Dear List Members,

Please kindly circulate this message also among your colleagues who may be interested in the Art of South Asia.

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/). It is published by the Polish Institute of World Art Studies (http://www.world-art.pl/), which in 2025 celebrated 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 which include eight monographs and collective volumes, together with materials from conferences organised by the Institute in its periodicals and publication series (beside approx. 400 volumes on World Art in English, Polish, Italian, Spanish, or Chinese, https://world-art.pl/repozytorium-i-publikacje/).

Manuscripts may contain colour or black-and-white plates.

– Article submission deadline (extended): 31 October 2026

– Peer review notification: within two months after submission

– Volume Publication: mid–2027

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.

With best regards,

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/