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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><span
style="color:black">The S Word: Stanislavsky and the
Digital</span></strong><span style="color:black"><br>
<strong>Annual Symposium</strong><br>
Organised by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>The
Stanislavsky Research Centre (Leeds/Malta)</strong><br>
in partnership with <strong>The School of Arts and
Creative Industries, University of East London</strong></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color: black;">📅</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">17–20 June 2026 (the last day will
be online)</span></strong><span style="color:black"><br>
</span><span style="color: black;">📍</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">University of East London,
Stratford, E15 4LZ, London</span></strong><span
style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
size="2"><strong><span style="color:black">Keynote
Presentation: Vakhtangov in the MoCap Studio</span></strong><span
style="color: black;"> by <em>Tom Linden-McCarron and
Robin Berry</em></span></font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>Jean </strong><b><span
style="color: black;">Benedetti Lecture TBC</span></b></font>
<h3
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><span
style="color:black;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><u>Co-Conveners</u>:</span></strong><span
style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><span
style="color:black">Dr Evi Stamatiou</span></strong><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span
style="color:black">(University of East London), <strong>Zuzana
Jurechová</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Academy
of Performing Arts in Prague, DAMU) and <strong>Prof.
Paul Fryer</strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Stanislavsky
Research Centre)</span></font></p>
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face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><span
style="color:black;font-weight:normal;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><u>Call for Papers and Presentations</u></span></strong><span
style="color: black;"></span></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">The School of Arts and Creative
Industries at the University of East London is pleased to
launch its partnership with The Stanislavsky Research
Centre through<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>The
S Word - Stanislavsky and the Digital</strong>. As
digital technologies increasingly influence how
performance is created, taught, and experienced, we invite
scholars, artists, media practitioners, technologists, and
educators to consider how Stanislavsky’s legacy engages
with the technological turn of the twenty-first century.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">From virtual and augmented reality,
motion capture, and AI-assisted dramaturgy to online
collaboration, immersive storytelling, and screen-based
performance, this symposium asks how digital media reshape
the Stanislavskian principles of truth, presence,
embodiment, and emotion.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">We welcome submissions from teachers,
artists, filmmakers, game designers, digital
scenographers, immersive media practitioners, and
researchers whose work intersects with or reinterprets
Stanislavskian principles. What does it mean to<span
class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>train
truthfully </strong>when the actor’s tools include
data, sensors, or an avatar? How might the System evolve
within virtual classrooms, hybrid rehearsal spaces, or
motion capture studios?</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">The S Word is an international,
collaborative research project, created by Bella Merlin
and Paul Fryer, now celebrating its 10th year. Building on
The S Word’s mission to bridge historical and contemporary
practice, this symposium invites dialogue between
Stanislavsky’s foundational ideas and current digital
innovation, exploring how emerging technologies and
pedagogies may transform creativity, performance, and
actor training.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
size="2"><strong><span style="color:black">Topics of
Interest Include (but are not limited to):</span></strong></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Stanislavsky
and the Digital: intersections with VR, AR, motion
capture, AI, gaming, digital twins, and online performance
environments</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Digital
storytelling and performance: Stanislavskian principles in
screen acting, immersive media, and interactive narrative
design</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Reappraising
the System: how digital experimentation extends or
challenges truth, embodiment, affect, and the
psychophysical</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Teaching
Stanislavsky online: immersive pedagogy, remote
collaboration, simulation-based learning for acting and
media</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Digital
scenography and hybrid performance: projection mapping,
live-streaming, mixed-reality theatre, and the
actor–technology interface</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Archiving
and re-imagining Stanislavsky: digital humanities
approaches to preservation, documentation, reconstruction,
and analysis</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Stanislavsky
and the post-human performer: presence, identity, and
affect in technologically mediated or avatar-based
performance</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Interdisciplinary
perspectives: psychology, cognitive science, data-driven
creativity, and digital aesthetics in relation to
Stanislavsky’s legacy</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Ethics,
wellbeing, and inclusion in digital practice: emotional
safety, intimacy coordination, accessibility, and
representation in virtual space</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><strong><span style="color:black">Provocations</span></strong><span
style="color:black">: speculative, experimental, or
practice-based re-imaginings of Stanislavsky for the
digital performer, filmmaker, or educator</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
size="2"><strong><span style="color:black">Formats</span></strong></font></p>
<p
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Individual
Papers (20 minutes)</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Practice-as-Research
Presentations (20 minutes)</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Practical
Workshops (40 minutes)</span></font></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Panels
(60 minutes, minimum 3 contributors)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
size="2"><strong><span style="color:black">Submission
Details</span></strong></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">Please submit:</span></font></p>
<p
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">A
proposal of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>no
more than 300 words</strong></span></font></p>
<p
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</span></span></span></strong><span
style="color:black">A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>short
biographical note</strong><strong><span
style="font-weight:normal"></span></strong></span></font></p>
<p
style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo5;
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size="2"><span style="color: black;"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span
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</span></span></span><span style="color:black">Whether
you wish to present <b>in person or online</b> on the
final day, and your <b>time zone</b> so we can schedule
accordingly.</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">Send your proposal to:</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color: black;">📧</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">Dr Evi Stamatiou</span></strong><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span
style="color:black">–<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:e.stamatiou@uel.ac.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">e.stamatiou@uel.ac.uk</a><br>
</span><span style="color: black;">📧</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">Zuzana Jurechová</span></strong><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span
style="color:black">–<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:jurech01@st.amu.cz" moz-do-not-send="true">jurech01@st.amu.cz</a><br>
</span><span style="color: black;">📧</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">Prof. Paul Fryer</span></strong><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span
style="color:black">–<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:paul@paulfryer.me.uk"
moz-do-not-send="true">paul@paulfryer.me.uk</a></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color: black;">🗓</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><strong><span
style="color:black">Deadline for submissions: <u>31
January 2026</u></span></strong><span
style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span
style="color:black">Selected contributions will be
considered for the edited volume:<br>
</span><span style="color: black;">📘</span><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><em><span
style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:major-fareast;color:black">Stanislavsky
and the Digital</span></em><span
class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span
style="color:black">(Routledge, 2027).</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><strong><span
style="color:black">Registration opens Spring 2026.</span></strong></font><span
style="color:black"></span></p>
<p><br>
</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Prof. Paul Fryer MA, PhD, FRSA, FHEA.
Visiting Professor, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds (UK).
Co-Director, The Stanislavsky Research Centre (University of Leeds/University of Malta)
Consultant Editor, Stanislavski Studies
Series Editor, Stanislavsky And...</pre>
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