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Sophia Journal International Conferences are held annually under a hybrid mode, with a live and video-conference programme promoted and organised by the Architecture, Art and Image (AAI) research group of the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP) in collaboration with other institutional partners.
This new series of international conferences gives continuity to the former On the Surface: Photography and Architecture international conferences, whose first edition dates back to 2010. Sophia Journal International Conferences result directly from the Call of the peer-reviewed and indexed Sophia Journal and have as base the blind review selection of papers to be publish in the journal, as well as the set of Visual Essays which are selected by the Editors. The International Conference takes place before the final stage of publishing, thus expanding the debate and giving opportunity to the authors to incorporate the discussions in the future published work.
The programme usually encompasses different thematic sections, defined by the editors of each Sophia Journal issue after a selection of papers from the Call that takes place in each Sophia Journal issue. This selection obeys to a competitive double blind peer review process for the papers, which are theoretical articles, nevertheless it is not limited to these traditional academic papers, but also includes practice research in the form of Visual Essays.
This means that accepted submissions for the conference engage with the issues above in the form of theoretical papers, visual essays and invited speakers, thus besides theoretical papers that are blind peer reviewed, we also have the participation of selected practice research in the form of Visual Essays and invited keynote speakers or artists work.