Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies

Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies is an annual publication of Dance Studies Association dedicated to current themes and debates in the field of dance studies. Each issue is edited by (a) different guest editor(s) and is published online in an open access format. As such, Conversations is a venue in which scholars, artists, and educators of dance and related disciplines can respond quickly and publicly to current events and pressing issues as identified by members of an international dance studies community.

Conversations has published annual issues from 2007-present.  Prior to 2007, the Society for Dance History Scholars (SDHS) newsletter served as a similar platform for publication.

Conversations is a completely open-access journal.  Read entire issues on the e-platform.

CALL FOR VOLUME 44, "THE CARIBBEAN AS A POLE OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA" 

Deadline: December 22, 2024

The Conversations e-platform also hosts a Talk-Back/Letters from the Editors section and a quick response Chat.  

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2024 Issue (press release announcement)

Ethics, Risk, and Safety in the Field
edited by Juan Sebastián Gómez-García and Polina Timina

Research ethics, when they came into academic being, were modeled mostly after the experiences of white men based at Western European and North American institutions. These ethical devices also absorbed the assumptions of such a position: that the researcher is in a position of power, that the community must be protected foremostly through anonymity. Neither this thinking nor these practices hold up. For one, as we strive to diversify academia and more space is given to researchers outside of the “West,” to womxn and queer researchers, people of color, people with varied abilities, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, none of us experience “the field” as the white cis straight expert male researcher did and thus none of us encounter risk the way patriarchal colonialism has identified it and boxed it.

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PHOTO: View of Palestine from a demolished home in the West Bank by Annie Wren, appearing in essay “Community Care in Palestine: When Grief and Politics Meet in the Body”

Chats Vol. 3: PoP Moves: Popular and Social Dance in Higher Education in Australasia now live!