*Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance *
*9th Annual Conference of the School of Performing Arts, University of
Malta*
*22, 23 & 24 March 2023*
*Valletta Campus, Malta*
*Call for Proposals*
Following our successful virtual conference in 2022, the School of
Performing Arts (SPA), University of Malta, invites proposal submissions to
our 9th Annual Conference, which will take place on 22–24 March 2023. Our
first in-person and hybrid conference since 2020, this three-day
international conference brings together investigations and explorations
under the title of ‘Body Knowledges: Praxis, Politics, Performance’. The
COVID-19 pandemic has brought divergent ideas of the body, bodily praxes
and body politics to the very fore of social and political life across the
planet. In this light, the 2023 SPA Conference highlights embodied
epistemology and praxis in the performing arts (dance, theatre, music) as
well as the performance of politics and the political dimensions of
performance in the past, present and future. Situated at the nexus of
theory and bodily practice, the performing arts offer unique modes and
methods for questioning, expanding and problematizing notions of both the
body and the constitution and valuation of knowledge. At a time of
unprecedented ecological and geo-political crisis, questions of how diverse
bodies ‘know’ and how bodily knowledges are transmitted, occluded and/or
made meaningful are not only pressing areas of interdisciplinary research
but also key considerations for shifting conceptions of our world.
We invite proposals for papers and presentations in any format that address
any aspect of the conference theme broadly conceived. *Please indicate
whether your proposed presentation will be in-person or remote.* Possible
formats of presentation include:
- Individual paper (15–20 minutes)
- Practice-based presentation (15–20 minutes)
- Collaborative paper (up to 30 minutes)
- Pre-organised panel (3–4 participants, up to 90 minutes total)
Topics for presentation include, but are not limited to:
- Historical case studies
- Contemporary practices
- Interdisciplinary approaches
- Practice research
- Bodies and performance within/without/across institutions
- Feminist and queer embodiments
- Critical race and bio-political perspectives on the production or
policing of body knowledges
- Epistemic injustice and access in the performing arts
- Typologies of ignorance and knowledge
- Human, non-human and inter-species knowledges
- Theories and practices of collective knowledge
- Choreographies and performances of dissent
- Transmission and translation of performance knowledge
- Body politics across geo-political power differentials
- Militaristic mobilisation of bodies
- Challenges and transformations to body knowledges, the individual and
collective ‘body’ and the body politic, through COVID-19 restrictions and
any other historical moment
Proposals should contain the following information in a single electronic
document (Word file or PDF):
First name and Surname
Institutional affiliation (if any)
Contact email address
Presentation online or in-person (indicate one of two options)
Title of presentation
Brief description of presentation format
Abstract (300 words maximum)
Brief biography (125 words maximum)
Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to <[log in to unmask]> no
later than Monday 19th December 2022 (23:59 GMT+1). Notification of
acceptance or otherwise will be communicated in January 2023.
Co-conveners:
Dr Mika Lillit Lior ([log in to unmask])
Dr Jeremy Coleman ([log in to unmask])
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Dr Jeremy Coleman <https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/jeremycoleman> | Lecturer
in Music Studies
B.A.(Hons)(Cant.),M.Phil.(Cant.),Ph.D.(Lond.)
*Area Director in Research*
School of Performing Arts
Room 131 Old Humanities
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