Conferences

In cooperation with Cirque Bouffon, an international conference is held every two years in Münster. The conference’s focus is the academic exchange of information among international circus scholars.

Circus | Studies realized one of the first international conferences on circus research, Semiotics of the Circus (2015), which included 15 international speakers and 75 international participants from 16 different nations. In 2017, we organized and realized UpSideDown - Circus and Space (2017), which included 25 international speakers and 100 international participants from 13 different nations. The conferences took place in a circus tent and included circus performances, thus bringing together theory and praxis quite literally.