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Book "Live Performance and Video Games. Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers"
04 January, 2025 by Izabella Pluta | 0 commentsThis book, one of the first of its kind on the market, looks at the relationship between live performance and video games. Read more

Monograph "Quels rôles pour le spectateur à l'ère numérique?"
04 January, 2025 by Izabella Pluta | 0 commentsThe monograph explores key notions in the field of theatre such as perception, immersion, participation and new figures of spectator. Read more

Call for New Book Reviews Editor for Performing Ethos
02 January, 2025 by Felipe Henrique Monteiro Oliveira | 0 commentsCall for New Book Reviews Editor for Performing Ethos Read more

New book announcement: Queering the Asian Diaspora
02 January, 2025 by Hongwei Bao | 0 commentsThis book on queer East and Southeast Asian identity and cultural politics contains chapters on drag, performance art, fashion photography, and performance as social and political activism. Read more

Call for Pape the Theatrical Event working group, IFTR 2025 Cologne
13 December, 2024 by Rikard Hoogland | 0 commentsCultural Policy, Institutionalism, Values, Reception and Democratization of Performing Arts – Rethinking the Theatrical Event Read more

Call for chapter proposals for an edited volume on Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India
07 December, 2024 by Pranab Kumar Mandal | 0 commentsThis edited volume seeks to engage with non-Proscenium forms and practices of theatre performances in postcolonial India, which have shaped a distinct Indian identity in terms of performance makinng. Read more

CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE "THE PRISM OF FESTIVAL IN THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES", ROME, 9-10 OCTOBER 2025
05 December, 2024 by Roberta Gandolfi | 0 commentsCall for Participation for the International Conference "THE PRISM OF FESTIVALS IN THEATER AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES", Rome, 9-10 October 2025 Read more

Call for Contributions - Brecht and the Carnivalesque - IBS@IFTR2025
03 December, 2024 by Micha Braun | 0 commentsCall for Contributions for a panel sponsored by the International Brecht Society (IBS) at the Annual Conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Cologne, Germany, June 2025 Read more

Call for Papers: IFTR 2025 - Asian Theatre Working Group
22 November, 2024 by Berislav Juraic | 0 commentsAsian Theatre Working Group calls for papers for IFTR 2025 conference. Deadline: 15 January 2025 Read more