theatre and performance studies

Present-day cultural and political shifts are producing seismic impacts upon Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs and curricula across geopolitical contexts. This session explores new currents, approaches and strategies for teaching WGS in the classroom. (In-Person Session)

Deadline: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Send proposals of 200-words with a shot bio to Ryan Calabretta-Sajder (rcalabretta@gmail.com) and Victoria Muñoz (vmunoz@adelphi.edu)

Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise

MLA Sound Forum, 2027 Guaranteed Session

MLA annual conference, Los Angeles, California, January 7-10, 2027. 

Aural Reorientations, or Sound Studies as Listening Otherwise

European Journal of Media, Art & Photography

ejmap.sk | Indexed in WoS Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) | Q1 in art journals category

How might theatre and performance come to confront the global rise of populism, while setting the stage for, and potentially provoking a reconceptualization of, emancipatory ways of being in the world? Please send 250-word abstracts and brief bios to Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay, University of Milan (ertug.altinay@unimi.it) and Sharon Lois Mazer, Auckland University of Technology (sharon.mazer@aut.ac.nz)

Let’s call it “time work”: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians, but by grave diggers and undertakers, documentary filmmakers and memoirists, politicians, war journalists, practitioners of living traditions, speakers of dead languages, as well as by any and all who keep something – a story, a trinket, an heirloom, a song – holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling; It is driven by the weight of mattering, it is attention called by the fact that now – this, ‘our’ now – is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before.

Call for Papers: Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) Conference 2026

The Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) conference will be hosted at the University of Huddersfield, UK,  9–11 September 2026.

The call for proposals is currently open, with a submission deadline of 2 March 2026.

Further details about the conference, along with the full call for proposals and submission form, can be found at the link below:

 In a Conference Far, Far Away…Traversing Forms of the Folkloric  (Graduate Student Conference)

 New York University, Department of Comparative Literature: Friday, May 1, 2026

Call for Book Proposals

VoyGull Press | Emerging Voices Series, Edited Volumes, Handbook Series

VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd UK

Diamond Open Access Publisher in Social Sciences & Humanities

About VoyGull Press

VoyGull Press is the publishing imprint of VoyGull Publishing Centre Ltd, a UK-based academic publisher committed to democratizing scholarly knowledge. As a young and ambitious publisher, we are building a new model for academic publishing that is grounded in equity, accessibility, and intellectual rigour.

This year, we turn our attention to the intricate, invisible, but often tangible webs that bound the early modern world together. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were defined by a profound density of connection - a world of intense social binding, material circulation, and intellectual exchange. From the “knot intrinsicate” of Cleopatra’s demise to the conspiracy of rumours that entraps Othello, early modern drama is obsessed with the architecture of entanglement.

Frank Lloyd Wright began wintering in the Sonoran Desert in the late 1920s, where the region’s extreme climate and tectonic landscape shaped by sun, erosion, and wind profoundly influenced his thinking about architecture. How did Wright respond to the beautiful yet hostile desert environment?

Call for papers

Sensation: The Sounds, Visions, and Words of David Bowie

Academic conference, University of Agder, Norway

29. – 30. September 2026

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the New issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Writing about a series of human-object relationships, Robin Bernstein employs the term “scriptive thing” to articulate how objects become things when they orient, choreograph, or compel human action. In one such case study, she analyzes a photograph of a woman posing with a racist caricature at the Hotel Exposition in New York’s Grand Central Palace, circa 1930. Using this photo, she further clarifies the nature of this particular subject-object relationship, stating that it is “neither an isolated woman and her ‘whys’ nor an isolated caricature and its textual ‘hows,’ but instead through a complex interaction between the two figures,” that the photo constructs race.

In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” its Word of the Year, marking a shift towards skepticism of facts and scientific institutions alongside the rising influence of emotion and opinion in shaping public knowledge. In the decade since, we have witnessed the further erosion of consensus truth as multiple constructions of the “real” proliferate throughout divergent media ecosystems, accelerated by emerging technologies and polarizing political orientations towards race, gender, class, and sexuality.