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10th Anniversary Symposium
Penn State University
Oct. 2 - 4, 2025

Schedule

Register

Click here to download a document with the below information.

Registration to participate in the AERI Symposium is necessary for those who are participating in-person, as well as all presenters. There is an early bird discount. Please note that there is also a registration fee for doctoral students. The registration fee provides access to the symposium, as well as break refreshments, receptions on Thursday & Saturday, and lunch on Friday & Saturday.
 
How to register
Please complete the following steps:
Pay registration fee here: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/W9PLNA6XB7QB4
Complete registration form here: https://forms.gle/1tBQioWAr8iceoGd8

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Registration Fees


Early bird registration fees (before 15 July 2025)

Early bird registration fee: 85 USD

Doctoral student early bird registration fee: 8 USD


General registration fees (after 15 July 2025)

General registration fee: 100 USD

Doctoral student regular registration: 10 USD

Travel

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Please let us know by Sept. 29 with an email to aeri2025pennstate@gmail.com if you would like a parking pass for Thursday at the Palmer Museum of Art. Click here for more details on visiting the Palmer Art Museum. Alternatively, to take a Penn State CATA bus to the Palmer Museum of Art, use the free Blue Loop or White Loop shuttle, or the Red Link bus, which are available to the public and travel directly to the museum on the University Park campus. Download the Penn State Go app for real-time tracking of your shuttle’s location and to find the most current route information. Click here for a map of the Palmer Art Museum and East Parking Deck.

Accommodations

You are responsible for traveling to and from the symposium, as well as accommodation. We have reserved discounted room blocks at two hotels in downtown State College. To reserve a single or double room, please click on the following key portals: 

Presenters

We look forward to your research presentation at the AERI Symposium held at The Pennsylvania State University.

 

The full AERI symposium schedule is above. Please indicate on the form linked here any corrections needed on the schedule. Each session will include three paper presentations, each lasting 20 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for a collective response by the discussant and 15 minutes for Q&A with the audience.

 

To help ensure a smooth and insightful discussion, please reply to the form linked here and upload your 2000-word paper, or presentation with 1000 words by Friday, 5th September. This will allow the discussant ample time to review your work and prepare thoughtful commentary.

 

There will be graduate student tech support to assist in uploading your presentation. Please arrive 20-minutes prior to your session venue to upload your presentation.

 

Lastly, as coordinators of the AERI Symposium, please keep us informed if your plans change regarding travel for in-person engagement at the AERI symposium.

Graduate students

Pecha Kucha Poster (PKP) Presentations.

 

We look forward to your presentation at the AERI Graduate Research Pecha Kucha Poster (PKP) sessions held at The Pennsylvania State University.

 

As coordinators of the AERI Symposium, please keep us informed if your plans change regarding travel for in-person engagement at the AERI symposium on Saturday, October 4, 2:00- 3:45 PM EST. We have details and schedule linked here.

 

So that AERI Research Steering Committee members can prepare their facilitation of questions and feedback, and to have all the PKP presentations pre-loaded on computers prior to the session, please upload your poster here by Sept. 5, 2025.

Discussants

As chair and discussant for the session, responsibilities include:

  • Read the papers before the symposium and prepare brief comments

    • ​Based on this year’s steering committee meeting feedback on discussant expectations, we encourage you to think of a theme that threads across each of the papers, and develop one question for all presenters based on the thematic thread.

  • Introduce the presenters at the start of the session.

  • Oversee the timings of each session. Each of the 3 presenters is allocated 20 minutes.

  • Provide a 5-minute response after the three 20-minute paper presentations.

  • Open the floor for 15 minutes of questions.

  • Conclude session.

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank for following individuals and sponsors for their support of the 10th Annual Art Education Research Symposium: 

 

Dean B Stephen Carpenter Sessions, the Michael J. and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Endowed Dean’s Chair in the College of Arts and Architecture

 

University of Arkansas, Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences

Christopher Schulte, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

 

Palmer Museum of Art

 

Penn State School of Visual Arts

 

Tyler Denmead & Ryan Shin, former chairs of AERI 2023 and 2024 symposia

 

AERI Research Steering Committee who serve as reviewers and discussants

 

Youngjoo Kim, creator of the 10 anniversary AERI logo, and the many other art education doctoral students who assisted including Adebola Adalamo, Marie Huard, Nashormeh Lindo, and Yi-Ning Zhao 

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