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Sunday, March 2, 2025

Sacred Arts 2025: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual

development of iconography and other art of religious significance? How can archaeological findings tell us more about the history of the sacred in our psyche?

We welcome 15-minute presentations of either academic or creative form.

Central topics include, but are not limited to:

- Iconography: process, meaning, making, and using
- Calligraphy
- Ekphrastic responses to sacred art (such as icons)
- Art-based rituals in spiritual practice
- Cross-cultural interactions and influences
- Archaeological discoveries through these artefacts
- Modes of interaction between different cultures/faiths in the creation and use of artefacts with religious significance
- Spiritual architecture
- Special processes and techniques in iconography
- Renovation of artefacts
- Sacred music
- Food in religious practice
- Religious sculpture
- Classicism and neo-classicist approaches to religion through art
- The Renaissance
- Religious symbols in art of ancient civilizations
- The contemporary use of ancient religious symbols in art, fashion, and rituals
- Comparative religion
- Religious manuscripts
- Interdisciplinary conversations
- Consciousness and the imaginal realm
- Archetypal expressions
- Spiritual symbolism
- Mythology as methodology
- Alchemical symbolism

Held at the University of Oxford (as well as online), this two-day hybrid conference will take place on 10-11 May, 2025.

Presenters may either share academic papers and/or creative work (poetry, prose, photography, music, painting, etc.), as we highly encourage arts-based research, as well as research which stimulates reflection on creativity, image, symbol and archetype.

Please fill out our proposal form (by March 22, 2025) on https://forms.gle/D38qMGfNvmaGegJm9

We will be announcing our plenary speakers and the full programme of the conference will be ready after the presenters are selected.

Organised by: London Arts-Based Research Centre

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