[Commlist] Call for Papers: *Connessioni Remote* N. 11/2026: Performing Conflict

Call for Papers - Connessioni remote. Artivismo_Teatro_Tecnologia N. 11/2026

*Performing Conflict. Theatre, Art, and Performative Media Forms in Wars 
and Protests *

https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/connessioniremote/announcement/view/1007 
<https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/connessioniremote/announcement/view/1007> 


Abstracts Due: 10 March 2026

Full Paper Due: 10 May 2026

Contemporary wars, conflicts, and political protests exist in a 
condition that is increasingly inseparable from their representations. 
Current media and artistic ecosystems do not merely influence how these 
phenomena circulate but actively shape the very ways in which struggle 
is enacted.

Performance is no longer simply a “medium” through which violence, 
dissent, suffering, and resistance are seen, felt, and understood. 
Rather, performativity has become fully embedded in the operational 
dimension of contemporary conflicts. It is therefore increasingly 
necessary to explore the status of performance beyond the paradigm that 
considers it solely as a mediator or as a means of processing and 
metabolizing violence.

This issue of Connessioni Remote invites contributions that investigate 
artistic and media representations of conflict, war, and protest, with 
particular attention to the entanglement of performative practices, 
images, platforms, and political imaginaries. We welcome 
interdisciplinary perspectives that examine how conflicts are made 
visible, framed, contested, and re-mediated through theatre and the 
performing arts, as well as through performative actions unfolding 
across digital and legacy media.

Rather than treating images and performances as mere forms of 
documentation or illustration, this issue foregrounds their role as 
active agents of confrontation, as well as their capacity to shape 
public discourse, mobilization, memory, and responsibility.

*Key Themes and Areas of Interest*

We invite original contributions that may include, but are not limited 
to, the following topics:

  * Theatre and performance as sites of public and political
    intervention in relation to war
  * Performative practices developed under conditions of violence,
    censorship, and displacement
  * Theatrical works engaging critically with media imagery, historical
    trauma, and contemporary geopolitical crises
  * Artivism, artists’ activism, and aesthetics of dissent addressing
    historical and ongoing conflicts
  * Visual and performative politics of protest
  * Performative responses to war, genocide, and forced displacement
  * Theatre as testimony in conflict zones
  * Artists as public actors: intervening in war discourse beyond the stage
  * Performative actions on social media and digital platforms
    addressing conflict
  * Theatrical spaces as sites of refuge, memory, and solidarity
  * War photography, video, and other forms of visual witnessing
  * Media narratives of war across film, television, and podcasts
  * Micropolitical forms of resistance in vernacular media cultures
  * Synthetic and AI-generated imagery in war imaginaries

Abstracts (400–500 words), accompanied by a reference list and a short 
author bio (not included in the word count), must be submitted by *10 
March 2026* to: (rivistaconnessioni.remote /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(rivistaconnessioni.remote /at/ gmail.com)>.

A maximum of *ten proposals* will be selected for publication. Full 
articles, with a length of 30,000 to 40,000 characters (excluding notes 
and bibliography), must be submitted via the journal’s platform 
<https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/connessioniremote/index> by *10 May 
2026*.

Expected publication date of the issue: *September 2026*.

*Connessioni Remote is an open access journal and does not charge 
Article Processing Charges (APC) or any other publication fees.*

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