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Dear colleagues, </div>
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We hope your 2025–2026 academic year has begun well. The Performance and Migration IFTR Working Group is ready to resume our online meetings. We prepared two sessions for the Fall 2025:
<b>October 15 and November 11, 2025</b>.</div>
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We begin with the session “Practices and Dramaturgies of Migration” run by Steve Wilmer. We hope many of you will be able to attend. Here is the information:</div>
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<b>DATE: 15 October 2025</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b>TIME:</b> <b>10 am EST to 12 noon EST</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>
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<span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b>Zoom link</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>:</b>
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Https://uottawa-ca.zoom.us/j/91752767719?pwd=bc6tbaepYemPyxxCXP991KH4E35eat.1</a></span></div>
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You can find the schedule of the meeting and the abstracts of the interventions to be presented during this meeting attached to this message.</div>
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The focus of this meeting is practice: Performance has always been a space where lived experience meets artistic form. In migration contexts, practice is not simply the “application” of ideas—it is a process of negotiation, adaptation, and cultural exchange.
By foregrounding practice, we aim to highlight the creative labour, ethical questions, and collaborative methodologies that shape performance-making in migration contexts. These essays will demonstrate how practice both reflects and transforms the politics
of mobility, belonging, and representation.</div>
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Our <b>November 11, 2025</b> meeting will be dedicated to the online launch of the
<b><i>European Journal of Theatre and Performance</i>, Vol. 1, No. 7 (2025)</b>, focusing on the theme Exile and (Neo)Nationalism. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The group will meet at the </span><span style="color: rgb(200, 38, 19);"><b><a data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/" title="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAf83a2f37-499d-df6e-6497-2c9e37c88cf2" href="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/">IFTR
2026 gathering in Australia</a></b></span></div>
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We already issued a <b>CFP for our meeting at the IFTR 2026. You can find it attached to this note.
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We hope to receive many proposals. Please, be aware of the proposed schedule: </div>
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<b>1 November, 2025</b>: Abstract submissions open. </div>
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Abstracts must be submitted to the IFTR conference platform <a data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/" title="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA9fd820a6-6b84-9e07-3d6f-57ff54b703aa" href="https://iftr.org/conference-2026/">
via the IFTR webpage</a>. </div>
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<b>8 December, 2025:</b> Abstract submissions close.</div>
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Finally, this is a quick reminder that Steve and I continue to welcome book proposals (both monographs and edited collections) for our
<b><i><a data-auth="NotApplicable" originalsrc="https://link.springer.com/series/17066/books" title="https://link.springer.com/series/17066/books" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAfaa082f2-9868-0b47-b8c0-ee6a84de8939" href="https://link.springer.com/series/17066/books">Palgrave
series</a></i></b>. We would be delighted to read your work.</div>
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With warm regards, </div>
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Yana, Steve, and Sheetala</div>
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<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Yana Meerzon</b></span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professeure titulaire| Full Professor</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Directrice des études théâtrales | Director of Theatre Studies</span></p>
<p style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Département de théâtre | Department of Theatre<br>
Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa<br>
135 Séraphin-Marion, bureau 304B<br>
Ottawa (ON), Canada, K1N 6N5</span></p>
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Critical Stages/Scènes critiques</a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(32, 31, 30);"><br>
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Palgrave Studies in Performance and Migration (book series)</a></span></p>
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