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TOP STORY: TaPRA 2025 Conference to be hosted at Warwick
We're delighted to announce that the annual Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) conference will be hosted by Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick between 27 and 29 August 2025. The conference will mark both the 20th birthday of TaPRA and the 50th anniversary of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick. Our conference keynotes, plenary panels, artistic activity, conference dinner and programmed events will speak to the themes of milestones and markers, focussing on celebrations, festivities, spectacle and joy. We'll look forward to welcoming you to Warwick next year!
To keep up to date with the conference plans, please visit our dedicated TaPRA pages here.
Congratulations to Dr Goran Petrović-Lotina who has been awarded the WIRL-COFUND (GRP Global Governance) Fellowship
Goran Petrović-Lotina is a theorist and curator in visual and performing arts. He is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study & Department for Theatre and Performance Studies, exploring the relationship between performance and populism; Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris Institute of Political Studies, where he launched a course on performance and politics; Founder and Co-curator of Fogo Island Film, a long-term project concerned with the diversity of relationships between nature and society, which takes place annually on Fogo Island in Canada.
Petrović-Lotina holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Ghent University and Master's Degrees in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po Paris: Institute of Political Studies and in Art History from the University of Belgrade. His research combines political philosophy and performance studies to examine the political dimensions of civic and artistic performances. His main field of inquiry is to explore how performance practices contribute to contesting dominant politics and invigorating democracy. He finds inspiration in theories of strategy, discourse, and hegemony, and has published around these topics in various journals and books.
Petrović-Lotina is a holder of IAS WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund fellowship grant (2019/21).