IMPACT 2027 – Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Call for Proposals
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is pleased to announce the international symposium Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation. This symposium aims to offer comprehensive perspectives from a diverse range of disciplines that engage with improvisation as an art form, a method of creation, or an object of research.
IMPACT 2027 explores the concept of negotiation as a central condition of improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. Encounters between different disciplines may generate collaboration, negotiation, tension, misunderstanding, transformation, and illumination. Contributions are invited that explore how artistic work and knowledge are shaped through and by spontaneity.
Deadline: 15 November 2026
Time and Place: 11–13 Februar 2027, Tallinn, Estonia
Opera and Dance in Nineteenth-Century Italy
This two-day conference invites scholars to explore interactions between opera and dance in Italy and the Italian operatic industry from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives. The overall aim is to consider what the interaction between the two art forms — extending to their literal occupation of the same theatres — might reveal about broader shifts in Italian musical culture across the period 1790–1922.
Time and Place: 14.–15.01.2027, University of Rome La Sapienza
Opera Culture in European Metropolises: A Comparative Perspective on the 1920s and 1930s
(Conference of the DFG research project Berlin Opera Culture 1925–1944)
Opera, an art form with a specifically urban character that has always been international in scope, did not shut itself off from social and political change. The way we experience opera today took shape particularly during the interwar period. This included the abolition of court opera, the shift from repertoire theatre to en suite theatre, the emergence of stage direction as an art form in its own right, equal to the musical performance, and the widespread mediation of opera events through newspapers, radio and film. Simultaneously, opera institutions faced competition from privately funded musical entertainment theatres, which had a considerable impact on the dramaturgy of the operatic genre. The conference is interdisciplinary in scope and spans the fields of cultural, institutional, compositional and social history of opera.
Time and Place: 08.–10.04.2027, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin