Proposals for Plenaries and Working Sessions
open January 5, 2026

For ASTR's 70th anniversary, the conference committee invites submissions for plenaries, the state of the professions panel, concurrent panels, and working sessions, seeking perspectives that explore—or take stock of—theatre and performance's protean facets: historical and contemporary, methodologies of research, protocols for making and remembering, and all forms of capital, human and otherwise, that constitute creative effort.

We particularly encourage participants to take stock of performance's abilities to radically and subversively represent individuals and groups marginalized from history—creatively countering their silence, marginalization, and exclusion within the socio-political landscape—and to generate cultural allyship.

Read the full call, including new formats for concurrent panels and "State of the Professions."

New to ASTR? Understand our unique conference format, consisting of plenary papers and working session collaborations. Anyone can propose a plenary or work together with colleagues on a working session rationale!