[Commlist] 2nd CCVA PhD Forum Call for Paper

The 2nd CCVA PhD Forum
Call for Paper

Date: Friday 21 June 2024
Venue: School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK (In-person only event)

The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University 
aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese 
contemporary arts, design, and visual culture through interdisciplinary 
practices and theoretical studies. Following the 16-year success of our 
CCVA Annual Conference, which invites researchers, curators, artists, 
designers, and practitioners at all stages of their careers to share the 
latest research development on the theme proposed each year, we 
inaugurated the first CCVA PhD Forum on June 30th, 2023. This new forum 
provided a platform for scholars and doctoral students from the UK, 
China, and Austria, among other locations, to present and engage in 
dialogue about their doctoral research.

In response to the increase of doctoral projects in the field of Chinese 
arts, design, media, and visual culture, this CCVA PhD Forum is designed 
as a UK-wide platform to support PhD students further, enhance 
intellectual exchanges of ideas and critical debates, expand 
participation of young generation scholars, and celebrate our 
achievement of up-to-date doctoral research. As a summer event to 
complement our winter conference, the CCVA PhD Forum aims to provide a 
unique space for all students within and beyond the UK, who are 
conducting doctoral research, new PhDs (awarded within 12 months on 7 
July 2023), as well as for supervisors, advisors, and examiners, and 
those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in the future, to share, 
debate and innovate.
Unlike our Annual Conference, the CCVA PhD Forum will not be themed. It 
welcomes proposals to present their PhD projects in any subject area of 
the arts and design but in relation to China and its dramatic 
transformations in the social, political, and cultural contexts. We see 
China as a method to encourage and foster cross-disciplinary discussion, 
new understanding, and knowledge production, and at the same time, as a 
focus to bring us closer to each other.
Presentations should last no more than 20 minutes. Forum fee: £40. 
Please note that this Forum will be in person only.

To apply, please include all the following information in one file and 
send it to (Yining.He /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk) and (ccva /at/ bcu.ac.uk), with the email 
subject ‘CCVA PhD Forum 2’, by 31 March 2024.
Information to be included in the application file:
1) Name
2) Email address
3) University and Department
4) PhD topic
5) PhD start year
6) Shot biography (not extending 100 words)
7) Abstract (not extending 300 words)


Submitted proposals will be reviewed by CCVA PhD Forum Panel. Successful 
proposals will be notified within two weeks after the deadline.

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