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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">IFTR Annual Conference 2025</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Performing Carnival! </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Cologne; Jun 9-13 2025</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Call for Papers</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Carnival, respectively the carnivalesque, is a phenomenon that can be found in almost every culture around the globe and in almost all periods in history. But it is one of those mercurial
phenomena which, rather than being frozen in time like a petrified tradition, is constantly changing, adapting and reinventing itself. Carnival is therefore both deeply rooted in history and always new. It can be highly political and revolutionary at times,
self-assuring at others, or merely hedonistic escapism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Ekstasis</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"> | <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Subversion</span></strong> | <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Metamorphosis</span></strong>.
These are three keywords that we have chosen to offer a mapping of the colorful, chaotic and diverse world of <em><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Performing Carnival</span></b></em> that we want to explore at the IFTR 2025 conference in Cologne.
The Greek word <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ekstasis,</span></strong> meaning displacement, wonder and the feeling of being out of place in an “exalted state of feeling” (OED) is the hallmark of carnivalesque festivities in many cultures
around the world: Dancing and singing in the streets, indulging in and overindulging in drink and food, celebrating foolishness – these are all key elements of these excessive performances. <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Subversion</span></strong> draws
attention to the act of parody, satire and mockery – the symbolic overturning of the usual order that accompanies these activities. <strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Metamorphosis</span></strong> implies not only the external aspect of
costume and masquerade but also the promise/thread of a truly transgressive or transformative experience of becoming someone/something else…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">IFTR 2025 invites reflections on performances of the carnivalesque in all forms, facets, and aspects, historical and cultural contexts. In examining the social and political dimensions
of carnival, various questions arise: Does its promise of overturning the order entail political change? Or is it just a safety valve serving those in power? Order and disorder, power and anarchy seem to be linked in a dialectical way that becomes visible
and tangible in the liminal sphere of carnival.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">While the cultural, historical, and social specificities of the carnivalesque may vary, they all share a common thread: an explicitly physical experience. This links carnival to performance.
Unlike other forms of cultural expression, the carnivalesque demands the performing body to become experienceable. Though also making use of language and discourse, the carnivalesque usually privileges the sensual, physical experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Nevertheless, the notion of the carnivalesque Other-World (<em><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Anderwelt</span></em>) should not be romanticized. It is not an idyllic,
peaceful realm. The carnivalesque encompasses both the excess of violence, horror and the uncanny, as well as the elements of merriment and entertainment. It is, in fact, a genuinely liminal sphere, open to all possibilities and perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">IFTR 2025, situated in the city of Cologne, which itself has a longstanding tradition of carnival, offers an opportunity to revisit the concept of carnival in the twenty-first century.
In an age characterized by the ascendance of political actors who employ masquerade and exaggeration as a means of exerting influence, and in which the ubiquitous stream of images, stories and sounds creates a multiplicity of competing world views, which frequently
obscure real conflicts and power games, reflections on carnival and the carnivalesque have acquired a contemporary urgency.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Possible themes (the list is not meant to be definitive but rather invites extension in all forms):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Cultural Appropriation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Power<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Violence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Gender<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Transformation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Transgression<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Queering Carnival<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Public Spheres of Performance<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sites of Carnival<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">(Un)Masking<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Ritual<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Ecologies of Carnival<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Economies of Carnival<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Cultural Imaginaries<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Material Cultures<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and (Screen) Media<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Global (Dis-) Connections<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Carnival and Religion<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts of between 200 and 250 words are invited for this conference from scholars, teachers, researchers, artists, and students of theatre arts, theatre studies, performance studies,
and other related disciplines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">All abstracts should be submitted to </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/iftr/conference"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue">Cambridge
Core</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">. Please do not send abstracts to the organizers. Please note that you have to be a member of the IFTR to submit an abstract. To join the IFTR or renew your membership, visit the </span></strong><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/iftr/membership"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:blue">Cambridge
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts:<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">15 January 2025.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Contact us on: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:iftr-orga@uni-koeln.de">iftr-orga@uni-koeln.de</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Conference Dates<strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">: 9 – 13 June 2025</span></strong><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
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