The call for proposals for the Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium invites proposals for both the online session on November 15, 2024 and in-person session at Uniarts Helsinki on November 22, 2024.
The scope of the call for proposals comprises all art forms. This includes, but is not limited to, contexts related to the visual arts, performing arts, music, arts administration and policy, art activism and advocacy, as well as different contexts of education and pedagogy, such as primary/secondary/higher education; artist pedagogy; curatorial and museum education; and public pedagogy.
The language of the symposium is English.
The deadline for the call for proposals is June 15, 2024 (12:59 Finnish time UTC+3).
Notices of acceptance will be sent out by mid-August 2024.
While this call is open to a general theme of neurodiversity in the arts, we ask that you review the Position Statement by the Symposium Organizers.
On the symposium website, we have provided guiding questions for proposals in the Call for Proposals section. Please note that it is not a requirement to address these guiding questions in your proposals.
Session formats:
- Individual presentation: An individual presentation refers to scholarly, visual, performative, and other multimodal presentations. The suggested duration is 30 minutes including discussion.
- Panel: A panel is a proposal consisting of two or more presentations that address a related topic/idea, one outlined by the proposers. We encourage alternate formats that might include discussions among researchers, educators, leaders, and activists. The suggested duration is 60 minutes including discussion.
- Workshop: Workshops are intended to foster critical and public dialogue around particular artistic practices and engage participants with easily accessible materials. This year we encourage workshops centered around experiential learning. The suggested duration is 30-60 minutes including discussion.
- Art in Action: We value all forms of creative engagement, including investigations that happen within and outside the typical studio/stages space, such as placed-based, site-specific, and embodied arts The suggested duration is 30-60 minutes including discussion. (For Art in Action proposals, you may submit a PDF containing images or links to media in addition to completing the required fields in the proposal submission system.)
About Session formats:
- We seek to organize the sessions by following a crip time approach to their duration.
- Session lengths may vary according presenters’ access needs, context of the presentation, and personal preference for ways of being and presenting in the session space.
- We provide suggested time frames for each session format as a general reference based on past conferences, but presenters are encouraged to propose an estimated duration of their session in the submission form.
- While breaks will be generously scheduled between all session blocks, presenters may also include time and space for pause and rest within the session without concern or requirement to reduce the presentation content.
- This approach to the symposium scheduling will take form as an open, flexible, and engaged negotiation with the conference organizers.
- We will prioritize working to schedule sessions according to presenters’ preferred duration as best as we can within the overall symposium schedule.
Proposal Length:
Proposals may be submitted as written texts or as voice or video recordings. Video or audio formats are for those who prefer to submit a spoken proposal abstract rather than a written proposal abstract. The symposium session itself may take any form of expression, but for consistency of proposal evaluation, we require that all proposal abstracts are language-based (either written or spoken). Please limit recording files to 10MB.
Word lengths and voice/video durations are suggested to offer flexibility, but we ask that proposals do not exceed these suggestions by too much (as to avoid excessive workload for evaluators).
- Individual Session and Workshop Proposals: Suggestion is 300 words or 4 minutes for recording*
- Panel Session Proposals: Suggestion is 500 words or 7 minutes for recording* including panel theme and panelist proposals.
- Art in Action Proposals: Suggestion is 300 words or 4 minutes for recording* and optional PDF (10MB max) file for media.
Please remove any identifying information in the proposal abstract. If you submit a video or recorded proposal, we will transcribe the recording to text for evaluation, so that your identity will be concealed.
Contact for inquiries (no proposal submissions): neuroarts@uniarts.fi