Call for Papers

Deadline: December 1, 2025. This special issue of Public Art Dialogue invites scholarly contributions (research articles, short essays, and artists’ projects) that examine the enduring visual, spatial, and ideological legacies of colonialism in public spaces across the Pacific world. It seeks to explore how imperial legacies forged transoceanic connections that continue to shape the public sphere through means including but not limited to monuments, architecture, civic rituals, theater, dance, street art, and performative acts. Recent scholarship on the effects of the Spanish Empire in Latin America and Southeast Asia, particularly in engendering political and cultural exchange, provides an important starting…

📣 Call For Proposals Theme Title: “On Performance and Borders” 📍Working Group Name: Theatre, Performance and Philosophy| TaPRA ✍️Deadline for submission 10 March 2025 Date|Location of Annual Conference: 27-29 August 2025, University of Warwick Link: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/theatre/news-and-events/tapraconference2025/conferencetimeline/theatre-performance-and-philosophy 📍Theme Description: On Performance and Borders For TaPRA 2025, the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group invites artists, thinkers, activists, researchers and curators to engage in collaborative praxes of creation focused on notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders, adding to the intricate tapestry of existing reflections and practices on performance and borders. We seek to explore spiritual and philosophical approaches to threshold spaces,…

Over the last five years, there has been considerable emphasis on the nature and purpose of theatre historiography. Two authoritative collections, Claire Cochrane’s and Jo Robinson’s (eds.) The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Theatre Historiography and Tracy C. Davis’ and Peter W. Marx’ (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography, underscore the expansive scope of theatre history’s current concerns, probing what the discipline of theatre history has to ‘[offer] to the world’ today. Due to the sweeping breadth of both volumes, which provide surveys of the academic discipline of theatre history and an extensive range of…

The international conference Contagion: Between Contiguity and Community - Call for Papers. The ongoing COVID-19 crisis, with its obsession with protective gloves and face masks, has put into stark relief that contagion – as Sria Chatterjee has recently argued – shares etymology with contact and is all about touch (Latin: con: together; tangere: to touch). Both about literal touching and about sharing air which penetrates our respiratory tract. The ability or inability to touch and be touched at the time of the pandemic (un)marks the boundaries between human and nonhuman bodies, transforming relations between them. “The distribution of the sensible”…