Theatre Faculty of Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno is pleased to invite you to the 9th Conference of Doctoral Studies in Theatre Practice and Theory.

This year´s topic is EXPERIENCE AS A RESEARCH METHOD IN PERFORMING ARTS. The conference will be held on 22-23 November 2019 in Brno, Czech Republic. The programme has been published on our website and you can also follow us on facebook.

This year´s keynote speaker is Johana Kotišová, PhD. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University. She also works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and at the Department of Film and Theatre Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc. She is a part of Screen Industries in Central and Eastern Europe Research Group (SIRG) where she conducts applied media research, and an editor of Media Studies. Johana has a background in social anthropology, media studies, and sociology.

The keynote speech explores the potential of combining art and science. In particular, it aims at proposing, explaining and illustrating the use and advantages of "creative nonfiction" as a style of writing social science.

More about our keynote speaker here.

 

See you in Brno!