Venice, 15-16 October 2026
Submission of abstracts: 1st March 2026
Topics
Suggested topics for submission include, but are not limited to:
- Plurilingual Practices in Museum Education: strategies for making exhibitions and programmes inclusive, accessible, and engaging for plurilingual visitors; challenging dominant cultural and linguistic norms; impacting visitors’ linguistic, social, emotional, and cultural connections
- Arts-Based Plurilingual Pedagogies: using art and creative methods to promote learners’ linguistic and (inter-)cultural experimentation across different learning contexts. These include, but are not limited to, art-based lessons (e.g. collage-making, a/r/tography), drama and improv-focused activities, language arts lessons (e.g. creative writing, digital storytelling, podcasting, etc), and linguistic landscaping.
- Multimodal and Multiliteracies Pedagogies: research on how multimodal orchestration of teaching and learning can be applied to arts-based approaches; investigation of students’ multimodal meaning-making as part of their learning experience; investigation of students’ engagement with plurilingual/translingual literature.
- Curriculum Development: designing integrated curricula that connect language education, art appreciation, and cultural heritage across the classroom and the region.
- Professional Development: training formal and non-formal educators to implement plurilingual practices in multilingual arts and museum contexts effectively; fostering the collaboration between schools and other institutions/practitioners to promote plurilingualism.
- Social and Educational Impact: research on how plurilingual approaches in public spaces contribute to social justice, identity construction, and community engagement.
We are particularly interested in submissions featuring practical applications and best practices from diverse international contexts and actors, including researchers, educators, teachers, and artists.
Submission guidelines
- Abstracts should be in English and no more than 300 words (excluding references)
- All submissions must adhere to the APA citation style
- Submission by 1st March 2026.
Notification of acceptance: 12 April 2026.
