Visual Poetics

Members of Visual Poetics (Kyoko Iwaki, Jonas Schnor, Luca Artuso, and Theresa Spielmann) will be co-organizing a symposium next fall in Antwerp.

Who’s down to talk end-of-the-world vibes and performances? If you feel like just staying in Europe for 2026 performance studies conference circuit, join us.

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PERFORMING ENDS SYMPOSIUM 2026

Call for participation

The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025.

University of Antwerp, Belgium
October 28–30, 2026

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to the intersections of theatre, performance, and:
・Durational and sudden ends of worlds, lands, and languages
・Extinction and the ecological crisis
・Decolonial and indigenous perspectives on (world) endings
・Wars, conflicts, and ends of nation states
・Democratic ends and the dead ends of authoritarianism and patrimonialism
・More-than-human perspectives on and rituals of death, dying, grief, and mourning
・Posthuman and posthumous dramaturgies and theories
・Co-finitude and collective thought, action, and scholarship
・Cooperative epistemic, planetary, and ecological work
・Queer politics and endings
・Critical race theories among the ends
・The proliferation of AI and ends of remembrance and memory
・The ends of arts and humanities (and other academic) departments and institutions of higher-education
・The end of utopic and dystopic narratives of “the end”
https://performingends.com/ends-symposium-2026...
Proposals should include a title, a short abstract or description of the work (~300 words), and a short bio. Proposals can be submitted through the following form:
https://forms.gle/eFWdacua7XfbSLGT6

Call for proposals - Performing Ends 2026 University of Antwerp, Belgium 28-30 October 2026 Deadline: 1 December, 2025 We invite proposals in all forms, including but not limited to: artistic research presentations, performance lectures, roundtables, workshops, scholarly presentations, and provocations that address the key themes and ideas....