SAVE THE DATE: Annual Conference "New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre" | German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) | 19-22 June 2025 | Konstanz, Germany | Deadline: 7 February 2025
29. Januar 2025
33rd Annual CDE Conference, Konstanz (Germany), 19-22 June 2025
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 33rd Annual Conference (19-22 June 2025). It is organized by the University of Konstanz and will be held as a residential conference at Hotel St. Elisabeth in Allensbach, on the shores of Lake Constance.
New Stages for Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre
Questions of sex, gender and sexuality have been at the heart of political debates in recent years, as the attacks on transgender rights, the resurgence of right-wing extremism and its promotion of conservative family values and gender roles, and the amplification of so-called “culture wars” have shown. The aspirations for a postfeminist equilibrium and growing acceptance of LGBTQAI+ rights have been disappointed. The new millennium has not only witnessed new gender theories, but also controversies on sex, gender and sexuality in the arts. For instance, the #MeToo movement instigated a new wave of feminism by drawing attention to systemic sexist and abusive practices in the arts, where patterns of patriarchal control and exploitation are entrenched and habituated.
These trends did not go unnoticed in scholarly discussions. Jill Dolan, for instance, observes that the cultural debate surrounding feminist critique has “oscillated wildly across the political spectrum, from a more progressive position at one end to a much more dangerously conservative place on the other” (Dolan 2012: xiii). In this climate, a shift “from feminism to feminisms; from feminist theatre to feminist theatres” (Aston 1995: 9) has to some extent already taken place, as a survey of recent as well as long-established scholarship on sex, gender and sexuality shows (see e.g. Aston 1995; Goddard 2007; Case 2009; Greer 2012; Rosenberg, D’Urso and Winget 2021; Halferty and Leeney 2022; Angel-Perez and Rousseau 2023; Walsh 2023).
Our conference asks how the theatre has responded to and how it has fuelled or redirected these debates. Which aesthetic innovations, which new areas of investigation have evolved? How have developments in gender and queer theory been received, refuted or advanced in the theatre? How has the theatre reflected on its own institutional role and its own patriarchal, heteronormative traditions? How do economic pressures and political interests intersect (or not) in the theatre? What are the gains, gaps and limits in the relationship between theatre, theory and public discourse?
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