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<b>IFTR 2027: Performance and Migration Working Group </b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Convenors: </span>Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa); Sheetala Bhat (York University); Steve Wilmer (Trinity College, Dublin).</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">For inquiries</span>, please contact: <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102); font-weight: bolder;">
<a href="mailto:iftr.performance.migration@gmail.com" id="OWA987ceadd-f1e8-b634-e4f2-3f86ec15bece" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102);"><u>iftr.performance.migration@gmail.com</u></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">CALL FOR PAPERS 2027</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bolder;">“Hybrid Mobilities: Researching Performance and Migration” (</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102); font-weight: bolder;"><a href="https://iftr.org/conference-2027/" id="OWAe6db918d-550e-2821-f9fe-a50436047c1d" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102);"><u>in
response to the IFTR 2027 theme</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bolder;">) </span></div>
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Responding to the 2027 IFTR World Congress theme, <i>Hybridity: Rethinking Borders and Boundaries in Theatre/Performance and Beyond</i>, the Performance and Migration Working Group invites proposals that examine the intersections of migration, mobility, borders,
and performance through the lens of hybridity and innovative methodologies for researching and creating theatre in contexts of migration. </div>
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The Working Group welcomes contributions that investigate theatre and performance in contexts of migration, exile, displacement, diaspora, multilingualism, border crossings, and transnational mobility. We are especially interested in papers that reflect critically
not only on what migratory performance does, but also on how it is created, documented, analysed, archived, and theorized. As performance increasingly unfolds across multiple languages, media, political realities, and cultural contexts, what methodological
approaches enable us to research and make theatre in migratory conditions?</div>
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We welcome proposals that explore theatre and performance in relation to migration, exile, displacement, diaspora, borders, and mobility. Contributions may address multilingual and intercultural performance, artistic and practice-based research, archives and
memory, digital and hybrid performance, pedagogies of migration, hospitality, belonging, and cultural translation. We encourage diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, including interdisciplinary, ethnographic, archival, digital, decolonial, collaborative,
and community-engaged approaches.</div>
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Greece—as a historical and contemporary crossroads of migration, cultural exchange, and geopolitical transformation—provides a particularly rich setting for exploring these questions. We particularly encourage proposals that examine migration and performance
in Greece, the Mediterranean, and other border regions as sites of cultural encounter, transit, displacement, hospitality, conflict, and belonging—spaces where identities, histories, and communities are continually negotiated, contested, and reimagined through
performance.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Abstracts</span></div>
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Please submit an abstract of 200–250 words. We encourage applicants to indicate:</div>
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the research methodology informing the project;</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
the geographical, historical, political, and cultural context of the research;</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
any interdisciplinary, collaborative, or practice-based dimensions of the work.</li></ul>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Presentation Formats</span></div>
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Applicants are invited to indicate their preferred presentation format.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Working Group Seminar</span></div>
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The Performance and Migration Working Group follows a collaborative seminar model. Participants are organized into small discussion groups, whose members circulate and read one another’s papers before the conference. During the conference, each participant
gives a concise 5–7-minute presentation highlighting the paper’s central argument, methodology, and principal findings. The presentation is followed by an extended discussion, allowing substantial time for collective feedback and exchange. This format emphasizes
dialogue, peer review, and the development of works in progress.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Open Paper Panel</span></div>
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Applicants may indicate their preference for presenting a traditional 20-minute conference paper as part of an IFTR Open Panel. Because the number of Open Panel places is limited, proposals submitted for this format may, in consultation with the conveners,
be transferred to the Working Group Seminar if accepted.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bolder;">Please indicate your preferred presentation format when submitting your abstract.</span></div>
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The conveners hope that papers developed through the Working Group will contribute to a future edited collection on research methodologies in performance and migration in the
<i>Palgrave Studies in Performance and Migration</i> series.</div>
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We welcome proposals from scholars, artists, practitioners, independent researchers, and postgraduate students at all career stages. Applicants eligible for the IFTR New Scholars Forum should consult the New Scholars page for submission details. First-time
IFTR attendees who qualify as New Scholars are encouraged to apply through that stream.</div>
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<b>Submission Information</b></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Abstract submission will open through </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102);"><a href="https://iftr.org/conference-2027/" id="OWAcf2431a4-d444-73fb-ed3c-07c065ce7732" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(204, 51, 102);"><u>the
IFTR Conference website on 1 October 2026</u></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Please note that you must be an IFTR member to submit an abstract or register for the conference.</span></div>
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<b>Key dates</b></div>
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Membership registration opens: 1 October 2026</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
Abstract submissions open: 1 October 2026</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
Deadline for abstract submissions: 2 November 2026</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
Notification of acceptance: 21 December 2026</li><li style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;">
Accommodation discounts: 1 January–14 February 2027 (early booking is strongly recommended, as Nafplio is a popular tourist destination).</li></ul>
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Yana, Steve and Sheetala </div>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="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>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="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 class="elementToProof" style="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>
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Ottawa (ON), Canada, K1N 6N5</span></p>
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