Call for the Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group – IFTR Conference 2023

Nov 25, 2022
Call for the Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group - IFTR Conference 2023 - Accra, Ghana IFTR’s Performance, Religion, and Spirituality Working Group notes that the broad theme for IFTR’s 2023 conference is myths and myth-making. We think that examinations of performance and religion might be especially important to this conference theme. We are interested, particularly, in work and play that understand myth not as fundamentally fictitious, but as part of reality, and perhaps even constitutive of reality. The analysis of the relation between myths and perception is indeed fundamental to understanding how stories shape and channel realities. For example,…
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Performance Philosophy Problems 2021 – Call for Participation

Performance Philosophy Problems 2021 – Call for Participation

Sep 04, 2020
We are excited to open the Call for Participation for the fifth biennial conference on performance philosophy, entitled Performance Philosophy Problems 2021- How does Performance Philosophy Collaborate? The conference will take place from June 9 - 12, 2021 in Helsinki, Finland, and is hosted by the University of the Arts Helsinki. We welcome proposals from scholars and artists, encourage applications from our network members and would like to introduce the new concept of key groups in addition to individual proposals to explore the question of collaboration. The conference strives towards inclusion and therefore is making special PP bursaries available for…
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