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Given name: Kasia









Surname: Lech









Email: k.k.lech@uva.nl









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Format: Workshop (3)









Main language: English









Abstract:
Title: Preparing artistic researchers to work within multilingual ecosystems as a major task for artistic research education?

Training artistic researchers to navigate multilingual environments and engage with diverse languages and their unique knowledge systems is a significant challenge in today’s higher education landscape. This challenge is driven by growing institutional interests and pressures from funding bodies to work in such contexts, whether related to internationalization, disability, the marginalization of communities, minority and regional languages, migration, or multilingual education. Additionally, precarious situations—whether due to economic issues or conflict—often compel artists to travel and work in different linguistic settings.
In my book on multilingual dramaturgies, I describe the artistic creation within ecosystems made up of multiple languages as a multi-centered and multidimensional web of varied materials, gaps, and interactions. These webs continuously evolve in response to the performance and the audience's circumstances. Given this reality, how can we prepare artistic researchers to work within these complex webs? How can we enable them to fully embrace and explore diverse knowledge and knowings that exist across different languages, challenging established power structures and tapping into the potential highlighted in this conference’s call?
In this presentation-workshop, I will consider the difficulties and unknowings related to these questions and suggest some practical exercises and approaches to navigate this intricate landscape.











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Short biographies of the presenter(s):
- Kasia Lech is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, where she coordinates an interdisciplinary research master's in Artistic Research. Her work blends scholarly and creative practices, focusing on theatre in multilingual contexts, acting training, and transnational experiences. She has authored several works on multilingual theatre, including the essays “Displacing practitioner: on professional training for multilingual theatre in Europe” (2025) and “Displacing standard language practices in acting training” (2026), as well as the monograph "Multilingual Dramaturgies: Towards New European Theatre" (2024). Additionally, she co-founded Polish Theatre Ireland and serves as Executive Director at TheTheatreTimes.com.










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Requirements
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Additional information:
This will be a workshop with some elements of a paper presentation to contextualise.










Spatial and technical requirements :
An ability to use PowerPoint would be great.










Potential risks or ethical concerns:
None foreseeable.










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