Applicants wishing to present in either of the two sessions of this colloquium are required to complete the Application Form for Speakers and to upload the following PDF files here.
(1) An abstract of no more than 250 words (file name: “Surname_Abstract”)
(2) A C.V. of no more than 150 words (file name: “Surname_CV”)
The application form, abstract, and C.V. should be written in English, although both English and French are designated as the official languages of CIHA colloquia, and speakers may prepare their papers in either English or French. The application and abstract submission period is from March 1 to May 15, 2026.
Committee members of CIHA will select speakers for the two sessions and personally notify each applicant of the result by the end of August. Names of the speakers will be announced at this website, as well as titles of their papers, in September after confirming the will of the selected applicants.
Each speaker will be allowed twenty minutes to read his/her/their paper, followed by ten minutes of discussion. They will be required to send their full paper and PowerPoint file beforehand to the Secretary (deadline to be announced).
All speakers will be provided with hotel accommodation, including breakfast, for up to three nights, lunch for two days, and will be invited to a farewell dinner on the evening of January 14.
For speakers from overseas, the Japanese Committee for CIHA will provide travel expenses of up to JPY 100,000 per presentation.
The following is a random list of topics speakers may take for their papers to read in either of the two sessions:
Collections
- Collecting and displaying foreign and ethnographic art
- Artists’ migration and collections
- Memories of travel and collecting
- The formation and dispersal of global collections
- Decolonizing museum displays
- Contemporary art and museum collections
- Objects in religious collections: from the profane to the sacred
- Overseas collections of Japanese religious art
Crafts
- Ceremonial objects and their collection (e.g. tea ceremony, ikebana, the way of incense)
- Religious cultures and the development of craft techniques
- Sacred craftworks – relics and ritual adornment
- Arms and musical instruments as composite crafts
- Craft design and painting
- The reception of East Asian crafts in Europe
- Arts and Crafts movements and similar phenomena around the world
- The history and significance of the Mingei movement
- Craftworks created for foreign markets
- The transmission of traditional crafts through modern educational institutions and their industrialization
- From modern crafts to the contemporary interior design industry
- From crafts to installation art
Source: https://ciha-colloquium-2027.studio.site/call-for-papers
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