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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Call for Abstracts for Issue 21 (Spring 2027)Embodiment
Guest Editors: Alexandra Stuhlmann and Siyu Li
Multiple hands: Shakespeare and Collaborative Creation
18-20th March 2027, Paris (France) - Annual Conference of the Société Française Shakespeare
Call for - Literary Musings Online - 2584-1459 - July 2026
Academic Journal
Research Academy
Aims and Scope of the Journal
ephemer – Journal for Performance and Theater Research
3rd Call for Co-Editors
On Agitation
II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MYTH AND DRAMA:
CRISES, BORDERS, OTHERNESS
DEADLINE: April 5, 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
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.
Conference dates: December 10-11, 2026
Location: University of Verona, Verona (Italy) – hybrid
Organiser: Prof. Emanuel Stelzer (emanuel.stelzer@univr.it)
About Time: Temporality in Theatre and Drama
Special Section of Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies 12.2 (Dec 2026)
(https://skenejournal.skeneproject.it/index.php/JTDS)
Edited by Alessandro Grilli – Università di Pisa – alessandro.grilli@unipi.it
Call for Papers: Journal of Writing in Creative Practices
Special Issue: 'Methods & Approaches of Writing for the Performance Studies Stage'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-writing-in-creative-practice#call-for-papers
How do playwrights imagine and stage ways of being, hoping, and memorializing against censorship and erasure? We invite papers that explore alternative historiographies in post-war Sri Lankan theater and performance. Please share a 300-word abstract and bio.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A Cultural History of the Avant-garde in East Asia
Part of: Cultural Histories of the Avant-Garde: A Companion Series (www.brill.com/CHAG)
The companion series is part of an ongoing, large-scale project launched by De Gruyter Brill (a merger of two international publishing houses) that uncovers the cultural history of the avant-garde in major regions of the world. The series on East Asia consists of four volumes, each dealing with specific decades and topics as follows:
On December 9, 2014, the release of Ezell Ford’s autopsy report inspired an 18-day protest held in
record-breaking cold in front of LAPD headquarters. The evidence confirming that Ford had been shot by
police at close range inspired a group of dance activists, led by Black Lives Matter founding member Dr.
Shamell Bell, not only to occupy space but also to move within it. The protest represented what she coined
“street dance activism” based on “radical joy” and “collecting freedom dreaming.”
Recent archival initiatives have made accessible significant bodies of media work by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement, including projects in film, radio, and television. These rediscoveries invite renewed attention to the movement’s engagement with broadcast and screen media and challenge the longstanding emphasis on poetry, theater, and print culture in scholarship on the period.
This panel seeks papers that explore the early modern relationship between loss and melancholy for the Sixteenth Century Society Conference to be held in Chicago, 29-31 October 2026. In his Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Robert Burton writes, “Now go and brag of thy present happiness… thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected… by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent.” Bereavement permeates the early modern landscape, appearing in paintings, prints, poems, plays, ego documents, and legal testimony, among many other sources. It may involve the loss of love, friends, honor, possessions, homeland, freedom, political stability, or even religious conviction.
We invite submissions for the upcoming issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in SEPTEMBER. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography, ERIH Plus, DOAJ, EBSCO and Gale Cengage.
* Deadline is the end of JULY but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.
* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.
Dear colleagues,
We invite proposals for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention (MLA 2027) in Los Angeles, to be held January 7–10, 2027, titled “Romanian, Hungarian and Other Emancipatory Narratives.”
Dedalus: Portuguese Journal of Comparative Literature
Call for Papers
Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
Dedalus, Vol. 30 (2026)
We invite original scholarly contributions for an edited comprehensive volume dedicated to
the histories, aesthetics, industries, and cultural politics of cinema in Bhutan. As Bhutanese
filmmaking gains increasing regional and global visibility—through both popular and festival
circuits—this volume seeks to offer the first sustained, interdisciplinary mapping of its
cinematic landscape.
The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.