theatre and performance studies

Call for SubmissionsMusicTheatreDance: The Journal of the Music Theatre Dance AssociationIssue 1 (2027) “Imagine it”Editors: Stephanie Lim, Kathryn Edney, Hye Won Kim, Vicki Hoskins, Shiraz Biggie, and Adrienne Oehlers Imagine it: Scholarship as performance. Performance as practice. Practice as inquiry. Inquiry as pedagogy. Join us in imagining what MusicTheatreDance Journal can be. We call upon you, the scholars, educators, and practitioners in and across the performing arts, to help us envision how to break down the barriers in traditional scholarship and the communities in which we co-exist.

By the time he passed away at the age of 90, British filmmaker Peter Watkins had cemented his legacy as one of the preeminent media scholars of the late-20th and early 21st centuries. Over the course of eight decades, Watkins’ oeuvre represented unrelenting interventions in an industry that was repeatedly acquiescing to the profit motive. Among the themes explored in the director’s work are war (The War Game) and revolution (La Commune). Within these films, his most common approach was the pseudo-documentary. This format helped Watkins combat what he viewed as the passivity that was the dominant mode of discourse in media.

EchoForum 2026 Conference: Disability as Radical Interdisciplinary Practice EchoForum: Conceptual Framework

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu and the members of the EchoCamp project are delighted to extend an invitation to the upcoming conference on disability arts, EchoForum 2026: Disability as Radical Interdisciplinary Practice, taking place between November 26-27, 2026, in Sibiu, Romania.

James Baldwin Review 

American Literature Association 2027

Calls for Papers

CFP 1: 

Baldwin’s Late Style

In “Thoughts on Late Style,” Edward Said describes how an artist’s late works 

cannot be reconciled or resolved, since their irresolution and fragmentariness are constitutive, neither ornamental nor symbolic of something else. The late works are about ‘lost totality’, and it is in this sense that they are catastrophic. 

Shakespeare Here, Shakespeare Now 27-30 May 2027, Cape Town, South Africa

This conference, held as part of the thirteenth triennial congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA), invites delegates to reflect on and utilise the axes of space and time in making new contributions to the field of Shakespeare Studies.

Keynote Speaker: Farah Karim-Cooper (Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC)

While the purpose-built playhouses of early modern London – such as the Globe, Rose, and Blackfriars – dominate histories of early modern performance, theatrical activity frequently spilled out into non-dedicated, non-purpose-built sites. Command performances often took place at the royal court or on country estates, while the evidence for London playing companies on tour compiled by projects such as Records of Early English Drama (REED) has unveiled a rich regional theatre history in guildhalls, chapels, inn yards, open streets, and even the deck of an East India Company ship. Performance in early modern England was profoundly adaptable.

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2026

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share research pertaining to Black performance across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including all musical genres, theatrical performance and performance art, performance elements in visual art, and connections between different Black expressive forms.  In all these contexts we are interested in investigating where aesthetic technique and embodiment merge across Black diasporic expressivity.

Call for Papers

The Winter's Tale: From Page to Stage

IASEMS Tempera Seminar 2027

University of Padova, Department of Language and Literary Studies

7-9 June 2027