Please note that the working group Performance and Consciousness within IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) will next meet at the IFTR Annual Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-17^th. Please see http://firt2009lisboa.org/firt/papers/papers.html for the conference website with details on the conference. On this site you can submit a paper to the general conference, which has the overall theme Silent Voices, Forbidden Lives: Censorship and Performance. If you would like to present a paper, workshop or performance in the Working Group Performance and Consciousness, please send an abstract (paper) or description (workshop, performance) and a brief biographical note to the convenor of this working group at the Lisbon conference, Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe via [log in to unmask]. Deadline is 15 February 2009