ISIE's 2024 Online Emerging Scholars Symposium

The 2024 symposium will bring emerging scholars and established experts together to generate new ideas about the history and legacy of international expositions. We seek to emphasize new and developing strategies for research, curation, and preservation in order to maximize outreach opportunities. We want to facilitate both scholarly and popular understandings of the significance of these global events that serve as mirrors of concurrent (both real and visionary) political, cultural, and technological conditions of the times in which they were held. Our aim is that participants will leave the symposium with both new understandings and insights into the study of expositions as well as stronger connections to the global community of scholars from a vast range of disciplines involved in the study of expositions.

​In addition to paper sessions, the symposium will include a roundtable event focused on the Institute, as well as opportunities to informally socialize and network with others sharing related interests. We also invite those interested in the study of world’s fairs to become involved in the future development of ISIE.

We encourage both graduate students and early career scholars interested in presenting their research in a friendly, supportive environment to apply.

To submit a proposal, please send a 250-300 word abstract and a CV to [email protected] or [email protected]. You must be registered for the symposium by 28 Febraury 2024 to be eligible to present at the event.

For further information on either the symposium or ISIE in general, please visit http://ISIE-global.org. Please also feel free to reach out to either of the Symposium Chairs:

or ISIE at: [email protected], URL: http://ISIE-global.org

This symposium is being made possible thanks to generous support from the College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona and the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University, Australia.