[Candrama] School of Performing Arts (University of Malta) - Annual Conference CfP

[Stefan Aquilina]

Dear all

Very happy to announce the following call for proposals for the annual
conference of the School of Performing Arts of the University of Malta. All
details below.

Best

Stefan Aquilina

School Director


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*Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance *

*9th Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of
Malta*

*22, 23 & 24 March 2023*

*Valletta Campus, Malta*


*Call for Proposals*



Following our successful virtual conference in 2022, the School of
Performing Arts (SPA), University of Malta, invites proposal submissions to
our 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on 22–24 March 2023. Our
first in-person and hybrid conference since 2020, this three-day
international conference brings together investigations and explorations
under the title of 'Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance'. The
COVID-19 pandemic has brought divergent ideas of the body, bodily praxes
and body politics to the very fore of social and political life across the
planet. In this light, the 2023 SPA Conference highlights embodied
epistemology and praxis in the performing arts (dance, theatre, music) as
well as the performance of politics and the political dimensions of
performance in the past, present and future. Situated at the nexus of
theory and bodily practice, the performing arts offer unique modes and
methods for questioning, expanding and problematizing notions of both the
body and the constitution and valuation of knowledge. At a time of
unprecedented ecological and geo-political crisis, questions of how diverse
bodies ‘know’ and how bodily knowledges are transmitted, occluded and/or
made meaningful are not only pressing areas of interdisciplinary research
but also key considerations for shifting conceptions of our world.



We invite proposals for papers and presentations in any format that address
any aspect of the conference theme broadly conceived. *Please indicate
whether your proposed presentation will be in-person or remote.* Possible
formats of presentation include:

·  Individual paper (15–20 minutes)

·  Practice-based presentation (15–20 minutes)

·  Collaborative paper (up to 30 minutes)

·  Pre-organised panel (3–4 participants, up to 90 minutes total)


Topics for presentation include, but are not limited to:

·  Historical case studies

·  Contemporary practices

·  Interdisciplinary approaches

·  Practice research

·  Bodies and performance within/without/across institutions

·  Feminist and queer embodiments

·  Critical race and bio-political perspectives on the production or
policing of body knowledges

·  Epistemic injustice and access in the performing arts

·  Typologies of ignorance and knowledge

·  Human, non-human and inter-species knowledges

·  Theories and practices of collective knowledge

·  Choreographies and performances of dissent

·  Transmission and translation of performance knowledge

·  Body politics across geo-political power differentials

·  Militaristic mobilisation of bodies

·  Challenges and transformations to body knowledges, the individual and
collective ‘body’ and the body politic, through COVID-19 restrictions and
any other historical moment


Proposals should contain the following information in a single electronic
document (Word file or PDF): First name and Surname; Institutional
affiliation (if any); Contact email address; Presentation online or
in-person (indicate one of two options); Title of presentation; Brief
description of presentation format; Abstract (300 words maximum); Brief
biography (125 words maximum).


Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to <jeremy.coleman at um.edu.mt> no
later than Monday 19th December 2022 (23:59 GMT+1). Notification of
acceptance or otherwise will be communicated in January 2023.



Co-conveners:

Dr Mika Lillit Lior (mika.lior at um.edu.mt)

Dr Jeremy Coleman (jeremy.coleman at um.edu.mt)
Dr Stefan Aquilina <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/stefanaquilina>
Director, School of Performing Arts <https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts>
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theatre Studies
<https://www.um.edu.mt/performingarts/theatre>
University of Malta

Office: 2340 2989
Co-Director, Stanislavsky Research Centre
<https://stanislavsky-research.leeds.ac.uk/>
Director, CTATT Research Project <http://www.ctatt.org/>

Book Publications:
*Stanislavsky and Pedagogy (*forthcoming; 2023) │The Routledge Companion to
Vsevolod Meyerhold
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Vsevolod-Meyerhold/Pitches-Aquilina/p/book/9780367627843>
 *│* *Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia: Primary
Sources
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/amateur-and-proletarian-theatre-in-post-revolutionary-russia-9781350170971/>*
 │*Modern Theatre in Russia: Tradition Building and Transmission Processes
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-theatre-in-russia-9781350066106/>
*│*Interdisciplinarity
in the Performing Arts: Contemporary Perspectives
<https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/onlinebookstore>*│*Stanislavsky in the World:
The System and its Transformations across Continents
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stanislavsky-in-the-world-9781472587886/> *

Other Publications:
'Physical training online: transitioning towards digital pedagogies
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19443927.2021.1968942>',
*Theatre,
Dance and Performance Training, *5 January 2022
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