The Performance in Historical Paradigms Working Group provides a dynamic forum for the discussion of performance studies methodologies for those who engage with multiple (inter)disciplinary paradigms and use performance theory to think historically, or think historically about performance.

This year, we will host a series of events to explore and discuss the praxis of our field, including a roundtable, a panel, a performance, and a meeting session. We invite conference attendees to join us for a session where we engage with the themes of the working group in relation to our research, teaching, and practice. We plan to organise the session around participants’ interests and envisage it as an opportunity to network, share ideas and reflect on why and how we work with performance and history.

We invite conference attendees to join us for a session where we engage with the themes of the working group in relation to our research, teaching and practice. We plan to organise the session around participants’ interests and envisage it as an opportunity to network, share ideas and reflect on why and how we work with performance and history.

Please send us no more than 250 words in response to these questions:

1. What is your research/practice and how does it relate to the focus of the working group?
2. What sources do you use in your research/practice/pedagogy?
3. A question or issue you’ve encountered that you would want to share with the group for reflection or inspiration?

Please send us your response by May 1st, 2024, to the following emails:
Aniko Szucs (Aniko.Szucs@qc.cuny.edu) and Ioana Szeman (i.szeman@uea.ac.uk), co-convenors of the working group

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