The ESArts2025 Scientific Committee is working on different sessions and roundtables to ensure an attractive scientific content for the congress that will be added online in the coming weeks.

For the moment, we can advance who are the invited speakers for the opening keynote, the closing keynote and the semi-plenary session and the title of the congress roundtables.

INVITED SPEAKERS

  • OPENING KEYNOTE: Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths) Fashion-Art and Urban Creative Economy: Gender, Work and Cultural Production

Angela McRobbie, Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Glasgow University. Her research expertise is on creative economy and the fashion industry with reference to the small-scale independent sector. Angela is also a feminist social and cultural theorist looking at the gendered dynamics of contemporary neoliberal society.

  • CLOSING KEYNOTE: Nathalie Heinich (EHESS) From the Sociology of Art to a Pragmatic Sociology of Valuation

Nathalie Heinich is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS, member of the CRAL (Centre de recherches sur les arts et le langage: EHESS), and LAHIC (Laboratoire d’anthropologie et d’histoire sur l’institution de la culture).  Devoted to the social history of the notion of the artist, she has specialized in the sociology of artistic professions and cultural practices while at the same time developing a reflection on identity crises, on the epistemology of the social sciences and on the sociology of values.

  • INVITED SEMIPLENARY:  Dagmar Danko (University of Music Freiburg) Becker, the Arts, and Sociology

Dagmar Danko is a sociologist of art and culture, currently working at the University of Music Freiburg where she coordinates cooperative research structures. She completed her doctorate in sociology with a thesis on the significance of contemporary art in social theories. She has published an introduction to the sociology of art (2012) and an analysis of the work of Howard S. Becker (2015), which will appear in a second, revised edition in 2025.


ROUNDTABLES

  • Artistic and Creative Place-making in the Cities
  • Art, IA and Other Discontents
  • Music Sociology
  • After Artistic Hegemony in Cultural Policy
  • Art-Based Research Methods