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Art History/Visual Culture
Center for Arts and Culture
http://www.culturalpolicy.org/
College Art Association
International Exchange programs
http://www.collegeart.org/caa/aboutcaa/committees/pips/internati...
Dance
Association for Asian Performance (AAP)
http://mason.gcsu.edu/aaponline
Association for Asian Performance, a focus group of ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education), promotes the study and teaching of all aspects of Asian performance. AAP publishes Asian Theatre Journal, organizes an annual conference, issues a newsletter, and provides online access to syllabi and videos of Asian performance.
Conseil International de la Danse
http://www.unesco.org/ngo/cid/index.php
The International Dance Council (CID), founded in 1973, is the UNESCO official umbrella organization for all forms of dance in all countries of the world. CID advises UNESCO, as well as national and local government agencies, international organizations and institutions. CID organizes conferences and maintains the Global Dance Directory.
CORD Committee on Research in Dance
http://www.cordance.org/
Founded in 1965, CORD encourages scholarship in all areas of dance. CORD serves its international membership of teachers, students, writers, performers, choreographers, researchers, archivists and librarians, as well as universities and libraries, through joint conferences with dance and theatre organizations. CORD publishes Dance Research Journal twice yearly, as well as a newsletter.
Dance Critics Association
http://www.criticaldance.com/index.html
The Dance Critics Association, created in 1973, organizes national and regional conferences for critics, editors, writers, scholars, dancers and choreographers and publishes a quarterly newsletter.
Dance Heritage Coalition
Society of Dance History Scholars
http://www.sdhs.org/index.html
Organized as network in 1978 and incorporated in 1983, the Society of Dance History Scholars (SDHS) promotes the study of dance history, broadly conceived to include the Western theatrical dance from Renaissance and Baroque court entertainments to postmodern dance theater; non-Western dance; and popular dance forms from the waltz to the tango. SDHC organizes an annual conference and publishes Studies in Dance History (a monograph series). See the Resources page of the SDHS website for excellent collection of links related to the study of dance history.
Media/Film/Photography
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
http://www.cmstudies.org/
Established in 1959, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies promotes all areas of media studies within the academy, encourages communication with the media industry, the government, and the public, and supports the preservation of our film, television, and video heritage. Members include college and university educators, filmmakers, historians, critics, scholars, archivists, and others. SCMS organizes an annual conference and publishes Cinema Journal. Members have access to online job listings.
The Association of Independents in Radio, Microphones
http://www.airmedia.org/resources/microphones.html
Over its fifteen year history -- with conferences, mentorship, on-line resources and a variety of advocacy activities -- AIR has given independents a sense of community, visibility and clout as it acts to make the US public radio system a more professionally rewarding work place. Incorporated (as a not-for-profit organization) in New York City in 1988 thanks to the vision and foresight of a handful of independent producers and freelance reporters, AIR has grown to include not only public radio's best independent storytellers, documentarians, engineers and marketers, but an ever diverse range of public, community and college radio professionals, programmers, stations, and networks.
Music
Center for Black Music Research
http://www.cbmr.org/
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago. The CBMR is devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale. This site provides a range of information about CBMR activities, including conference, fellowships, library and archives, musical styles and genres, outreach and performances, and publications.
Society for Ethnomusicology
http://www.indiana.edu/~ethmusic/
New Media
ANAT (Australian Network for Art and Technology)
http://www.anat.org.au/home.htm
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
http://www.asci.org/artikel384.html
Banff New Media Institute
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=36
Digital Storytelling Association
InterSpace New Media Art Center
Ljubljaha Digital Media Lab
Multimedia Art Asia Pacific
New York Digital Salon
http://www.nydigitalsalon.com/mission.php
Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies
http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/
Rhizome at the New Museum
The Arts Electronica
http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp
The Netherlands Media Art Institute
http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
Theater
Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
http://www.hawaii.edu/theatre/index.htm
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education promotes excellence in theatre education. ATHE’s Performance Studies Focus Group provides a forum for interdisciplinary research and organizes a pre-conference in conjunction with ATHE’s annual conference.
ASTR American Society for Theatre Research
International Brecht Society
http://german.lss.wisc.edu/brecht/
International Federation for Theatre Research
http://www.firt-iftr.org/firt/home.jsp
Society for Theatre Research (UK)
Theatre Library Association
University of Bristol Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television
http://www.bris.ac.uk/drama
The Department offers a lively inter-disciplinary environment for the practice and study of performance and representation across a range of forms and media, underpinned by dedicated teaching and world-class research.
