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for Papers: <i>Mediating Performance:
Technologies, Communities, Spaces</i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Annual
Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, 23–25 March
2022, online</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Keynote Speakers:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof Daphne Lei, University of
California, Irvine</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof Steve Dixon, LASALLE College of
the Arts, Singapore</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Prof Stephanie Schroedter, University of Music and Performing Arts,
Vienna</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are delighted to announce the eighth
Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta, which
will take place online on 23, 24 & 25 March 2022, and to open the call for papers!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The conference considers performance
through its mediation, particularly in reference to the technologies,
communities, and spaces imbricated in contemporary and historical performance practices.
Mediation is here conceived in its broadest sense, encompassing both the
physical and digital media of technological (re)production and the mediation
between performer and audience, event and community, participation and
spectatorship. This conference brings together scholars and practitioners in
dance, theatre, and music, undertaking work on the conception, transmission, reception,
theorisation, and study of performance. Mediation thus occurs at the
interstices of disciplinary practices, necessitating an approach that combines
methodologies from the arts, sciences, and humanities.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We invite proposals that engage with
any aspect of the conference theme, especially those using inter-and
multidisciplinary approaches. Conventional presentations are typically 15–20
minutes plus Q&A, but we also encourage proposals that use any alternative presentation
format, such as lecture-recital, collaborative paper, themed session,
performance, intervention, etc. Please note that, in view of health and environmental
concerns, and to increase accessibility, the conference will take place online.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Potential topics include, but are not
limited to:</p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>the dissemination of performance and its role
in culture and society;</p>
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</span></span><span style="color:black">interaction between
performance and community;</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>the impact of digital technologies in
performance practice;</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 14.2pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span>the intersection of race, gender, and class in
questions of access and inclusion in performance;</p>
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</span></span>historical or ethnographical examples of
mediated performances;</p>
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</span></span>physical media and material agency;</p>
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</span></span>performance and wellbeing, or performance as
therapy;</p>
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</span></span>public and private social spaces of
performance;</p>
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</span></span>the ‘liveness’ of performance and its cultural
value;</p>
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</span></span>politics and poetics of traditional and
non-traditional venues of performance, including performance art, opera,
experimental theatre, and other forms.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Proposals should include an abstract
of c. 300 words, name(s), institutional affiliation (if any), email
address(es), brief biography (additional 125 words maximum), and details of presentation
format (including duration), and should be submitted by <b>Friday, 17 December 2021</b> to the conference convenors at the
following email addresses: Jeremy
Coleman (<a href="mailto:jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt</a>) and Max
Erwin (<a href="mailto:max.erwin@um.edu.mt" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">max.erwin@um.edu.mt</a>). Acceptance
will be confirmed in January 2022. If you have any questions about the
conference or your proposal, please contact either of the convenors.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Conference Convenors:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dr Jeremy
Coleman</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lecturer, Department of Music Studies,
School of Performing Arts, University of Malta</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt">jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="DE">Dr Max Erwin</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Lecturer, Department of Music Studies,
School of Performing Arts, University of Malta</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:max.erwin@um.edu.mt">max.erwin@um.edu.mt</a></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina" target="_blank">Dr Stefan Aquilina</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Director, <a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts" target="_blank">School of Performing Arts</a></font></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2">Senior Lecturer, <a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre" target="_blank">Department of Theatre Studies</a></font></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">University of Malta</font></div></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></div></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>Co-Director, <a href="https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Stanislavsky Research Centre</a></div><div>Director, <a href="http://www.ctatt.org/" target="_blank">CTATT Research Project</a></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Book Publications: </font></font></div><div><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/amateur-and-proletarian-theatre-in-post-revolutionary-russia-9781350170971/" target="_blank">Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary Sources</a></span></i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> (2021; Bloomsbury)</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/" target="_blank">Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes</a> </i>(2020; Bloomsbury)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore" target="_blank">Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives </a></i>(2018; Malta University Press)</font></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/" target="_blank">Stanislavsky in the World: The System and its Transformations across Continents</a> </i>(2017; Bloomsbury)</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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