<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000">Dear all</font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt">Very happy to announce the following call for proposals for the annual conference of the School of Performing Arts of the University of Malta. All details below.</span><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt">Best</span><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt">Stefan Aquilina</span><br></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000">School Director</font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><a class="gmail_plusreply" id="m_-6584551943513519515plusReplyChip-0" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">++++++</a><br></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><font color="#000000"><a class="gmail_plusreply" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></a></font></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">9th Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of Malta</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">22, 23 & 24 March 2023</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="color:black">Valletta Campus, Malta</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Call for Proposals</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Following our successful virtual conference in 2022, the School of Performing Arts (SPA), University of Malta, invites proposal submissions to our 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on 22–24 March 2023. Our first in-person and hybrid conference since 2020, this three-day international conference brings together investigations and explorations under the title of 'Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance'. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought divergent ideas of the body, bodily praxes and body politics to the very fore of social and political life across the planet. In this light, the 2023 SPA Conference highlights embodied epistemology and praxis in the performing arts (dance, theatre, music) as well as the performance of politics and the political dimensions of performance in the past, present and future. Situated at the nexus of theory and bodily practice, the performing arts offer unique modes and methods for questioning, expanding and problematizing notions of both the body and the constitution and valuation of knowledge. At a time of unprecedented ecological and geo-political crisis, questions of how diverse bodies ‘know’ and how bodily knowledges are transmitted, occluded and/or made meaningful are not only pressing areas of interdisciplinary research but also key considerations for shifting conceptions of our world.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br><br></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">We invite proposals for papers and presentations in any format that address any aspect of the conference theme broadly conceived. *Please indicate whether your proposed presentation will be in-person or remote.* Possible formats of presentation include:</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Individual paper (15–20 minutes)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Practice-based presentation (15–20 minutes)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Collaborative paper (up to 30 minutes)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Pre-organised panel (3–4 participants, up to 90 minutes total)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Topics for presentation include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Historical case studies</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;fon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:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Body politics across geo-political power differentials</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Militaristic mobilisation of bodies</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 47.25pt;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:black">·<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><span style="color:black">Challenges and transformations to body knowledges, the individual and collective ‘body’ and the body politic, through COVID-19 restrictions and any other historical moment</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposals should contain the following information in a single electronic document (Word file or PDF): First name and Surname; Institutional affiliation (if any); Contact email address; </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Presentation online or in-person (indicate one of two options); Title of presentation; </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:black">Brief description of presentation format; Abstract (300 words maximum); Brief biography (125 words maximum).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to <</span><a href="mailto:jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">> no later than Monday 19th December 2022 (23:59 GMT+1). Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be communicated in January 2023.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Co-conveners:</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Dr Mika Lillit Lior (</span><a href="mailto:mika.lior@um.edu.mt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">mika.lior@um.edu.mt</span></a><span style="color:black">)</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="color:black">Dr Jeremy Coleman (</span><a href="mailto:jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">jeremy.coleman@um.edu.mt</span></a><span style="color:black">)</span></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 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><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"><span style="font-size:small">University of Malta</span><br></div></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"></font></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>Office: 2340 2989</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><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i>Stanislavsky and Pedagogy (</i>forthcoming; 2023) </font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">│</span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Vsevolod-Meyerhold/Pitches-Aquilina/p/book/9780367627843" style="font-style:italic" target="_blank">The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold</a><i> </i></font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b>│</b></span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </i><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"> </font></font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">│</span><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></font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">│</span><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></font><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">│</span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><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></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Other Publications:</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">'<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19443927.2021.1968942" target="_blank">Physical training online: transitioning towards digital pedagogies</a>', <i>Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, </i>5 January 2022</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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