CfP: Dramaturgies of Performance

The call for proposals for the international conference “Dramaturgies of Performance”, to be held from 2 to 5 of December, 2026, between NOVA FCSH and the Portuguese National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Chiado, organized by the Group Perfromance & Cognition of ICNOVA partnering with CEIS20, is open until 15 of June.

Francesca Negro, researcher at INET-md, is a member of the event’s scientific committee.

The organization of the event welcomes proposals of papers, conference-performance, performance or other formats, in Portuguese or English, on, among others, the following conceptual territories:

• Performance / Reality and Fiction
• Performance / Archives and Repertoire
• Performance / History
• Performance / Reenactment
• Performance / Ecology
• Performance / Technology
• Performance / Everyday Life
• Performance / Participation
• Performance / Photography
• Performance / Video
• Performance / Politics
• Performance / Ritual
• Performance / Metaperformativity
• Performance / Audience
• Performance / Sound
• Performance / Intimacy
• Performance / Gender
• Performance / Cognition
• Performance / Literature and Narratives
• Performance / Choreography

Deadline for the submission of proposals: 15 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 30 July 2026
Email: dramaturgiesofperformance@fcsh.unl.pt