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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>CFP: International Conference</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>BEYOND GENTRIFICATION:</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>PERFORMING SPATIAL TRANSFORMATION</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Dates: </b>
June 24-25, 2027</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Venue: </b>
Seminarraum 1+2, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Sharon Zukin, Professor Emerita of Sociology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Brooklyn College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Since the late 1990s, scholars working across the different disciplinary contexts of Theatre and Performance Studies,
Urban Studies, and Cultural Geography have converged around a key question: how do the arts transform urban spaces in tangible and intangible ways? In Theatre and Performance Studies, this question has led to discussions around the
<i>agency </i>of theatre and performance, with scholars outlining both the transformative political potentials of theatre and performance practices, and the material dynamics - like changing cultural policies, decreasing funding opportunities, and political
pressures - that limit these potentials. Meanwhile, in Urban Studies, scholars have examined the impact of cultural producers and cultural institutions, and the role played by the symbolic economies that they generate in urban space. Research on art as an
agent of urban change has been particularly strong in scholarship on gentrification, where otherwise differing approaches have agreed on the pioneering role of culture.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">This conference seeks to build on this budding interdisciplinary conversation to re-examine the relationship of theatre
and performance to spatial history, development and transformation. Rather than taking the question of agency or causality as a given, however, we seek to think expansively about the
<i>many</i> roles that theatre and performance play in altering, developing, and negotiating both urban and non-urban space. While open to scholars working across Theatre and Performance Studies and Urban Studies, we also intend for our use of the term “performance”
to function expansively, and invite proposals that examine a range of cultural forms, including dance, music, festivals, art biennials, and nightlife. In that light, paper proposals could consider:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- Processes of urban transformation that involve but also look
<i>beyond </i>gentrification, including:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Deindustrialization and the adaptive use of industrial sites for performance</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The impact of infrastructural change (such as new spaces of transit) on performance</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The securitization and surveillance of cultural and performance spaces</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The impact of climate adaptation on performance spaces and practices</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- Historical periods that
<i>precede</i> the classic late-twentieth-century timelines of gentrification research, including:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Performance spaces during the heyday of industrial urbanization</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Interwar and socialist-era urban planning and performance</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Colonial urban design and performance spaces</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Performance in the midst of postwar reconstruction</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- Forms of urban transformation that
<i>differ from</i> Euro-American models, including:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Postcolonial urban transformations</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">State-driven redevelopment in mega-cities</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Performance in informal urban settlements</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Performance in the context of reconstruction following periods of conflict or war</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- Examples of spatial transformation that take place
<i>outside</i> the city, including:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Rural performance in contexts of agricultural change and/or depopulation</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The experiences of sub-urban, regional, or touring performance networks in an age of expanded urbanization</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: black;">o </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Performances in borderlands, contested zones, or other spaces of discontinuity</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Additionally, we are interested in proposals that approach performance and the transformation of space via novel and/or
mixed methodologies. These could include what are variously labeled arts-based, participatory, or practice-as-research approaches, forms of visual ethnography, or practices of participatory mapping and cartography.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Submission Guidelines:</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Proposals should be submitted to
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:emine.fisek@oeaw.ac.at" id="OWA42e55f1c-6af3-ae94-112e-dbd184bf0271" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>emine.fisek@oeaw.ac.at</u></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">
by October 15, 2026. Submissions should include (in a single file):</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- The author’s name, affiliation, and contact information;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- The title of the proposed paper;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- An abstract of 300 words;</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">- A short biography of up to 150 words.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Selected papers will be published in a peer-reviewed collection.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Schedule:</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2026</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Invitations Sent: November 30, 2026</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">Conference Dates: June 24-25, 2027</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">A limited number of partial bursaries for travel and/or accommodation may be offered, subject to available funding. If
you would like to be considered for a bursary, please let us know in your proposal.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">This conference is organized by the members of “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” (THEAGENT), a multi-year
research project funded by the European Research Council (Grant #101043740). For details, please see:</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;">The “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” project consortium includes the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of the University of London, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the American University of Paris.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: black;"><b>Contact:</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">PI, ERC Consolidator Grant "Theatre and Gentrification in the European City"</span></p>
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