BUDAPEST 3rd International Conference on Arts & Heritage Studies: BAHS-27

Call for papers/Topics

All Abstracts, Reviews, short articles, Full articles, Posters are welcomed related with any of the following research fields:

Cultural Heritage & Memory

• Material culture and artifact analysis

• Intangible cultural heritage, traditions, and oral histories

• Cultural memory, monuments, and memorialization

• Dark heritage, contested histories, and difficult heritage sites

• Digital heritage, scanning, and virtual preservation

Art History & Visual Culture

• Periodization, movement analysis, and stylistic evolution

• Iconography, symbolism, and semiotics

• Materiality, artistic technique, and medium analysis

• Visual culture, media theories, and spectator theory

• Provenance research and art historiography

Museum Studies & Curatorial Practice

• Curatorial theory, exhibition design, and narrative construction

• Collections management, registration, and preventive conservation

• Museum ethics, repatriation, and decolonization of collections

• Visitor experience, audience engagement, and museum pedagogy

• Archival practice and digital asset management

Heritage Management & Conservation Science

• Architectural conservation and built environment heritage

• Artifact conservation, chemistry, and degradation analysis

• Heritage site management, carrying capacity, and sustainable tourism

• Risk management, disaster preparedness, and climate impact on heritage

• Cultural landscape preservation and UNESCO World Heritage frameworks

Arts Administration & Cultural Policy

• Cultural policy, state funding, and arts advocacy

• Cultural economics, art markets, and auction house operations

• Intellectual property, copyright, and moral rights in the arts

• Cultural governance, non-profit management, and philanthropy

• Community arts, public art, and placemaking

Sociology & Philosophy of Art

• Aesthetics, critical theory, and philosophy of art

• Art, identity, gender, and postcolonial perspectives

• Sociology of taste, institutional critique, and elite culture

• Indigenous knowledge systems and traditional ecological knowledge

• Art as social practice and activist art movements