of international researchers to share their experiences and discussions. In the history of the ICOAH series, the conferences have been held in different countries. The ICOAH 2014 conference was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka and ICOAH 2016 in Bali, Indonesia. ICOAH 2017, ICOAH 2018 was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka and ICOAH 2019 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICOAH 2020,  2021 and 2022 were held fully virtual. ICOAH 2023 were held in Bangkok, Thailand. With the overwhelming support and acknowledgment from all the delegates of the past series, we wish to pioneer a way to anotheroutstanding event.

THEME: “ENVISIONING FUTURES: DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES, GLOBAL NARRATIVES”

In an era defined by unprecedented changes and emerging challenges, ICOAH 2024 invites scholars, artists, and visionaries to engage in a critical examination of the future. This conference aims to blend historical insights, artistic expressions, and philosophical perspectives to construct a multifaceted understanding of what the future might hold.

Objectives of ICOAH 2024

Build Updated and Futuristic International Community

One of the main objectives of ICOAH 2024 is to continuously improve the standards of the international community of researchers, scholars, and academics by exposing them to the latest trends and developments while addressing the theme, “Envisioning Futures: Diverse Perspectives, Global Narratives.”

High Quality Conference Standards and Publication Standards

The conference is specially designed by the TIIKM Research and Development team together with a committee of experts and international universities and networks with the guidance of the Academic Governing Body of TIIKM conferences. ICOAH 2024 meets the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and conference general standards created to maximize industry –academia – policymaker collaborations. Conference consists with several special issues and high quality supported journals while conference proceedings are published in Open Journal System (OJS) with indexing and DOI.

Platform with Highest Networking Opportunities

The 11th International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2024 (ICOAH 2024) has a wide range of networking opportunities to maximize participants’ international network. Conference networking dinner together with cultural show, academic partner’s discussions, panel discussions, lunches and refreshments, post-conference tour will be great opportunities for participants to get life changing experiences. Moreover, the conference venue is one of the beautiful cities in the world.

Develop Careers and Increase Opportunities

ICOAH 2024 is designed to develop the careers of the participants and increase opportunities for their future. The renowned resource persons in the Arts and Humanities field will conduct special features of the conference. The conference will also provide a unique convergence of networking, learning, and inspiring keynote speeches, Discussions, plenary speeches, and workshops will be presented, along with the highest grade of publication opportunities.

Conference Focus

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

  • Historical and Cultural Pathways to the Future: Investigating the influence of our collective past and cultural heritage on future possibilities, with a focus on the insights provided by historical and cultural studies.
  • Futuristic Narratives in Arts and Literature: Exploring the role of literature, film, and the arts in envisioning and critiquing future scenarios, reflecting societal hopes and challenges.
  • Humanity and Society: Examining changes in social structures, political landscapes, and human identity, with emphasis on the insights from social sciences and humanities about technological and societal transformation.
  • Economic Transformation: Analyzing the impact of global economic changes on cultural production and artistic practices, from the perspective of cultural economics and sociology.
  • The Future of Communication: Assessing the implications of technological innovations on the creation, dissemination, and reception of art and culture, focusing on shifts in narrative forms and media aesthetics.
  • Philosophical Approaches to the Future: Delving into discussions that shape our understanding of future ethical, aesthetic, and conceptual challenges, utilizing the critical tools of philosophy and ethics.
  • Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Future: Incorporating perspectives from Futures Studies, Scenario Planning, Strategic Foresight, Horizon Scanning, Futurism, Design Fiction, Technological Forecasting, Predictive Analytics, and/or the Delphi Method to explore the intersections between technology, society, and the arts.
  • Environmental Futures and the Humanities: Analyzing the contributions of the arts and humanities to understanding and addressing environmental challenges, and envisioning sustainable futures.
  • Decolonizing Futures: Exploring the potential of the arts and humanities to decolonize futures studies and to incorporate diverse cultural narratives and indigenous knowledge systems in envisioning the future.

Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

  • Historical Insights and Future Projections: How historical understanding informs future predictions.
  • Creative Visions of Tomorrow: The role of literature and arts in shaping future narratives.
  • The Evolution of Sociopolitical Landscapes: Understanding future changes in human societies and governance.
  • Economic Trends and Digital Transformation: Exploring how digitalization influences economic practices and concepts.
  • Advancements in Communication: The future of how we connect, share, and engage in a technologically evolving landscape.
  • Philosophical Interpretations of the Future: Examining philosophical theories and concepts that ponder the future of humanity and society.
  • Interdisciplinary Futures Studies: Engaging with futures studies methodologies to explore arts and humanities’ contributions to envisioning and creating alternative futures.
  • Art, Technology, and Environmental Sustainability: Investigating the intersections between artistic practices, technological innovation, and environmental ethics.
  • De-colonial and Indigenous Futures: Inviting discussions on de-colonial approaches and indigenous knowledge in constructing global narratives for the future.
  • Art history
  • Art therapies
  • Art curation and conservation
  • Art, society and social media
  • Literature
  • Liberal arts
  • Area and cultural studies
  • Information and museum studies
  • Folk and traditional arts
  • Classical arts
  • Creative writing
  • New Media, Internet, and digital arts
  • Moving pictures: cinema, film, television, video, multimedia
  • Design technologies
  • Spatial and architectonic arts
  • The art of games and gaming
  • Online cultures, social networks and the arts
  • Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
  • The creative industries in a post-industrial or knowledge society
  • Digital media arts and education
  • Electronic arts, Cyber art, Intermedia
  • Computation art
  • Installation art, robotic art, bioart 
  • Electroacoustic Studies, Electronic Music
  • Sound Design
  • Sound art, Soundscape
  • Music Technology
  • Dance, Drama, Film, Theatre
  • Music, music education
  • Jazz, classical music, popular music
  • Stagecraft
  • Studio art, ceramics
  • Drawing, painting
  • Photography
  • Sculpture
  • Print media

Fibres and material practices

  • Digital humanities
  • Ecological humanities
  • Ethno-cultural studies
  • Health humanities
  • Gender and Women’s studies  
  • Library studies
  • Area studies
  • Museology
  • Media concepts, theories and methods
  • Journalism and the news
  • Media’s role in public relations and marketing
  • Media and youth
  • Social Media
  • Media platform and genre studies 
  • Teaching and learning arts practices
  • Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education
  • Literacy and the literary education
  • Arts pedagogies
  • Art history: purpose and pedagogy
  • Creative arts in the humanities
  • Art as self-inquiry
  • Architecture
  • Fashion design and textile
  • Graphic design
  • Industrial design
  • Interior design
  • Anthropology  
  • Archaeology
  • History
  • Political science
  • Sociology
  • Cultural studies
  • Languages
  • Geography
  • Literature and related disciplines
  • Law and justice
  • Philosophy and religion
  • Political science
  • Reconciliation and peacebuilding

Send Your Abstract

You are invited to send your abstract on or before 18th April 2024 according to given the abstract guidelines. Different registration packages of the conference provide you so many benefits including food, conference pack, abstract book, eligibility to attend the technical sessions, career development workshops, publication opportunities etc. You can select different presentation modes according to your preference. Presentations awards are one of the key elements of the conference. The presenters of the conference will be evaluated by a special committee of academic experts during the conference and best presenters will be awarded at the awarding ceremony.

TAKE YOUR RESEARCH TO THE WORLD!

The 10th International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2023 (ICOAH 2023)

The International Institute of Knowledge Management (TIIKM) in collaboration with Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) is pleased to invite abstracts for its 10th International Conference on Arts and Humanities (ICOAH) 2023, which will take place on September 7-8, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. The theme of the conference is “Collaborative Process, Cooperation, and Multiplicity”, focusing on discovering and understanding the nature of coexisting and co-doing in a multiplicitous world.

Throughout history, humanity’s achievements, growth, and safety have depended on humans’ unique ability to cooperate in large numbers. Equipped with shared goals, values, beliefs, and myths; humanity created nations, legal systems, social orders, and science practices that improved the health, safety, and prosperity of its members. The need to cooperate globally remains crucially relevant today for revitalizing climate actions, for addressing global hostilities and human rights crises, for dealing with inflation and threats of recession, for equalizing access to basic goods across the world’s populations, and for fostering stability and prosperity.

In recent decades, technological proliferation (the Internet, the smartphone, social media, artificial intelligence) has given individuals unprecedented access to knowledge and influence, seemingly undermining their dependence on existing cooperative (governmental, municipal, social, and media) structures. Heightened by the (pandemic-boosted) ubiquity of remote-living culture, individuals have developed more personally configurable, geographically flexible relationships with cooperative structures (social media platforms, cyber communities, online education sites, dotcom and e-commerce companies, etc.). This has created more multiplicitous societies, in which individuals live and perceive their environments in highly diversified manners, with technologies and societal conventions that allow these perceptions and ways of being to flourish and transform.

With this burgeoning multiplicity, fluidity, and individual empowerment; the natures of collaborative process, cooperation, and collectivity have transformed as well, prompting many questions: What makes for effective collaborations in an environment with many voices? What is collectivity in a multiplicitous world? Is individualistic empowerment deleterious to large-scale cooperation? Or can it make it better, more equitable, more inclusive? How can we reap the benefits of large-scale cooperation (safety, scientific advancements, bettering the world) when our objectives, values, perceptions, and needs are so numerous—and often conflicting. How do humans collaborate/cooperate with the non-human (nature, technology, abstract entities, concepts)? What can we learn about collaborative process, cooperation, and multiplicity from the arts?

Join us and share your ongoing projects, creations, research, knowledge, questions, and experiences relevant to collaborative process, cooperation, and multiplicity from across all fields and practices of the arts and humanities. We welcome abstracts of 150 to 200 words. Proposals may include papers, technological demonstrations, workshops, seminars, readings, games, panels, tutorials, posters, and art presentations that are relevant (but not limited) to:

  • Collaborative and cooperative methodologies, processes, mechanisms, and behaviours
  • Equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)
  • Collaborative activism
  • Collaborative art
  • Collaborative research / scholarship
  • Collaborative education / pedagogy
  • Interdisciplinary collaborations
  • Multilocal collaborations
  • Neurodiversity, neuro-multiplicity
  • Collective creativity / Collective imagination
  • Collective improvisation
  • Orchestras, ensembles, and musical bands
  • Dance groups
  • Theatre groups
  • Collaborative live coding
  • Team sports, sports training
  • Synergizing
  • Online / cloud collaborations
  • Human-AI collaboration
  • Sociotechnology
  • Posthumanism
  • Collaborating and coexisting with technology
  • The Internet of Things
  • Blcokchains, decentralized control
  • Technological social design
  • Crowd-based capitalism (Uber, AirBnB, etc.)
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Social media, public shaming, and cancel culture
  • Collaborative and integrative design
  • Critical theories
  • Individualism, collectivism, communalism
  • Bildung
  • Identity and autonomy
  • Constructive interdependence
  • Libertarianism
  • Democracy
  • Governance structures
  • Organizational design
  • Non-hierarchical organization
  • Leadership / followership
  • Developing common purposes
  • Community engagement
  • Dispute resolution mechanisms
  • Peace negotiations
  • Peaceful coexistence
  • Emergence Theory
  • Complex systems science
  • Social science game theory
  • Workplace hierarchy forms
  • Labour unions
  • Collective engagement in the workplace
  • Teamwork

These and all other topics in the arts and humanities are welcome.

You are invited to submit your abstract (Limited Slots Available) according to given the abstract guidelines. Different registration packages for the conference provide you so many benefits including food,  conference pack, abstract book, eligibility to attend the technical sessions, career development workshops, publication opportunities etc. You can select different presentation modes according to your preference. Presentation awards are one of the key elements of the conference. The presenters of the conference will be evaluated by a special committee of academic experts during the conference and best presenters will be awarded at the awarding ceremony.

Please send any questions to the conference organizers

Ms. Kokila Hemakumara

International Relations Executive
kokila.h@tiikmedu.com

Dr. Eldad Tsabary

Conference Chair
eldad.tsabary@concordia.ca

Conference Tracks

Disciplines are open and may include the following:

  • Digital humanities
  • Ecological humanities
  • Ethno-cultural studies
  • Health humanities
  • Gender and Women’s studies
  • Library studies
  • Area studies
  • Museology
  • Electronic arts, Cyber art, Intermedia
  • Computation art
  • Installation art, robotic art, bioart
  • Electroacoustic Studies, Electronic Music
  • Sound Design
  • Sound art, Soundscape
  • Music Technology
  • Dance, Drama, Film, Theatre
  • Music, music education
  • Jazz, classical music, popular music
  • Stagecraft
  • Studio art, ceramics
  • Drawing, painting
  • Photography
  • Sculpture
  • Print media
  • Fibres and material practices
  • Art history
  • Art therapies
  • Art curation and conservation
  • Art, society and social media
  • Literature
  • Liberal arts
  • Area and cultural studies
  • Information and museum studies
  • Folk and traditional arts
  • Classical arts
  • Creative writing
  • New Media, Internet, and digital arts
  • Moving pictures: cinema, film, television, video, multimedia
  • Design technologies
  • Spatial and architectonic arts
  • The art of games and gaming
  • Online cultures, social networks and the arts
  • Multimedia, mixed media and multimodal arts
  • The creative industries in a post-industrial or knowledge society
  • Digital media arts and education
  • Teaching and learning arts practices
  • Multimodal literacies, multiliteracies in arts education
  • Literacy and the literary education
  • Arts pedagogies
  • Art history: purpose and pedagogy
  • Creative arts in the humanities
  • Art as self-inquiry
  • Media concepts, theories and methods
  • Journalism and the news
  • Media’s role in public relations and marketing
  • Media and youth
  • Social Media
  • Media platform and genre studies
  • Architecture
  • Fashion design and textile
  • Graphic design
  • Industrial design
  • Interior design
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • History
  • Political science
  • Sociology
  • Cultural studies
  • Languages
  • Geography
  • Literature and related disciplines
  • Law and justice
  • Philosophy and religion
  • Political science
  • Reconciliation and peacebuilding
  • Psychology

Ms. Kalpana Madavie

+94 77 274 1265
+94 11 799 2022
secretariat@fineartsconference.com

Ms. Chanika Gunathilake

+94 70 330 9862
chanika.g@tiikmedu.com

Ms. Sajini Shashikala

+94 71 560 7278
+94 11 799 2022
sajini.s@tiikmedu.com

Ms. Dilki Sewmini

+94 74 152 3423
+94 11 784 4554
dilki.s@tiikm.com

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