The Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A
"(In)Hospitable Bodies: Sounding a Space between New Music and Medicine"
Co-founder, City of Asylum, U.S.A
"City of Asylum: Building Community by Welcoming the Stranger"
Visual Artist and Photographer, Puerto Rico
"The Museum of the Old Colony Does The Old World"
Cofundadora de Believe in Art, Zaragoza, España
"El papel del arte en la humanización hospitalaria y la salud"
Professor and Director of the Center for the Arts in Society, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Research Network Chair
(English)
Full Professor, Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza, Spain
(Spanish)
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. Emerging Scholars perform a critical role in the conference by chairing the parallel sessions, providing technical assistance in the sessions, and presenting their own research papers. The 2025 Emerging Scholar Award Recipients are as follows:
University of Surrey, UK
(In-Person)
Durban University of Technology, South Africa
(In-Person)
University of Surrey, UK
(In-Person)
CUNY Graduate Center, USA
(In-Person)
Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
(In-Person)
University of Iowa, USA
(In-Person)
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
(In-Person)
University of Surrey, UK
(Online Only)
Busan National University of Education, South Korea
(Online Only)
University of Wisconsin, USA
(Online Only)
Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, France
(Online Only)
Pittsburgh, USA
Pittsburgh, USA