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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This collection will be submitted to Routledge to propose inclusion as part of the </span><span
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">As Stanislavsky and his contemporaries were working in a time before the conceptualisation and scientific understandings of neurodiversity, the practices of Stanislavsky and his successors reflect both historical and contemporary norms of cognitive functioning.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The context of training and performance today prompts a reconsideration of canonical practices. Since the emergence of the neurodiversity paradigm and movement in the late 1990s, both understanding of the neurodiversity concept and understanding of the experiences of particular neurominority groups has grown. Despite this, the existing research into neurodiversity and professional performance training and practice remains limited.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">With the widespread influence that Stanislavskian practice has had on Western actor training, it is essential to interrogate where it privileges particular cognitive processing styles and ways-of-being in the world. As training settings endeavour to be more neuroinclusive, this is a timely moment to engage in-depth with how Stanislavskian practice can be reconfigured through engagement with neurodiversity theory and the voices of neurominority actors, actor-trainers and researchers.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">This edited collection builds upon a hybrid symposium held on the 2nd and 3rd May 2025 supported by Notre Dame University, CHASE Doctoral training partnership, and BIMM University.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">To sit alongside contributions from this event, we invite submissions from teachers, practitioners, and researchers of acting and performance that place the work of Stanislavsky or those who followed on from him in relation to neurodiversity.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">neurodivergent embodiment (stims, tics, atypical physicality)</span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">neurodiversity approaches to mental health difference/mad experiences of Stanislavsky (e.g. altered states, divergent experiences of reality/emotion)</span></p></li>
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role="presentation"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Working with Stanislavsky without spoken language</span></p></li>
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<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are also open to submissions of work connecting Stanislavskian practice and neurodivergence focused on other areas, especially that which centres those often underrepresented in conversations on neurodiversity and performance.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are prioritising work by those with lived experience, or which is co-produced with neurodivergent students or participants. </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><span
style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are also interested in hearing from neurotypical researchers with specialisms in Stanislavskian practices who would be interested in co-authoring work with neurodivergent researchers, actors or students.</span></p>
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style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">We invite proposals for essays (between 3000 and 6000 words), shorter reflections on practice (up to 1000 words), and conversations, and are happy to have other formats suggested as suits the work and needs of the authors.</span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Prof. Paul Fryer PhD, FRSA, FHEA.
Visiting Professor, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
Co-Director, The Stanislavsky Research Centre (University of Leeds/University of Malta)
Consultant Editor, Stanislavski Studies
Series Editor, Stanislavsky And...(Routledge/Taylor & Francis).</pre>
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