Read the full Call for Papers HERE in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Submit in English
Submit in Spanish
Submit in Portuguese
Consider submitting to a Hub. Read about the 2024 Hubs HERE.
The 2024 Dance Studies Association meeting in Buenos Aires will be our organization’s first major gathering outside of North America and Europe. This occasion aims to facilitate new routes and roots of local and international exchange and dialogic (un)learning in the field of dance studies. At the same time, it beckons us to engage critically with the violences embedded in practices and narratives of expansion and mapping.
María Eugenia Cadús and Victoria Fortuna (Co-Chairs, Programming and Local Organization Committees)
Program Committee: Alfdaniels Mabingo, Angélique Willkie, Cintia María Oliverio, Irene López Arnaiz, Lucía Matos, Jose Luis Reynoso, María Martha Gigena, Mônica Fagundes Dantas, Rafael Guarato, Marta E. Savigliano, Margarita Tortajada Quiroz, Susan Homar, Olga Lucia Sorzano
2024 Hubs (proposed by Working Groups) include:
NOTE: All conference presenters must be DSA members in-good-standing. You do not need to be a DSA member to submit, but will have to join the organization (and register for the conference) if your abstract is selected.
NOTE: The 2024 conference is an in-person event.
For lodging information at the Intercontinental, Buenos Aires click HERE. Conference registration will be live in early 2024.
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SAVE THE DATE...
ANNUAL (virtual) DSA MEMBERSHIP MEETING
November 9th, 3pm-4pm CT
Join us for annual updates on the state of the organization, with updates from DSA's Executive Committee.
Register HERE
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Call for Standing Committee on Digital Communications & Technology
The Standing Committee for the newly re-visioned Digital Communications and Technology (formerly Website) seeks a new member!
This committee seeks to develop internal structures facilitating accessible involvement in leadership, articulate values for our growing digital spaces/engagements, and vision greater outreach for our organization and discipline - all in line with DSA's broader mission of care and justice-centered community.
The committee work for this next year may include:
- Continuing to develop DSA internal digital drive structures and archive priorities and processes
- Proposing digital content campaigns to help visiblize dance studies/existing work from our membership and field
- Forming community online through community conversations, etc, in addition to or in support of conferences, grad gatherings, and professionalization series
- Help develop Values & Policies
A new committee member might bring experience or interest in the following:
- Social media accessibility (alt text, test for screen reading, etc)
- Proficiency in Google Drive
- New challenges/possibilities we face in digital sphere (AI, VR, and more)
If you are interested, please email in...@dancestudiesassociation.org with a CV and short letter of interest. DSA Secretary Pallavi Sriram will get back to you shortly!
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Call for Editorial Fellow
Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies
Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies is looking for a new Editorial Fellow to join the Editorial board starting January 2024.
Role Description
This position is a part of DSA’s ongoing rebuilding for equity, diversity, and inclusion, ensuring the organizational infrastructure itself is reckoning with the historical relationship between white supremacy, US nonprofit structure, and capitalism more broadly. The Fellow works alongside the Executive Director and DSA Board to support the rapid growth of DSA, amidst the need to examine how growth is sustained and leveraged, and for whom.
Dates: January to December 2024
Honorarium: $1500
Description of Duties of Conversations Editorial Fellow are as follows:
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The Conversations Editorial Fellow will attend all Editorial Board meetings (currently all scheduled to be virtual) and participate in email exchanges.
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The Editorial Fellow will oversee “Chats,” including separate virtual meetings/phone calls with the Editor and/or Chat contributors.
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Chats function like a blog component of our online journal, intended to provide a platform for timely exchanges and discussion prompts, such as written or video recorded roundtables, a curated response to a particular question or issue, and the like. The Fellow will assist in issuing the call for Chat proposals, receive and organize all proposals, and work closely with the Editor and Editorial Board in reviewing proposals, selecting Chat content, and communicating with selected contributors to see the blog post from conception to publication.
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Other duties as assigned and/or appeal to the Fellow’s interests and expertise.
Professionalization:
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Promote decolonial and anti-racist frameworks and methodologies in dance research
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Participate in the selection and curation process of an editorial issue
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Contribute to the peer-review process
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Lead short-term projects, for example, the Chats
Application Materials
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Letter of Interest in the position, indicating relevant professional experience with a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in the field of dance studies.
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CV
Selection Process:
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