On November 12, 2026, at 11:00 AM, Professor Milija Gluhovic from the University of Warwick (UK) will hold a meeting at the Academy with faculty members, PhD Students, and Master’s Students. The meeting will focus on the “Summer School” program, organized under the auspices of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR). The theme of the “Summer School” is: “Staging and Curating Interconnected Histories along the Silk Roads (India, Kazakhstan and Central Asia, Europe) — Empires, Migrations, and Intercultural Dialogues.”

This program is being implemented through a collaboration between the Temirbek Zhurgenov Kazakh National Academy of Arts (Almaty), Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), the University of Warwick, the University of Arts in Belgrade, and Anadolu University (Turkey). The organizers include Milija Gluhovic (University of Warwick), Kabyl Khalykov (Kazakh National Academy of Arts), and Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University), in partnership with the Tselinny Center for Contemporary Culture. The Kasteyev Museum, the Almaty Museum of Arts, and various Almaty-based theaters are expected to participate.

The program is built upon four years of research and collaboration among the participating organizations. It draws on experience gained within the EUTOPIA Connected Community research network focused on the “Silk Roads” (https://warwick.ac.uk/global/europe/eutopia/clcs/silk_roads/), as well as the outcomes of two doctoral summer schools held in Venice in 2022 and 2024. Furthermore, the program aims to discuss the conceptual framework and organizational aspects of a potential IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) conference, which could be hosted by the Kazakh National Academy of Arts in Almaty in 2029.