[Commlist] CfP Art and Human Rights International Conference

*Art and Human Rights International Conference*, taking place 20-21 May 
2021, in Lisbon, Portugal.

About.
Within the scope of the current human rights challenges our world is 
facing, arts have been striving to be recognized as a fundamental place 
for debate and critical thinking, as well as a catalyst for collective 
awareness and empathy. Exploring topics that range from climate change 
to the refugee crisis, from discrimination to authoritarian regimes 
affirmation, several events are prompting artists, both individually and 
collectively, to rethink the role of art as an agent for social change. 
In the last decade, several projects were created in countries that 
continually suffered human rights violations, such as Syria, Yemen, 
Nigeria, Somalia, and others, which enrich our current knowledge and 
challenge our perspectives on artistic practices and ways of working 
around freedom of expression. In the face of current circumstances and 
having in mind the increase of information shared globally, the 
relevance of artistic productions as a tool for debate and political 
intervention becomes more evident. Indeed, we can currently find 
numerous civic movements, collectives, activists and organizations 
collaborating with artists to enrich their projects and amplify their 
values and messages. Succeeding some influential manuals created by 
different collectives at the end of the 1980’s and during the 1990’s in 
the USA, new reflections have been emerging to systemize operating modes 
within the designated “guerrilla art” such as, per example, Beautiful 
Trouble – Toolbox for Revolution (2012) or Truth is Concrete – A 
Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Realpolitics (2014). These artistic 
practices became known through different terms, such as “socially 
engaged art”, “participatory art”, “community art”, “relational art”, 
“political art”, “artistic activism” or “artivism”. While we can 
identify the singularities of each of these designations, they share and 
converge within a common space  focusing on the call for human rights 
and, more widely, on human dignity. From a theoretical and academic 
perspective, these practices have been object of study by different 
authors – such as Nina Felshin (1995), Nicholas Bourriaud (1998), Miwon 
Kwon (2002), Grant Kester (2004, 2011), Claire Bishop (2006, 2012), 
Jacques Rancière (2009), Gregory Shoelette (2011), Shannon Jackson 
(2011) or Tom Finkelpearl (2013) – who have contributed to their study 
and discussion through different approaches. With the drive to 
contribute and advance on the reflection of theories and practices on 
the field, this conference opens up as a meeting for researchers, 
artists, activists and other agents that are working on the 
intersections of art and human rights around the globe.


*Call for papers open* until 18th december 2020 (no payment from the 
authors will be required)

*Proposed topics for submissions:*
-       art and social change;
-    socially engaged art, participatory art and community art for human 
rights;
-       art and censorship;
-       art and freedom of expression;
-       art projects about human rights;
-       art and activism strategies;
-       artistic freedom in challenging contexts;
-       art and conflict resolution;
-       arts and culture as a human right.

Communication and Media Studies scholars are welcome.

*Authors should submit their proposal through an online form, available 
here: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arthric2021​; 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arthric2021>

More information on the conference: 
https://artandhumanrightsconference.weebly.com/

Contact: (artandhumanrightsconference /at/ gmail.com)


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