Diagnosing and potentially combating various forms and areas of exclusion has been one of the leading themes in recent public debate. However, experiences excluded from (or actively working against) dominating social practices have repeatedly proven to be artistically stimulating, leading to numerous and diverse cultural phenomena.

The fields of theatre and performance arts seem to showcase the practices and narratives of inclusion, belonging, and exclusion particularly well throughout diversified approaches - academic and artistic, historical and contemporary. This year’s conference aims to reveal the past, present and forming mechanisms of creation and perpetuation of exclusion zones, as well as to analyse miscellaneous concepts of minorisation and minority positions.

The committee invites young researchers and PhD candidates to delve into the causes and effects of exclusions, as related especially to the broadly defined field of performative arts. The organisers are open to both theoretical and empirical approaches, as well as to different methodologies and disciplines. Papers on dramatic, musical and dance theatre as well as performance and interdisciplinary art and contemporary dramaturgy will be highly welcome. 

The organisers especially encourage papers dealing with:

• performative arts tackling issue of exclusion
• participatory art and theatre
• historiography as practice of selecting and excluding narratives
• historical artistic initiatives dealing with exclusion
• theatre pedagogy and art therapy
• feminist theatre and performance
• queer theatre and performance
• theatre and disabilities
• institutions as agents of exclusion 
• inclusive theatre critique
• inclusive practices in performing arts

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