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IFTR 2026 World Congress

6th – 10th July 2026

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Melbourne, Australia

IFTR 2026 World Congress

6th – 10th July 2026

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The International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) is a meeting point for theatre researchers across the globe. A membership organisation founded in 1957, it offers numerous benefits and opportunities for scholars to connect and share ideas: an annual conference bringing together working groups, general panels and new scholars panels; three book series; and an international peer review journal, now published by Taylor and Francis. We offer a range of memberships that you can view here.

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Announcing HydroArts – A Research

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are happy to announce the launch of the online research platform for the HydroArts project,

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CFP

CFP- Circus and its Others

Circus and its Others V Embracing flows and challenging genealogies: Ruptures, remains, and resurrections in circus studies and practice Thrissur,

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TRI has moved to Taylor

We are happy to announce that Theatre Research International has now migrated to Taylor and Francis. IFTR members may access

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IFTR Updates

We are proud partners in

WE ARE PROUD PARTNERS IN GLOBAL ARTS PACT (GAP) GAP is an international consortium activated to contest ongoing attacks on

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World News

“Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna” – English

We invite you to explore the English issue of Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna, featuring translations of selected articles from recent issues.

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Conference

Abstract Submission

**16 December: The issue witht he Abstract Submission page was resovled a few hours ago and it is now functioning.

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Theatre Research International Vol. 50

Theatre Research International Vol. 50 Issue 3 is now available on Cambridge Core. https://www.cambridge.org/.../theatre.../latest-issue This is a special issue on

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CFP

THE WORLD RITUAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM:

  THE WORLD RITUAL ARTS SYMPOSIUM: Performance, Practice, and Presence First Edition – 22–24 May 2026 Giuliano Campo   Ulster

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Member News

Extension of Abstract Submission Deadline

The deadline for Abstract Submission has been extended till 15 December 2025. To submit, visit https://iftr.org/conference-2026/

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Abstract Submission and Bursary Application

If you are submitting an abstract or bursary, please note that there will be no email confirmation. The confirmation is

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Call for Papers Workshop to

Theatre in Iraq and the Arab Gulf States: history, governance and the post-oil vision Munich, 21-22 May, 2026Conveners: Hadeel Abdelhameed,

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Conference

CfP – Performing Ends Symposium

Call for participation Performing Ends 2026 University of Antwerp Belgium October 28–30, 2026 Ends Collaborative Performance Research calls for participation

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Invitation to Collaborate: Extending Nature

Dear friends, Intercultural Roots is delighted to share with you am opportunity for practitioners in a new Innovate-UK funded Extending

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CFP

Abstract Submission and Bursary Application

The IFTR conference website (conference2026@iftr.org) is now ready but a minor issue regarding webhooks / redirection remains and will be

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IFTR Updates

New Scholars and Helsinki Prizes:

The annual deadline for the New Scholars and Helsinki Prizes is 15 November 2025. IFTR invites entries from any graduate

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Conference Site, Abstract Submission and

The IFTR conference website is not yet ready as there are tests that need to be performed, specifically the membership

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IFTR Updates

Membership Registration Receipt of Payment

Dear IFTR members,If you require a receipt from Stripe after payment for membership, please check your junk folder should you

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Job Postings

Chair of Performance, Faculty of

Concordia University’s School of Performance in the Faculty of Fine Arts invites applications for the position of Chair at the

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CFP

CfC for IBS@IFTR Conference 2026

Call for Contributions for a panel sponsored by the International Brecht Society (IBS) at the Annual Conference of the International

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Member News

Membership Registration Now Open

Dear IFTR members,The technical problems pertaining to the membership registration and payments are now resolved and you may register or

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IFTR Updates

Membership Registration. Technical Error.

Dear IFTR Members, We have encountered a technical issue with the Membership Registration and Payments function. The team has been

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CFP

New Scholars and Helsinki Prizes.

The IFTR now invites entries for the New Scholars Prize and Helsinki Prize, 2026. Information on the application can be

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Member News

New Scholars Forum – Preparing

New Scholars Forum – Preparing for the 2026 IFTR Conference 11 October 2025 08.00 to 09.30 (UK/Ireland time) or 15.00

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Conference

Call for Bursary Applications. IFTR

Information on Bursary Applications for #IFTR2026 Melbourne World Congress is now available on the Bursaries page.

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Member News

A Message from our President

Welcome to the new IFTR website! We would like to welcome all our existing members and invite new members to

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Member News

Theatre Research International Vol. 50

Theatre Research International Vol. 50 Issue 2 is now available on Cambridge Core. IFTR members may access the journal via Cambridge

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CFP

Call for Papers. IFTR 2026

The Call for Papers is now out. You can find it on the 'Conference 2026' page.  

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Member News

Employability of South African Doctoral

The National Research Foundation is pleased to invite you to the latest NRF Science for Society Lecture, entitled Employability of

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Experience Rhythms of Resistance: A

By Alexander Boyd Get ready for an extraordinary weekend of movement, liberation, and vibrant cultural exchange! We are thrilled to

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Article VIII

This constitution shall, as amended from time to time, come into force at the moment of its approval by the

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The Federation shall be free from any political, religious, ethnic, gender or other form of discrimination. In these articles, unless

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Article VI

The Federation is established for an unlimited period. It shall cease to function when, for any reason, two thirds of

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Article V

The Executive Committee is responsible for managing the Federation's affairs and finances and executing the decisions made by the General

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Article IV

The General Assembly is the sovereign power of the Federation. The General Assembly consists of all the members of the

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Article III

Membership of the Federation shall be open to any person who undertakes to promote the work and support the objectives

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Article II

The Federation is a charitable organisation that exists in the interest of theatre research and its aims are: to promote

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Article I

The Federation is called the International Federation for Theatre Research. The Federation is an association conforming to articles 60-79 of

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Working Groups

Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy

Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgy (TAD) working group was founded in 2009. It focuses on facilitating discussion and exchange on all

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Working Groups

Theatre & Architecture

Theatre & Architecture is an interdisciplinary working group that focuses on the intersections between the two disciplines by examining the

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Working Groups

The Theatrical Event

"A Theatrical Event is qualified by someone doing something, ostentatiously enough to be distinguished from everyday life, and someone who

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Working Groups

Scenography

Established in 1994 the Scenography Working Group focuses on the criticality of design as - and for - performance, the

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Working Groups

Samuel Beckett

The Samuel Beckett working group, first convened in 1996, meets every year at the IFTR conference. The group provides a

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Working Groups

Queer Futures

Queer Futures is a Working Group contained within IFTR which has met since 2010, welcoming all researchers at any stage

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Working Groups

Processus De Création. La Génétique

The Creative Process Working Group studies the genetics of performance: we are interested in the pre-performance to understand better the

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Working Groups

Popular Entertainments

This working group explores the multitude of global live popular entertainments in both historical and contemporary contexts. We focus especially

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Working Groups

Political Performances

The Political Performances WG engages variously with the diverse histories and intellectual traditions of political performance-making and its accompanying scholarship.

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Working Groups

Performance, Religion, and Spirituality

The PRS working group examines the interconnection between the forms and impulses of religion, spirituality, and theatrical performance, attending to

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Working Groups

Performance in Public Spaces

We seek to address the inherent interdisciplinarity of public, site-situated performance practices. We are interested in the intersections between performance

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Working Groups

Performance Economies

The newly established Performance Economies working group seek to convene at annual conferences every year to investigate how materialist methodologies

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Working Groups

Performance as Research

The Performance as Research Working Group explores issues related to performance as a mode of inquiry and is engaged in

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Working Groups

Performance and Migration

This working group aims to bring together specialists in theatre and performance studies, as well as in philosophy, history, politics,

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Working Groups

Performance and Disability

The Performance and Disability Working Group aims to provide a venue for the sharing and dissemination of scholarly and artistic

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Working Groups

Music Theatre

The aim of the Music Theatre working group is to examine a broad range of methodological and theoretical perspectives on

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Working Groups

Intermediality in Theatre & Performance

The Intermediality in Theatre & Performance Working Group was founded in 2003 and examines the interrelationships of theatre with other

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Working Groups

Interdisciplinary Performative Pedagogies

With members from a range of disciplines and international perspectives, the IPP working group is concerned with the varied intersections

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Working Groups

Historiography

Since its establishment in 1993, the Historiography Working Group has aimed to encourage critical debate on methodological and epistemological problems

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Working Groups

Feminist Research

The Feminist Research Working Group is a diverse collective of feminist scholars working in various strands of drama, theatre, and

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Working Groups

Embodied Research

This WG aims to establish an international platform through which to share innovative and traditionally informed approaches to the methodological,

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Working Groups

Digital Humanities in Theatre Research

The Working Group Digital Humanities in Theatre Research was founded in 2014 and uses computational methods, data, and/or digital tools

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Working Groups

Choreography and Corporeality

The Choreography and Corporeality working group is a site for exploring the overlap of choreography, broadly understood as designing movement

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Working Groups

Asian Theatre

The Asian Theatre working group, established in 2008, meets annually at the IFTR conference. The group facilitates discussions of practices,

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Working Groups

Arabic Theatre

   IFTR 2026 Conference    Arabic Working Group’s Call for Papers  IFTR 2026 Melbourne/ Australia   6th - 10th July

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Working Groups

African and Caribbean Theatre and

African and Caribbean Theatre and Performance Working Group IFTR 2026 World Congress 6-10 July 2026  The University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia

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CFP

Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger

By Christopher Balme The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at LMU Munich invites applications for fellowships of between 6

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CFP

CFP Edited volume, Theater and

By David Rodriguez-Solas We are seeking essays that explore the diverse manifestations of the far right from a global perspective.

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Conference

IFTR 2025 Cologne Updates on

# IFTR2025 | Updates on Registration We would like to draw your attention to the end of online registration via

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CFP

Deadline extension: 10th International Conference

By Emilia Maria Duran Almarza We are pleased to announce that the deadline for submission of proposals for CIJIET/Teatrales has

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CFP

ATR: Socially Engaged Performance: Accepting

By Claire French ATR: Socially Engaged Performance (formerly Applied Theatre Research) is now accepting submissions for volume 13, issue 2

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Conference

New Scholars’ Forum online Workshop

Updates IFTR2025 | New Scholars' Forum online WorkshopPost PhD?: Options and opportunities, CET 3pm-5pm What happens when a PhD is

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CFP

CFP for Emerging Scholars- Due

By Julia Moriarty For the latest issue of Etudes, we open our call for papers to invite scholarship on a

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CFP

CfP – Mid-Atlantic Popular &

By Laura Smith Call for Papers - MAPACA 2025 Summer Virtual Symposium - July 20, 2025 Online Call for Papers

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CFP

Theatre and Migration: The Productions

By Ruthie Abeliovich 23rd-25th November 2025 LMU Munich, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Organized by the ERC projects T-MIGRANTS (LMU

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CFP

Theatre Journal CFP: Institutionality

By Laura Edmondson Theatre Journal seeks article submissions by January 1, 2026 for a special issue on "Institutionality." Visit https://jhuptheatre.org/theatre-journal/author-guidelines

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CFP

Theatre Journal CFP: Staying Put

By Laura Edmondson Theatre Journal seeks article submissions by February 1, 2026 for a special issue on "Staying Put." Visit

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CFP

Call for Papers A Special

By Sinjini Chatterjee South Asia’s Courtesan, Hereditary, and Temple Performers: Expanding Discourse and Disrupting Histories A Special Issue of Dance

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CFP

Choreography and Institutions: Issues, Diagnoses,

By Monika Kwaśniewska-Mikuła The Polish open access journal ‘Didaskalia’ (indexed by Scopus and ERIH PLUS) invites submissions that reflect on

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Member News

PhD Scholarship – Advancing Digital

By Shane Pike An opportunity is available for eligible parties to undertake a funded PhD project to advance digital adoption

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CFP

CFP for Emerging Scholars- Due

By Julia Moriarty For the latest issue of Etudes, we open our call for papers to invite scholarship on a

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CFP

CFP: Theatre and Natural Intelligence.

By Martynas Petrikas Theatre and Natural Intelligence CALL FOR PAPERS ANTS Annual Conference 2025 Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Vilnius 25–27

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Conference

#IFTR 2025 Cologne Important Updates

#IFTR2025 Important Updates As many of you have received letters of acceptance, following remarks may be helpful to clear first

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CFP

PhD position in Theatre Studies

By Rikard Hoogland A full-time four-year PhD position at Theatre Studies, Stockholm University, is open for applications. The position starts

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CFP

Call for chapter proposals for

By Pranab Kumar Mandal This edited volume seeks to engage with non-Proscenium forms and practices of theatre performances in postcolonial

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WG News

Carnival invades the Museum of

By Giselly Brasil The article presents episodes that took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro

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CFP

Call for Papers: Theatre and

By Ruthie Abeliovich Theatre and Migration: The Productions and Aesthetics of Shifting Spaces23rd-25th November 2025LMU Munich, Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation Organized by the ERC projects T-MIGRANTS (LMU Munich) and DYBBUK (TAU) Space is a fundamental concept in human experience, shaping our environments and how we orient

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Member News

New Book Announcement: Making/Doing/Thinking: Methods

By Mark Fleishman This open-access handbook provides practical guidance on PaR methods for performance research, offering philosophical underpinnings and bespoke

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CFP

Call: The Janovics Center Award

By Christopher Balme The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at

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World News

Assistant Professor (Post-doc) in Research

By Malgorzata Budzowska The Department of Drama and Theatre at the University of Lodz is looking for an Assistant Professor

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Editor's Picks

Monograph “Quels rôles pour le

By Izabella Pluta The monograph explores key notions in the field of theatre such as perception, immersion, participation and new

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Editor's Picks

Book “Live Performance and Video

By Izabella Pluta This book, one of the first of its kind on the market, looks at the relationship between

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Member News

New book announcement: Queering the

By Hongwei Bao This book on queer East and Southeast Asian identity and cultural politics contains chapters on drag, performance

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CFP

Call for New Book Reviews

By Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira Call for New Book Reviews Editor for Performing Ethos Call for New Book Reviews Editor for Performing

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