IFTR CONFERENCE - 2017 SAO PAULO - BURSARY APPLICATION
23 November, 2016 by Milena Grass | 1 comment
2017 Conference in Sao Paulo is approaching and the Bursary Application process is now open (submission deadline: December 22nd). If you want to apply, request the form at iftrbursaries2017@gmail.com
In its aim to foster international exchange, the IFTR offers finnancial aid to scholars willing to participate in its Annual Conference. To apply for a bursary, you have to fill a form (to be requested at iftrbursaries2017@gmail.com) with the following information:
1.- Personal info
2.- Referee's details, and support letter
3.- Budget
All amounts you mention below will be re-assessed by the Bursary Committee.
This step will be taken for the benefit of ALL applicants.
Applicants from Band B countries will get a maximum bursary up to 70% percent of these revised expenses.
Applicants from Band A countries will get a maximum bursary up to 50% of these revised expenses.
The bursaries will be disbursed by a bank transfer that will be processed on July 13th. Please consider that bank transfers usually take a week for the money to be available.
4.- Abstract proposal
5.- Brief cv
Policy Statement
Any bursary awarded by the IFTR is for the purposes of fostering and supporting scholars from all over the globe.
Abstract submission is a separate procedure. General Panel organizers and Working Group conveners will assess the abstract, and inform in due time whether it has been accepted. The Bursary Subcommittee is exclusively responsible for financial support allocation, and is not entitled to provide acceptance letters to the conference.
Applicants must become members of IFTR/FIRT in order to submit their abstracts.
Applicants should submit their referee’s letter along with the application form (as a separate file, or inserted in the application itself).
Should you be the winner of the New Scholars or Helsinki Prize, your bursary application will fall away. In other words you will not receive a double award.
Bursary awardees are expected to attend the full conference and IFTR/FIRT plenary on the last day. You cannot expect to be paid out in full if you have not attended the conference in full.
The IFTR 2017 Bursary Application Form can be downloaded here.
October 27, 2016
By sarahashfordhart
Unstable Geographies, Multiple Theatricalities
“Space must be considered as a totality, like the society itself that gives life to it (…) Space must be considered as a set of functions and forms that arise through processes of the past and present.”
Milton Santos
The 2017 conference theme, Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities,aims at the political and economic issues underlying the territorial and symbolic conflicts of a globalized world and, at the same time, targets the expansiveness of theatrical and performative fields that recognize and surprise each other. Massive migrations and the growing deterritorialization of human cultures have been accompanied by increasingly unstable artistic standards, concepts and institutional relations.
Brazil has historically welcomed forms of aesthetic representation from the Northern hemisphere and reprocessed them from a unique perspective that includes indigenous and African diasporic cultures. Contemporarily, the country presents itself as an exemplary locus for the multiple manifestations of an expanded and impermanent theatricality. Brazil was and is a complex mestiçagem of mingled races, ethnicities, nationalities and religions; it constitutes a malleable geographical phenomenon in which territories did not become distinct nations, as happened in other parts of Latin America. Instead, the country is made up of states and regions, with their cultures, accents and own vocations and individual identities founded mainly on differences.
The 2017 Conference site offers a space to consider the intense contemporary migratory flows and counterflows in which the peripheral regions of the globe radiate vitality to the Northern hemisphere and reverberate their traditions from a distinct point of view.
In this context, thinking about theatre and performance as open opportunities for action implies the search for more transformative relationships between art and society.
Subthemes
Art and insurrection: ethics, aesthetics and politics
Territories of conviviality and confrontation: hybrid sites of theatre and performance
Spaces of subjectivity: art and life
Boundaries of history: memory and invention
Pedagogies of crisis: places of artistic passage
Relations of artistic production: institutions and apparatuses
Spatialities of theatre and performance: shifts and displacements
Flows and counterflows: theatre and performance as and in migration
Cultural violences: identities and alterities