Emine Fişek will present her paper, "Istanbul Mon Amour: Site-Specific Performance in a Transforming City" as part of the "SEES: Space as Experiment - Experimenting with Space" Webinar hosted by the Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts and the Austrian…

Regina Lissowska-Postaremczak will present the paper "Staging the City: Multi-Sited Methods for Studying Theatre and Gentrification in Contemporary Europe" as part of the "From Stage to State: The Role of Art in Shaping Democratic Spaces" Conference…

Clio Unger will present her paper "Performing European Publics through the Gentrification Economy: Tourism, Theatre, and Ideological Labour in Berlin" as part of the "Performing European Publics" Conference at the University of Manchester, June 4-5,…

Dr Clio Unger & Dr Joseph Prestwich, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Date & Time: Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, @ 12:00 Location: Bäckerstraße 13, Room 2D

By Dr Joseph Prestwich, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

A Panel with Ahmet Ersoy, Ziya Umut Türem, and Manca Juvan

about "Theater and Gentrification in Paris"

THEAGENT is hosting Gülay Uğur Göksell's talk, "Urban Crossings: Post-Migration Spaces and Artistic Encounters in Istanbul" as part of the "Arts-Based Research in Urban Geography" Panel taking place during the EUGEO Conference  

Wednesday, September…

THEAGENT team members will be presenting their work in the Performance Economies Working Group, co-founded by Clio Unger, at the International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference in Cologne. For the Program, see: …

THEAGENT team members will be holding a closed workshop with key interlocutors and Advisory Board members to share our collaborative work-in-progress. June 5-6, 2025 Austrian Academy of Sciences

It’s available online and is Open Access, with hard copies to be available soon. We warmly congratulate you on this great achievement.

Beyond Crisis: Performing Migration in Istanbul Theatre

What is the relationship between theatre and the twenty-first-century city? What impact do urban transformations have on theatre? And how do theaters themselves shape and participate in the urban environment? Join us as we bring together artists from…

with Clio Unger (CSSD) & Joseph Prestwich at London Theatre Seminar

with Emine Fişek at Performance and Migration International Working Group Meeting Focus on Research Methodologies via ZOOM

with Aurélien Bellucciat the European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS) Biennial Conference at Tallinn University, Estonia

THEAGENT Postdoctoral Fellow Aurélien Bellucci's paper, "Playing the Citizen’s Part: A Hong Kong Artist Stages Illegal Protests Online" won Special Mention at the 2024 IFTR Conference in Manila. Congratulations Aurélien!