Paradox conferences are developed by artist educators and provide an international forum for arts and educational practitioners, and their stakeholders, to meet and discuss education, teaching, practice and research.

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Trinh T. Minh-ha

The 2017 conference is a meeting that offers opportunity to exchange ideas, practices, provocations and research that relate to core themes around issues of diversity in the contemporary landscape of higher education fine art.
Diverse Knowledge; Diverse Ethics; Diverse Means, Diverse Aesthetics

AAH2017 will celebrate the expansive spectrum of histories, theories and practices that characterize art historical research today. Internationally, the field of art history is eclectic and inclusive, reaching across geopolitical, cultural and disciplinary divides to extend our understanding of the visual and material culture of many diverse periods and places.

The Permeate Symposium offers an opportunity for intensive examination of themes explored in the Permeable Edge exhibition.

Keynote speakers include Professor Shaun McNiff (USA), Malcolm Ross (UK), Professor Carole Gray and Professor Julian Malins (UK). The conference will be led by Professor Ross Prior of the University of Wolverhampton and Principal Editor of the Journal of Applied Arts & Health.