Call for submissions

Arts Matters 2025 submissions

We are pleased to invite undergraduate students in humanities, social sciences, and creative disciplines to apply to share their work at the 10th Arts Matters Conference. Arts Matters is an interdisciplinary conference, so we encourage submissions from a wide range of subject areas. We will be accepting abstracts and project descriptions from all social sciences, humanities, and liberal arts disciplines. Participation in Arts Matters is FREE.

We are accepting abstracts for conference presentations in either French or English and we encourage the submission of creative work and multimedia projects* as well.

We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to share their academic work and creative projects. Students are encouraged to submit academic and creative work on all topics.

Participants can also choose to submit work that speaks to our conference theme. This year’s theme is "Learning through community: collaborative approaches to creating and knowing".

If you have a project that you would love to share but you don’t know if it fits, please send us your abstract as we are looking to build a highly diverse program of presentations.

Accepted presenters will be invited to give a 12-15 minute presentation during one of the conference panels on March 21 and 22, 2025.

*If you plan to present a creative project with a visual component (e.g. visual art project, digital art, etc), include images of your work with your project description.

Registration to attend the conference will open in 2025.

For more info, email engagearts@unb.ca.

Deadlines

The deadline for conference presentation submissions is Feb. 24, 2025.

Artwork: We also showcase student artwork and creative projects at our conference. Students interested in presenting artwork or creative projects can choose to display their work and give a presentation or just display their work during the conference. Submissions of artwork only are also due Feb. 24, 2025.

Apply to present at the 2025 Arts Matters Conference taking place March 20-22, 2025.

* Name

* Email

* The university you attend and your program of study

* What subject area does your submission fall into?

* What type of work do you wish to submit?

Please select... Oral presentation of written academic work with slides Oral presentation of written academic work without slides Oral presentation of creative writing (poetry, short stories, plays, etc) Oral presentation of multimedia work (media arts, digital work, etc) Oral presentation with film / video content Artwork with oral presentation Artwork only (display only, no oral presentation) Other, please describe below in the “brief project description box"

* Project or submission title

Attach a word document of your abstract or project description (no pdfs please)

Brief description of your submission

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