CONFERENCE: Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe

‘Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research,’ a two-day academic conference organised by the project ‘Poetry Off the Page’ at the University of Vienna and the Literaturhaus Wien. It will be a two-day event, taking place on 13-14 June 2025 – free to attend, and remote attendance is possible.

Keynote speakers Shantanu Anand (poet, co-founder of Airplane Poetry Movement, India) and Dr. Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University, UK) and 27 presenters from 18 different countries will demonstrate the diversity of poetry performance and its research, shedding new light on the aesthetics, theory, recent history, and politics of spoken poetry.

The conference also features an online conference gallery, in which additional presenters will discuss their work in poster, video, audio or blog form. The artistic programme on Friday night consists of an open mic, with headliner performances by Shantanu Anand (IN), Liz Breslin (NZ), Raphael D’Abdon (ZA), und Katharina Wenty (AT).

Registration for the conference and the evening programme has now opened; and we would like to cordially invite you to attend, and kindly ask you to forward the registration details to anyone you think might be interested. Please find attached the conference programme. You can find out more about the event, the venues, and the project ‘Poetry Off the Page’ at popconf2025.univie.ac.at.