CONFERENCES

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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2021 Augsburg

„Critical Theatre Ecologies“
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 9.2, 2022.)

2019 Graz

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.)

2018 Hildesheim

Fear and Anxiety in Contemporary Drama and Performance
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(Selected conference papers will be published in JCDE 7.1, 2019.)

2017 Reading

„Nation, Nationhood and Theatre“
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2016 Eichstätt

„Theatre and Mobility“
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2015 Barcelona

„Theatre and Spectatorship“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 4.1, 2016.)

2014 Hamburg

„Theatre and History: Cultural Transformations“
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2013 Prague (Charles University)

„Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 2.1, 2014.)

2012 Mühlheim/Ruhr (University of Bochum)

„Bodies on Stage“
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(Selected conference papers are published in JCDE 1.1, 2013.)

2011 Mainz

„Ethical Debates in Contemporary Theatre and Drama“
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2010 Paderborn

„Narrative in Drama“
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2009 Vienna

„Staging Interculturality“
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2008 Attendorn (University of Siegen)

„Adaptations: Performing across Media and Genres“
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2007 Heidelberg

„Non-Standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre“
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2006 Augsburg

„Drama and/after Postmodernism“
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2005 Bremen

„Mapping Uncertain Territories: Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre and Drama“
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2004 Vierzehnheiligen (University of Bamberg)

„Staging Displacement, Exile, and Diaspora“
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2003 Meissen (University of Dresden)

„Extending the Code: New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression“
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2002 Rothenfels (University of Würzburg)

„Global Challenges and Regional Responses in Contemporary Drama in English“
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2001 Vienna

„(Dis)Continuities: Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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2000 Bad Alexandersbad (University of Bayreuth)

„Crossing Borders: Intercultural Drama and Theatre at the Turn of the Millennium“
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1999 Rauischholzhausen (University of Giessen)

„Mediated Drama / Dramatized Media: From Boards to Screens to Cyberspace“
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1998 Leutersdorf (University of Mainz)

„Race and Religion in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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1997 Paderborn

„Anthropological Perspectives in/on Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English“
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1996 Blaubeuren (University of Tübingen)

„Beyond the Mainstream“
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1995 Dresden

„Drama and Reality“
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1994 Siegen

„Centres and Margins“
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1993 Siegen

„New Forms of Comedy“
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