theatre and performance studies

En avant: Taking Stock of Modernism and its Antecedents

updated: 
Friday, April 17, 2026 - 1:52pm
American Society for Theater Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 4, 2026

1956 was a year of theatrical milestones. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night was published posthumously while The Diary of Anne Frank won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. And, of course, the American Society for Theatre Research was founded. O’Neill’s meditation on troubled family dynamics and addiction would go on to win the Pulitzer in 1957. The previous year, the Pulitzer went to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Tennessee Williams play about alcoholism and (potentially) sublimated queer desire. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry became the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway when A Raisin in the Sun premiered.

Wooden O Symposium (extended deadline)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 - 3:48pm
Southern Utah University-Utah Shakespeare Festival
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

August 3-5, 2026

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

 

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. The Wooden O Symposium limits participation to 25 presenters to ensure robust conversation and feedback as we strive to create a community of scholars engaged with the work of Shakespeare.

Comic Leadership at PAMLA 2026

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:08pm
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

 

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2026 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, held November 12-15, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency in Seattle, Washington. PAMLA ‘s 2026 theme is  “Our Ruling Classes: Culture, Power, Conflict.” Following this, AHSA is accepting a range of papers on “Comic Leadership.” We invite submissions that consider the role of comedy in politics. Often, comedy is used to “takedown” and “critique” those in power through satire and parody, but what can comedy offer for enacting new political paths forward?

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:07pm
Dr. Roshni Subba (Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Calcutta) & Injam Ahmed Molla (Independent Researcher, UGC NET Qualified)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 27, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposed Edited Volume 

Beyond the Mainstream: Dalit Narratives and Narratives of Social Exclusion from Eastern and North-Eastern India

Editors

Dr. Roshni Subba

Assistant Professor, Department of English

University of Calcutta

Injam Ahmed Molla

Independent Researcher(UGC NET Qualified)

 

About the Volume

PAMLA 2026 - Shakespeare and the Early Moderns (Panel/Standing Session)

updated: 
Monday, April 13, 2026 - 4:03pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

The "Shakespeare and the Early Moderns" session at PAMLA 2026 seeks proposals focusing on: Shakespeare and the early moderns; Shakespeare and/or his peers (Massinger, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Wroth, Middleton, etc.); the influence of Shakespeare and the early moderns on later works of literature. Topics of particular interest include work on Shakespeare and power and authority; labor and hierarchy, national identity, Shakespeare and race, feminism, gender and sexuality, disability studies, post-colonial studies, early modern economies; adaptations, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare, his contemporaries, and related topics.

Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities

updated: 
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 - 4:42am
Nordic Summer University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

 

                                                                 Call for Abstracts (Circle 3)  

                                        Literature and the Arts as Sites of Resistance and Solidarities
                                                 24 July -31 July 2026, Saulkrasti, Latvia

Focus

Literature and the Arts as tools for intersubjective transformation, resistance, and the forging of solidarities.

Framing Questions

Extended deadline for Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation International Conference

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:16pm
Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 1, 2026

Extended deadline for Re-thinking Trauma: Cinema, Performance, and Mediation International Conference

Ekphrasis Center for Transdisciplinary, Liberal Arts and Creative Technologies Research Department of Theatre and Film, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania September 2–4, 2026

DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 1st, 2026

Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:04pm
Krislyn Zhorne / Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 25, 2026

 

MMLA 2026 Convention Theme: "After the Archive"  (https://mmla.memberclicks.net/call-for-papers)Meeting Dates: 12-14 November 2026Meeting Location: voco Chicago Downtown (350 W Wolf Point Plaza)

Presentation Length: 15 Minutes (7-8 Double-Spaced Pages)
Submission Materials: 250-Word Abstract and CV
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2026

Critical Ballet Studies

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 3:04pm
Call for proposals: no-stage Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 2, 2026

Call for proposals: no-stage PressCritical Ballet Studies 

no-stage press invites submissions for its inaugural publication, dedicated to critical ballet studies. We seek academic articles, critical essays, and interviews that interrogate the histories, aesthetics, and power structures embedded in ballet and ballet-adjacent forms.

CITIES IN LITERATURE / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE / ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 2:59pm
Acta Iassyensia Comparationis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Invitation to Publish 

in ACTA IASSYENSIA COMPARATIONIS no. 37 (2026)

Thematic issue:CITIES IN LITERATURE  / LA VILLE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE/ ORAŞUL ÎN LITERATURĂ

The deadline for the submission of articles and book reviews (in Romanian, English, French, German, Spanish or Italian) is September 01, 2026.

The final decision of the AIC Editorial Board will be passed on before December 15, 2026.

Corrections (if required) and comments by the authors expected between December 15, 2026 and January 15, 2027.

Film Noir: Disrupting Power from the Sidelines

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 1:47pm
Julie Grossman/PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 25, 2026

This call seeks proposals for 18-minute talks to be presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) in Seattle, Nov. 12-15, 2026.

Multiple hands: Shakespeare and Collaborative Creation 18-20th March 2027, Paris (France)

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 1:47pm
Société Française Shakespeare
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the players come with their own requests (“Write me a prologue”, Botttom asks), in a hilarious example of group-working. In Hamlet, as the Prince of Denmark gets ready to take action, one of his first decisions is to appoint himself as co-writer of The Murder of Gonzago: “You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines which I would set down and insert in’t, could you not?” (2.2.5.528-30). Both examples show the nuts and bolts of early modern stage practice, in which co-writing was commonplace. 

CFP Ecofeminist Drama

updated: 
Monday, April 6, 2026 - 4:06am
Isil Sahin Gulter / Firat University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Call for Papers Ecofeminist Drama: Theatre, Performance, and Ecological Futures

Edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Işıl Şahin Gülter
Under review with the University of Illinois Press

Textual Bodies: Incarnation, Corporeality, and Affective Materialities through Literature 6th Meeting of Young Researchers of the SELGyC

updated: 
Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - 4:38am
Spanish Comparative Literature Society (SELGYC)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Textual Bodies: Incarnation, Corporeality, and Affective Materialities through Literature
6th Meeting of Young Researchers of the SELGyC

 

Faculty of Philology — Complutense University of Madrid
September 16–17, 2026

 

«Write yourself: your body must be heard»
Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa

«The text you write must prove to me that it desires me»
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026- Media & Sustainability

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:09pm
MeCCSA PGN & Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 15, 2026

Call for Papers

MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2026

Media and Sustainability

University of Reading,

Minghella Studios, Whiteknights Campus

Reading RG6 6BT

9th September 2026

Organising committee: Babsie Keulemans, Emir Anday and Elizabeth Heaney

Any questions about the conference or the submission process can be directed to:

Babsie Keulemans – e.l.keulemans@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

Graduate Essay Contest in Theory and Criticism

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:06pm
ATHE
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Call for Papers

ATHE Theory & Criticism Graduate Student Essay Contest 

 

The ATHE Theory & Criticism Focus Group seeks papers for its annual Graduate Student Essay Contest. The contest presents an exciting opportunity for an emergent theatre and performance studies scholar. It introduces the winning writer to the ATHE conference and provides them with a venue in which to showcase their work. 

 

The contest prizes are intended to support the development of the student’s academic work, ease financial challenges related to conference attendance, and connect the student with appropriate scholarly resources for the paper’s development and impact. 

 

CfA: On_Culture #21 "Embodiment" (Spring 2027)

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:01pm
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2026

Call for Abstracts for Issue 21 (Spring 2027)Embodiment

Guest Editors: Alexandra Stuhlmann and Siyu Li

Literary Musings - Regular Issue July 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:43pm
Literary Musings
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2026

Academic Journal

Research Academy

PJWS Volume – 6, Issue 1, May 2026

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:41pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Aims and Scope of the Journal

Call for Co-Editors: "On Agitation" - ephemer

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 2:40pm
University of Arts Linz / Austria
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

ephemer – Journal for Performance and Theater Research

3rd Call for Co-Editors

On Agitation
 

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Myth and Drama: Crises, Borders, Otherness

updated: 
Monday, March 30, 2026 - 1:34pm
Faculty of Philology "Blaže Koneski" in Skopje, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje; Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje and Institute for Macedonian Literature in Skopje
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 30, 2026

 

                      

 

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:

CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS

 

 

 

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:51pm
Manchester Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 24, 2026

 

Between Then and Now: Performing Archives

The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, 23-24 June 2026

Convened by the Performance Research Group, Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University

  

Call for contributions

 

CFP-Dance & Movement Analysis at American Folklore Society Conference in Oct 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 4:48pm
Dance & Movement Analysis Section - American Folklore Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 6, 2026

The Dance and Movement Analysis Section of the American Folklore Society is looking for papers, panels, workshops, and lec/dems for the 138th AFS Annual Meeting, to be held at the Renaissance Asheville Downtown Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina from October 27–31, 2026. Deadline is April 6, 2026 for emailing us with ideas and questions, at dance.section@afsnet.org.

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