Performance Studies international (PSi) (www.psi-web.org) is a premier professional association of academics, artists, and activists working in the field of performance, a dynamic field of encounters where scholarly and artistic research are engaged with a wide variety of topics and strongly rooted in the interaction between theory and practice. The research and practice conducted under the umbrella term ‘performance’ is interdisciplinary and not only grounded in one particular methodology or tradition.

Since its foundation in 1997 and its first conference in 1995, PSi has been an avenue for interdisiciplinary exchange, communication, and collaboration in the field of Performance Studies. PSi represents this field and stimulates its development by initiating conferences and other events, by means of awards and bursaries, by facilitating the circulation of information and knowledge, through working groups dedicated to important issues in the field of performance research, by means of an archive and oral history project, and with a network and a lexicon aimed towards the further development of performance research and education in a global context. PSi’s ambition to be international is given in the very name of our organization, while at the same time the small ‘i’ used in the spelling of ‘international’ expresses awareness of the complexity of what it means to be international – that internationalization is not only a matter of the cultural phenomena that are the subject of study, nor of the world-wide expansion of one particular research paradigm, but rather of diversification. Being international involves an understanding of Performance Studies as a multiplicity of approaches that can be traced back to different practices in different sites of research.

PSi individual members are based in six continents: Asia, Africa, North and South America, the United Kingdom and Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. Current Institutional Members are Stanford University’s Department of Theater and Performance Studies (USA), De La Salle University (Philippines), Arizona State University’s Hugh Downs School of Human Communication (USA), Texas A&M University’s School of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts (USA), Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London (UK).

President: Jazmin Llana, De La Salle University

Vice President (and Conference Liaison Officer): Serap Erincin, Arizona State University

The Critical Island Studies (CIS) (https://criticalislandstudies.com) is an academic network dedicated to challenging prevailing modes of knowledge production centered around the Northern Hemisphere. It is a consortium of universities that aims to explore the epistemological and ontological underpinnings of emerging knowledge paradigms, and the theoretical, methodological, and artistic interdisciplinary perspectives in understanding concepts and categories such as “islandic,” “archipelagic,” or “islandscapes,” and other related terms particularly in Southeast Asian and Asia-Pacific literary, cultural, and trans-disciplinary studies.

Consortium members are Ateneo de Manila University (Manila), University of Santo Tomas (Manila), Konkuk University (Seoul), Universitas Sanata Dharma (Yogyakarta), Universitas Kristen Indonesia (Jakarta), Universitas Indonesia (Jakarta), University of the Philippines Diliman (Manila), Kyung Hee University (Seoul), De la Salle University (Manila), National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), Universitas Gajah Mada (Yogyakarta, Universitas Kristen Maranatha (Bandung) and Universitas Udayana (Bali), University of San Carlos (Cebu), and University of Macau (Macau).

The inaugural conference was held in 2019 in the Philippines. The consortium has since met twice every year, for the annual conference and a colloquium: the first is a bigger gathering open to non-consortium participants and the second is a more intimate discussion among the consortium’s core representatives.

Convenors:     Ma. Luisa Torres-Reyes, University of Santo Tomas

Vincenz Serrano, Ateneo de Manila University

Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Kyung Hee University

Universitas Kristen Indonesia (Christian University of Indonesia) is a private university established in 1953 as a Christian faith-based institution of higher learning. First offering programs in language, philosophy, and economics, it has since expanded its faculties to include law, medicine, social and political sciences, and engineering, and is committed to providing undergraduate and postgraduate education supported by international standard facilities and technologies. Its main campus is in Central Jakarta. UKI is a member of the Critical Island Studies Consortium.

Conference Directors:

Ied Veda Sitepu, S.S., M.A., Vice Rector for Student Affairs and Cooperation

Susanne A.H. Sitohang, S.S., M.A., Dean, Fakultas Sastra dan Bahasa

For inquiries, write to: info@psi-web.org