Dear List Members,

Please kindly circulate this message also among your colleagues who may be interested.

We invite articles of experts of South Asia, art historians, Indologists, scholars of religion and culture as well as representatives from associated fields of study that engage with the Art of South Asia – from Antiquity to modern times – in interconnected areas of broadly understood art, such as fine arts, iconography, architecture, literature on art and artistic treatises, visual arts, traditional dance and theatre, connections of art with religion and with intellectual culture, influences of South Asian art on, and its relationship to other regions, e.g. Central Asia, South-East Asia etc.

The articles will be published in a special issue of The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures (ISSN: 2450-5692, http://artistic-tradition-of-non-european-culture.world-art.pl/), a journal devoted to study of non-European art and artistic culture and its artistic relationships with art of Europe. It is prepared and published by the Polish Institute of World Art Studies (http://www.world-art.pl/), which in 2025 celebrates the 25th a­nniversary of its foundation. The Institute has published 15 monographs devoted to the art of India as well as South and South-East Asia. These include eight monographs and collective volumes, together with materials from conferences organised by the Institute in its periodicals and publication series.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Manuscripts may contain colour or black-and-white plates.

– Article submission deadline: 31 May 2026

– Peer review notification: within two months after submission

– Volume Publication: end of 2026

The contributions should be sent to the addresses: biuro@world-art.pl, piotrbalcerowicz1@gmail.com

Please see the attachment for further details and for Author guidelines.

The editors

Prof. Dr. Jerzy Malinowski (President of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies) http://www.world-art.pl/

Prof. Dr. Piotr Balcerowicz (the University of Warsaw), http://balcerowicz.eu/, https://indologia.uw.edu.pl/o-katedrze/kadra/piotr-balcerowicz/