In brief: the next IFTR conference will be held in Shanghai 8-12 July, 2019. Are we ready and willing to go there? Very far away from Norden. Let's think about it. More information will follow: https://www.iftr.org/conference. Also, do take a look at the scenography working group: https://www.iftr.org/working-groups/scenography.

Happy to share some GREAT news (after several years of hard work): August Strindberg and Visual Culture: The Emergence of Optical Modernity in Image, Text, and Theatre is now out from Bloomsbury, and edited by Jonathan Schroeder, Anna Westerståhl Stenport, and Eszter Szalczer.

Viveka is preparing a visual and olfactory presentation about scent as costume and the use of "risky fragrances" for the Critical Costume Conference in Surrey. It will be scented!

We just received a new notification from Nordic Theatre Studies: An issue on "Theatre and Money" has been published. Valuable thoughts and findings concerning scenography might lurk in the contributions, even if the notion itself is not always used.

Ivy Arts Centre, University of Surrey. 12th - 14th September 2018.

We are currently (August 2018) preparing our NORDIK XII conference session entitled "Untitled Spaces: Scenography and Nordic Art History" to be presented at NORDIK XII - October 25-27, 2018, in Copenhagen Denmark.

The North, Norden, the Nordic Region - the labels are changing in tandem with political alliances, cultural connections and imaginings. Scenography (under various labels) have since long formed part of the formation of Nordic spaces, ideas and beliefs. Scenography is connected to ideologies shaping notions of a region as well as to critical...

17-19 July Conference Fashion Costume and Visual Culture 2018 (FCVC2018) University of Zagreb, Croatia.

Happy to share this call for participation from one of our favorite networks, Critical Costume:

We presented our ideas on scenography and art history at the National Art Historians conference, this year held at the University of Gothenburg.