Upcoming: EUTERPE York-Coventry Spring School 2025

16–23 May 2025 | University of York

The University of York is delighted to host the EUTERPE York-Coventry Spring School 2025, a week-long event welcoming doctoral candidates, scholars, and creative practitioners from across Europe. Taking place from 16 to 23 May 2025, the Spring School is part of the EUTERPE project (European Theatre Performance Research), a transnational initiative exploring the intersections of literature, performance, translation, gender studies, and political memory.

This year’s programme brings together an exciting range of workshops, seminars, public events, and collaborative activities designed to support early-career researchers and foster international exchange.

Programme Highlights

• Creative workshops with renowned scholars including Dr Juliana Mensah, Prof. Derek Attridge, Prof. Birgit M. Kaiser, and Prof. Anthony Vahni Capildeo, engaging with themes such as power and agency in research, the translocal, multilingual poetics, and feminist theory.

• Public evening events, including a conversation and multilingual poetry reading on Translation as Deep Reading and Creative Practice, and a roundtable titled A Collision with Truth: Palestinian British Voices, held in collaboration with Comma Press.

• Keynote address by Prof. Kimberly Campanello on poetic language, vulnerability, and resistance.

• Hands-on experiences, such as a typesetting and printing workshop with Thin Ice Press, and a career development session tailored for doctoral researchers.

Participants will also visit the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and join evening dinners and networking opportunities designed to cultivate ongoing collaboration and community.

The Spring School represents a unique opportunity for doctoral candidates to exchange ideas across disciplines and national boundaries, deepening their engagement with socially and politically engaged research practices.

For further details, or to register for public events, please contact euterpe-project@york.ac.uk.