[Candrama] Final Reminder: Call for Papers: Stanislavsky and Neurodiversity (book proposal)

[Paul Fryer]

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*Call for Papers: Stanislavsky and Neurodiversity *

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The S Wordpresents a call for papers for the edited 
collection:Stanislavsky and Neurodiversity: Practice, Pedagogy and 
Professional Performance

This collection will be submitted to Routledge to propose inclusion as 
part of the Stanislavsky And...book series.(Routledge, Taylor and 
Francis) https://www.routledge.com/Stanislavsky-And/book-series/STAS 
<https://www.routledge.com/Stanislavsky-And/book-series/STAS>.

As Stanislavsky and his contemporaries were working in a time before the 
conceptualisation and scientific understandings of neurodiversity, the 
practices of Stanislavsky and his successors reflect both historical and 
contemporary norms of cognitive functioning.

The context of training and performance today prompts a reconsideration 
of canonical practices. Since the emergence of the neurodiversity 
paradigm and movement in the late 1990s, both understanding of the 
neurodiversity concept and understanding of the experiences of 
particular neurominority groups has grown. Despite this, the existing 
research into neurodiversity and professional performance training and 
practice remains limited.

With the widespread influence that Stanislavskian practice has had on 
Western actor training, it is essential to interrogate where it 
privileges particular cognitive processing styles and ways-of-being in 
the world. As training settings endeavour to be more neuroinclusive, 
this is a timely moment to engage in-depth with how Stanislavskian 
practice can be reconfigured through engagement with neurodiversity 
theory and the voices of neurominority actors, actor-trainers and 
researchers.

This edited collection builds upon a hybrid symposium held on the 2nd 
and 3rd May 2025 supported by Notre Dame University, CHASE Doctoral 
training partnership, and BIMM University.

To sit alongside contributions from this event, we invite submissions 
from teachers, practitioners, and researchers of acting and performance 
that place the work of Stanislavsky or those who followed on from him in 
relation to neurodiversity.

In order to address underrepresented perspectives, and to continue 
threads that emerged through the symposium conversations, we are 
particularly interested in contributions on:

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    Neurodiversity and practices from the Stanislavskian lineage (e.g.
    Chekhov, Meyerhold, Meisner, Knebel, Hagen and those who followed them )

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    Intersectional perspectives on Neurodiversity and Stanislavsky (and
    in particular the intersections of neurodiversity and race in
    Stanislavskian practice)

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    neurodivergent embodiment (stims, tics, atypical physicality)

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    neurodiversity approaches to mental health difference/mad
    experiences of Stanislavsky (e.g. altered states, divergent
    experiences of reality/emotion)

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    Working with Stanislavsky without spoken language

We are also open to submissions of work connecting Stanislavskian 
practice and neurodivergence focused on other areas, especially that 
which centres those often underrepresented in conversations on 
neurodiversity and performance.

We are prioritising work by those with lived experience, or which is 
co-produced with neurodivergent students or participants.

We are also interested in hearing from neurotypical researchers with 
specialisms in Stanislavskian practices who would be interested in 
co-authoring work with neurodivergent researchers, actors or students.

We invite proposals for essays (between 3000 and 6000 words), shorter 
reflections on practice (up to 1000 words), and conversations, and are 
happy to have other formats suggested as suits the work and needs of the 
authors.

Please send expressions of interest (these can be brief indications of 
topic or full abstracts, and are welcome in written, video, voice memo 
or other formats) to zoeelizabethglen at gmail.com 
<mailto:zoeelizabethglen at gmail.com>, kiramorsley at hotmail.com 
<mailto:kiramorley at hotmail.com>and klarahricik at gmail.com 
<mailto:klarahricik at gmail.com>by *20th June*.

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Prof. Paul Fryer PhD, FRSA, FHEA.
Visiting Professor, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
Co-Director, The Stanislavsky Research Centre (University of Leeds/University of Malta)
Consultant Editor, Stanislavski Studies
Series Editor, Stanislavsky And...(Routledge/Taylor & Francis).
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