Call for events and publications

“Ethical Dramaturgies”: a special issue of Performing Ethos: An International Journal of Ethics in Theatre & Performance Jeanmarie Higgins, the Pennsylvania State University The history of the relationship between theatre and ethics laid out by Nicholas Ridout in the eponymous 2009 book from Palgrave’s Theatre & Series describes the relationship of ethics to theatre in […]

The Society for Pirandello Studies Annual Conference. Pirandello and revolutions in contemporary science, philosophy, epistemology and aesthetics Saturday 19 October 2019 Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Senate House The annual one-day conference of the Society for Pirandello Studies aims to embrace a wide variety of methods and […]

Reimagining Theatre Pedagogy in the Era of Climate Crisis, or, Greta Thunberg Goes to Theatre School What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take […]

I’m very pleased to share with you the Call For Papers and Presentation Proposals for the 9th International Digital Storytelling Conference that will be hosted at Loughborough University, UK, from Monday the 30th of March to Wednesday the 1st of April 2020. Story Work for a Just FutureExploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International […]

Intersections Conference 2020 The precarious nature of the new university: the prospects, problems and aspirations of early career theatre and performance researchers Deadline for applications: 31st October 2019 The new generation of researchers is forming in an environment of increased precarity and instability, contained within academic institutions, and imploding outside of them. The last ten […]

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *(Deadline 31st July 2019)* *Terror on Tour 2019:* *Nothing to Declare* *Sept. 6, 2019 – Arts Technology Research Lab (ATRL), Trinity CollegeDublin* TERROR ON TOUR is an international and interdisciplinary network ofscholars, artists and activists whose research and work engages with themultiple manifestations of terror in our epoch: from climate change to […]