ATDS CALL FOR PROPOSALS:American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) Sessions at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2024 Conference: Revisioning the StoryAtlanta, Georgia, August 1–4, 2024“Show me what democracy looks like”ATHE’s 2024 call asks us to revise or re-vision in an effort to transform both theatre practice and theatre education. Revising and re-visioning […]
With Volume 1 (both Issues 1 and 2) already scheduled to be published by Penn State University Press starting in 2024, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is a generalist journal in theatre studies (broadly defined), consisting of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles.The journal operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific […]
Song, Stage and Screen 2024Call for ParticipationRenewing/Rethinking/RevivingJune 26-29, 2024Hosted by The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsNEW AND IMPROVED DEADLINE: 5 January, 2024Song, Stage and Screen is back!This call for participation heralds Song, Stage and Screen’s first return to an in-person gathering since 2019. Song, Stage and Screen XVII will convene at the […]
ECUMENICA: PERFORMANCE AND RELIGIONScholars and artists are invited to submit essays, artist statements, interviews, book reviews, and performance reviews to Ecumenica, a peer-reviewed journal published by Penn State University Press. As a performance studies journal, we welcome scholarship on all sorts of theatrical performance and performance art and also on the activity of religion, including […]
Performance Philosophy 2024: “After Tragedy” May 16-20th Austin, Texas For its May 2024 biennial conference, Performance Philosophy invites proposals for workshops, papers, and keygroup presentations on the theme “After Tragedy.” As we continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, rising white nationalist movements, climate disasters, and authoritarian violence around the world, we ask: what forms of performance and thinking might […]
Call for Papers: “Queer and Trans Readings of the Theatrical Past”A Special Section of Theatre History StudiesVolume 45 (2025)Co-Editors: Les Gray (they/them) and Kristin Leahey (she/her) Elizabeth Freeman writes in Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) of the epistemology of nonbinary and transgender people in history: “Trans studies has a history problem, albeit one that scholars from all branches […]
the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is currently accepting submissions for Artistic Scholarship as Practice. This includes works of plays, multimedia, digital performance installations, and digital artistic works in the field and/or the discipline of Black theatre and performance. Our specific focus for this issue is Environmentalism. We are also accepting submissions for reflections in Notes from the […]
The Tennessee Williams Scholars ConferenceFriday, March 22, 2024The Historic New Orleans Collectionand Williams Research CenterNew Orleans, LAFounded in 1995, the Tennessee Williams Scholars Conference is an annual one-day meeting held in the historic French Quarter as part of the Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. The week-long festival features writing workshops, theater events, literary […]
The editors of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre are now accepting submissions for essays on any topics relating to theatre, drama, and popular entertainments of the Americas for consideration. Please submit completed manuscripts to jadtjournal@gmail.com by December 15, 2023 for consideration in the Fall 2024 issue. Our aim is to promote research on […]
THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas Call for Articles 2024 IssueDeadline: January 15, 2024 Theatre Annual is the oldest theatre periodical continuously published in the United States. It is dedicated to examining theatre and performance of the Americas. We construe “America” broadly to include North, Central, and South America and the […]
Performing Arts ResourcesInstruction (2025 issue)This issue of Performing Arts Resources will consider approaches to performing arts library instruction in higher education. Performing arts curricula are often composed of both history/theory courses and practice-based courses. Research libraries often struggle to meet the needs of students in history/theory classes who require access to materials like scripts, recordings of performances, […]
We are pleased to invite submissions that interrogate aesthetics, performativity, and matters of Environmentalism in Black and African Diasporic theatre history, contemporary performance and production, dramatic literature, digital art, artistic leadership, pedagogy and praxis, and nature-based religious and spiritual performativity. We invite authors to investigate, meditate and reflect on, and respond to:Land acknowledgments.Environmental sustainability conversations […]
Elizabeth Freeman writes in Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (2010) of the epistemology of nonbinary and transgender people in history: “Trans studies has a history problem, albeit one that scholars from all branches of the field are busy working to address.” She contends that scholars need to argue that trans lives and scholarship existed […]
In the US, calls for prison abolition have gained momentum in recent years and have reinforced the distinction between reform (developing less violent methods of policing, for example) and abolition (creating a world where policing is not necessary). Abolition as an alternative to reform animates many justice movements that seek to eradicate structural inequality. Abolitionist […]
Special Performance edition of Interdisciplinary Humanities, the journal of Humanities Education and Research Association (https://www.utep.edu/liberalarts/hera/).“Performance in the Humanities”Deadline: October 31, 2023Word limit: 6000This special edition will investigate how performance shapes our experience of the humanities. In the four decades since NYU offered the first degree in “Performance Studies,” the advent of the internet and social […]
Theatre Topics Special Issue: Comedy & Embodiment Call for Papers This special issue of Theatre Topics calls for cutting edge research that places comedy squarely in a theatre and performance studies context. As comedy scholars, we have noticed a hunger to research and further define the interdisciplinary, oft-muddy field of comedy studies. Popular forms of comedy (such […]