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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">IFTR Annual Conference 2027: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">PiPS
2027 CFP</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;"><b>Convenors: Dr. David Calder (david.calder@manchester.ac.uk), Dr. Sam Čermák (acermak@ed.ac.uk), and Dr. Fraser
Stevens (f.stevens@usask.ca)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">University of the Peloponnese</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Nafplion, Greece: </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">June
28-July 02, 2027</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">KEYWORDS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Performance studies, public space, site, private</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Performance in Public Spaces WG CALL FOR PAPERS / ABSTRACT PROPOSALS</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> <b>2027</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The working group Performance in Public Spaces looks forward to engaging with the conference theme ‘Hybridity’ and
looks to focus in, especially, on the conference subtitle: rethinking borders and boundaries in theatre/performance and beyond. Over the past years our conversations have naturally interrogated public space and associated performance in many different capacities.
This year we are exploring the lines and contours that shape and delineate performance in public space. To that end, we are posing the following prompt: what are the borders and boundaries of performance in public space as they relate to…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">Privacy<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Additionally, we look to engage the breadth of analysis that the theme of hybridity offers us. In turn, what does
any subject from the list above do when acting as the preceding or contextualizing term for performance in public space? e.g. queer performance in public space or religious performance in public space.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Beyond these considerations, we welcome proposals that, as the conference organizers propose, consider hybridity
as ‘conjoining/disjoining, constructing/deconstructing, synergizing, fusing or blending of cultures, forms, mediums or technologies – [offering] new ways of thinking about, making, and participating in theatre.’ What insights do we gain when thinking of performance
in public space in hybridized ways? What are the research methods that would enable these explorations? What hybridized research methods might we employ or create? Answers to these questions might address any number of the categories laid out in the call,
including creation and speculation, experience and aesthetics, methods and theories, impact and efficacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Abstracts/proposals of between 200 and 250 words are invited for this conference from scholars, teachers, researchers,
artists, and students of theatre arts, theatre studies, performance studies, and other related disciplines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Our Process</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">We present traditional 15-20 minute papers at our working group sessions or performative presentation to foster debate
and discussion. We encourage work presented in process, research in early stages, grant proposals, half-baked ideas, and artistic and research sharings of all kinds in order to foster collegial discussions and feedback on researchers work. We strongly encourage
members to attend every session of the Working Group during the conference so as to contribute to discussion throughout. Our sessions also include, wherever possible, a walking tour with a local artist on performance of public spaces in the conference location.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">All abstracts should be submitted to via the IFTR website. Please visit the </span></b><a href="https://iftr.org/conference-2027/"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 51, 102);">IFTR
Conference 2027</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> page. When prompted, please select ‘Performance in Public Spaces’ from the Working Group drop down menu. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Please do not send abstracts to the convenors. For more information on IFTR’s bursaries, visit </span></b><a href="https://iftr.org/about/bursaries/"><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 51, 102);">https://iftr.org/about/bursaries/</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: <b>2 November 2026</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Notification of Acceptance: <b>21 December 2026</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">For enquiries please contact: <a href="mailto:performanceinpublicspace@gmail.com" style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif;">performanceinpublicspace@gmail.com</a> or any of the convenors</p>
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