23-24 May 2025, Prague, Czech Republic; organized by Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
The conference concluded the research task “Assessment of Contemporary Theories of Performativity in View to Individual and Collective Cultural Identities and Their Conflicts” of the European Regional Development Fund project “Beyond Security: Role of Conflict in Resilience-Building” (reg. no.: CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004595). The programme consisted of two keynote lectures by Professor Pavel Drábek (University of Hull), and by Professor Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and Dr Rajni Shah (University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam University of the Arts), respectively, and of papers of 22 scholars from universities in Algeria, Argentina, Czech Republic, Ireland, Philippines, Portugal, Sweden and the U.K. The main theme of the conference was the role of the theories of performativity in the study of art, spirituality and modern media (film, multimedia art and internet). The important aim of the conference discussions was the search of the links between linguistic, theatre, media and political theories of performativity. This search characterized the six conference sessions with the following topics: Performativity in Society and Politics, Performativity in the Media – Theoretical Problems, Performativity on the Stage, Performing Identities in the Age of AI, Performativity, Conflict Zones and Resilience and Constructing Identities in Performance. Articles developing selected conference papers will be included in the special issue of the international academic journal Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 35.70 (2025) (Scopus) entitled “Performativity and Agonistic Pluralism in a Mediatised Age”.