PSi#27: Hunger seeks panels, artistic, activist and scholarly actions and interventions on the theme in a fully online conference on 6-9 July 2022.

We welcome proposals for two kinds of sessions: response panels and hunger action sessions.

The response panels can be a symposium or roundtable on any of the subthemes (Food, Water, Mal/Nutrition, Scarcity, Access and Distribution, Needs and Desire, Pain) and will encourage dialogues with intellectuals and practitioners from outside performance studies. Submissions to this format will ideally be done by teams that are already working collaboratively on the topic of their response.  Response panels will enable conversations on the specific ways through which performance studies’ methodologies and practices can contribute to global activism and discourse-making against hunger. Submissions by individual authors are welcome, and they will be grouped with other individual authors in pre-curated panels and symposia, with PSi providing opportunities for pre-conference exchanges.

The hunger action sessions can take the form of artistic exhibitions, performances, workshops, and onsite work with advocacy groups connected to the conference via a curated live format, with possible pre-recorded components. Some of these sessions can be public events streamed on Facebook. We are encouraging proposals that act with underprivileged communities or migrant communities that have a history of hunger.

Submit 200-word proposal abstracts by 1 November 2021. Acceptance letters and invitations to pre-curated panels (where relevant) will be released on 30 January 2022.

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