CDE’s annual conferences unite academics, teachers, students, playwrights, directors and other theatre practitioners for scholarly papers, workshops, drama performances and discussions.
Information about the upcoming CDE annual conference can be found here.
2024 Innsbruck
„Theatre in the Digital Age“
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 13.1, 2025.)
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2023 Erfurt/Halle
„Theatre & Community: Poetics, Politics, Performances“
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 12.1, 2024.)
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2022 Paris
„Theatre and the City“
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 11.1, 2023.)
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„Critical Theatre Ecologies“
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 9.2, 2022.)
„Theatre of Crisis. Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition„
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 8.1, 2020.)
„Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance„
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 7.1, 2019.)
„Nation, Nationhood and Theatre“
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„Theatre and Mobility“
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„Theatre and Spectatorship“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 4.1, 2016.)
„Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations“
Report • Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 3.1, 2015.
„Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 2.1, 2014.)
„Bodies on Stage“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 1.1, 2013.)
„Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama“
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„Narrative in Drama“
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„Staging Interculturality“
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„Adaptations: Performing across Media and Genres“
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„Non-Standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre“
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„Drama and/after Postmodernism“
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„Mapping Uncertain Territories: Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre and Drama“
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„Staging Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora“
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„Extending the Code: New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression“
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„Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English“
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„(Dis)Continuities: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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„Crossing Borders: Intercultural Drama and Theatre at the Turn of the Millennium“
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„Mediated Drama / Dramatized Media: From Boards to Screens to Cyberspace“
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„Race and Religion in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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„Anthropological Perspectives in/on Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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„Beyond the Mainstream“
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„Drama and Reality“
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„Centres and Margins“
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„New Forms of Comedy“
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