Call for events and publications

Please find below two calls for papers for our upcoming special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review: ‘What’s Queer about Queer Performance Now?’ (edited by Alyson Campbell, Stephen Farrier & Manola Gayatri Kumarswamy) and ‘Hear Tell: Describing, Reporting, Narrating’ (edited by Georgina Guy & Johanna Linsley). All queries and abstracts should be sent directly to the […]

Call for Papers – deadline Friday 13 March 2020 ‘Don’t mention the C Word’ – re-assessing the meaning and impact of censorship in opera University of Leeds, Thursday 11th June 2020 – Rescheduled from previous advertised date. Hosted by School of PCI and the School of Music, University of Leeds Supported by the Institute of […]

Special issue of Performance Philosophy Performance Philosophy Edited by Prudence Gibson and Catriona Sandilands In the midst of accelerating interest in the importance, agency, and intelligence of the vegetal world, the editors of this issue of Performance Philosophy aim both to raise awareness of plant life in Performance Studies and to develop conversations between this […]

CFP Inhuman Memory: Race and Ecology across Timescales– 14 May 2020, King’s College London. Keynote Speaker:Dr Kathryn Yusoff In recent years, environmental humanities and critical race studies have benefited from exponential exposure, and are often identified as posing the most pressing questions of our times. Following this momentum, the one-day conference Inhuman Memory: Race and […]

29 – 30 March 2021, Bristol UKImmersive experiences represent one of the highest growth areas within the UK’s cultural industries. Their centrality to the creative economy was recognised in the UK Creative Industries Sector Deal (2018), which estimated that the immersive content market would be worth over £30 billion by 2025 and pledged to invest […]

You are cordially invited to join us at the Shakespeare Association of America’s 2021 conference in Austin, Texas, 31 March – 3 April 2021 Embodying Differences in Global Shakespearean Performance Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University)Elizabeth Pentland (York University)Ema Vyroubalova (Trinity College Dublin)The ethics of embodied difference intersect with global frames for filming and performing […]