Welcome! We’re so glad you found us. Born out of a goal for international and collaborative research, this group is an online community of early career scholars in performance studies. Our readings reflect the posthumanist goals of the larger Performing Ends network, where we select texts that help us conceptualize the limits of performance, the porous edges of theatricality, and the possibilities of thinking, reading, and collaborating across fields. We meet once a month and alternate between reading group and collaborative writing sessions.

Our Values

Our values are evolving after each session, based on conversations and reflections from our readings. We prioritize slow reading. In response to Max Liboiron’s anticolonial methodologies, our reading group does not extract ideas from our readings but rather wades through ideas.

Eligibility

This group is made up of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and emerging independent scholars. Any thinker is welcome. You can sign up for email announcements at this link: https://forms.gle/BMZTu8xpQS3kyN6C8

Upcoming Sessions

October 2025: Collaborative Writing Session.
Meeting on October 14, 9:00 am (LA) / 12:00 pm (NY) / 6pm (Belgium)

December 2025: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, by Jack Halberstam.

Date tba.

Past Readings and Activities

May 2024: Pollution is Colonialism, by Max Liboiron.

June 2024: Cooling the Tropics, by Hi'ilei Julia Hobart.

July 2024: In the Dust of this Planet: The Horror of Philosophy, by Eugene Thacker.

August 2024: Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas, by Macarena Gómez-Barris.

September 2024: Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book, by Anna Poletti.

April 2025: Collaborative Writing Workshops, facilitated by Eero Laine, Felipe Cervera and Sozita Goudouna.

Septemmber 2025: The Crisis of Narration, by Byung-Chul Han.

Conveners

Troy Coleman (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

Luca Domenico Artuso (University of Antwerp)

Teya Juarez (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

Evan Moritz (University of Toronto)

Jose Nateras (University of California, Los Angeles)

Janine Sun Rogers (University of California, Los Angeles)

Elizabeth McQueen (University of California, Los Angeles)

Theresa Spielmann (University of Antwerp)