theatre and performance studies

Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.

Call for Submissions 

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies 

The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies. The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium.  

Panels Sponsored by the American Theatre and Drama Society  

The following panels are seeking papers for presentation at the Comparative Drama Conference July 9-11, 2025 at the London Academy for Music & Dramatic Art.  

This collection of essays seeks to explore the many new and cutting-edge directions surrounding the scholarship of Henry V, especially related to global, transnational, and other approaches that connect the play to wider contexts than those in which it has been traditionally read. Henry V is a play that has long been read in terms of internal self-fashioning: both England’s and Henry’s own. What happens to the play as we look outwards from it towards the wider world, both early modern and contemporary, with which it engages? This collection looks to explore how we read Henry V now, both as an artifact of the past and as a living work still available for adaptation, interpretation, and re-use.

La Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo garte Chamorro” (ENSAD), hoy Universidad de Arte Escénico (UNAE), invita a la comunidad académica dedicada a la crítica y estudio de las artes escénicas a presentar sus artículos de investigación (en castellano y en inglés) para su publicación en la revista Liminal. Los artículos de investigación deben cumplir los estándares y requisitos de publicación de la revista: http://revistas.ensad.edu.pe/index.php/liminal/directrices

Si necesita mayor información puede escribirnos al siguiente correo electrónico: revistas@ensad.edu.pe

Call for Book Chapters for an Edited Volume

Perfect Adaptations.

Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)Between Remake, Translation, Adaptation and Tradaptation

Co-Editors: Gianluca Fantoni and Armando Rotondi

Crip and Queer Intimacies

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters)

(Issue 16, 2026)

University of Lodz, Poland

Co-Editors of the issue:

Kateřina Kolářová, PhD (Charles University)
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, PhD (University of Lodz)

Call for Papers: Journal of Music, Technology & Education

Special Issue: ‘DIY Music Making’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-music-technology-and-education#call-for-papers

Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

Symposium Date: April 4, 2025

Call for Papers

Shakespeare in Popular Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

The Latin word, ‘Surdus’–used to translate the Arabic mathematical term, ‘asamm’–had referred to irrational numbers, those resisting, or willfully remaining deaf to, ratiocination and thus calculability. Its contemporary counterparts, the mathematical 'surd;' and the linguistic use of ‘surd’ for unvoiced consonants find a link in the Proto-Indo-European ‘*swer-’ which meant to buzz, whisper, or whistle. With the rise of contemporary calculation and the computational society of control which derives its power from bayesian modeling, the mathematical theory of communication, and algorithmic machine learning, the ability to remain inscrutible and deafening to such Capitalist ratiocination continues to be, and is an evermore, important aspect of resistance.

Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

Deadline for Abstract Submissions has been extended to October 31, 2024

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).

Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious roots of which are enshrined in the epistemology of the word. Originating from the Latin carnem levāre – the removal of the flesh (OED) – the carnival used to be a festive threshold leading into the frugality and modesty of Lent. Yet, such grassroots street performances have thrived beyond this limited cultural, historical and geographical frame.

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.