PSi will be offering a fuller picture of 2021 in our next update to registered members. For now and in this forum, I am sharing a placeholder peek into what we’re working on during these unprecedented times. The 2021 Rijeka conference team and stream curators are working towards a visionary blended conference event that will be scaled and...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Performance as Research Working Group International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference 'Theatre Ecologies: Environment, Sustainability & Politics' Virtual Conference (hosted in Galway) / 12-16 July 2021 The International Federation for Theatre Research has announced that its 2021 conference—deferred one year...
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THEATRE JOURNAL CO-EDITOR Nominations and applications are invited for the position of Co-Editor of Theatre Journal. This is a four-year appointment: The Co-Editor will serve a two-year term beginning August 2021, followed by a two-year term as Editor from August 2023 to August 2025, with final editing...
Correction: An earlier version of this post transposed the date of the Special Issue. The correct date is September 2021. We apologise for the error. From the formal inception of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with individuals like computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing, AI technologies have often been measured first in their ability to...
Committed to collaborative and activist scholarship, Global Performance Studies is proud to announce that we are expanding our editorial team to include two new co-editors: Dr. Nesreen Hussein and Dr. Felipe Cervera. GPS will now be co-edited between them, joining founding editor Dr. Kevin Brown. Dr. Nesreen N. Hussein (BFA, MRes, PGCHE, AFHEA,...
In 2013, the Black Lives Matter movement was born out of despair after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who shot and murdered Trayvon Martin. In the months leading up to the killing of George Floyd, the of murder of black people by police and white vigilantes has continued unabated. FBI data shows that white officers are three times...
The TDR Consortium announce an extension of the deadline for submissions to a special issue of TDR, Peripeteia. As it turned out, last fall, when we sent out the call for papers for the TDR special issue on “Peripeteia,” we were on the cusp of a global pandemic. Little did we know that, by the time of our initial deadline (June 1), the topic of...
The PSi Board has extended the call for a new Treasurer for the organisation until August 14th, 2020. Performance Studies international (PSi) is a professional association founded to promote communication and exchange among artists, thinkers, activists and academics working in the field of performance. PSi represents this field and stimulates its...
REMINDER: PROPOSALS DUE AUGUST 15 CALL FOR PAPERS Collaborative Research in Theatre and Performance Studies Joint Issue of Global Performance Studies and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism To be published Fall 2021 (GPS issue 4.2 & JDTC issue 36.1) Issue Editors Kevin Brown, University of...