Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University and the Central Academy of Drama, University of Beijing: Towards a New Collaboration Protocol Promoting Artistic Exchange and Intercultural Dialogue

At the international conference Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science (TTT2025), held on 9–13 September 2025 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Department of Audio and Visual Arts marked the beginning of a new chapter in international cooperation.

Professor Dalila Honorato met with representatives of the Central Academy of Drama, University of Beijing, Associate Professor Mrs. Monroe and member of administrative staff Mrs. Yanshuang, in a first in-person encounter that paved the way for drafting a joint collaboration protocol.

AVARTS’s committee also includes Professor Apostolos Loufopoulos, Dr. Emmanouil Rovithis, and Dr. Marily Argyrokastriti, and is supported by the Rector of the Ionian University, Professor Andreas Floros, and the Head of the International Relations Office, Mrs. Dimitra Kokkali.

The collaboration protocol under preparation aims to foster initiatives of common interest with a focus on mutual artistic understanding, interdisciplinarity, and multiculturalism.

This initiative highlights AVARTS’s commitment to strengthening its international profile and to opening new pathways of cooperation that bring together the European and Asian academic and artistic communities.

In the photo (from left to right): Mr. Uros Veber, Director of the NGO Projekt Atol (Slovenia); Mr. Ioannis Melanitis, Vice-Rector of the Athens School of Fine Arts; Mrs. Marta de Menezes, Director of the NGO Cultivamos Cultura (Portugal); Mrs. Dalila Honorato, Professor at the Department of Audio and Visual Arts, Ionian University; Mrs. Yanshuang and Mrs. Monroe from the Central Academy of Drama, University of Beijing; and Mrs. Jiabao Li, Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (USA).