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PSi Digest 29 (February 2008) 1. CfP: 'Electronic Visualisation and the Arts' - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, July 22-25 2008, British Computer Society, London, UK (due Jan 31) 2. CfP: 'Feminist Pedagogy and Aesthetics Workshop' - Women and Theatre Program, ATHE, July 31-Aug 3, Denver, Colorado, US (due Jan 31) 3. CfP: 'Emerging Scholars Panel' - Association for Asian Performance, July 30 2008, Denver, Colorado (due Feb 1) 4. CfP: 'Irish Theatre: Contexts for Performance' - Irish Society for Theatre Research, April 4-5 2008, University College Dublin, (due Feb 2) 5. CfP: 'Emerging Scholars Panel: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement?' - Performance Studies Focus Group, ATHE, July 31-Aug 3 2008, Denver, Colorado, US (due Feb 15) 6. CfP: 'Conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance' - Sept 26-28 2008, U of California, Berkeley, US (due Feb 15) 7. Cf Contributions: '1968/2008' - Art/Research/Education/Activism (AREA) Chicago, US (due Feb 15) 8. CfP: 'Embodiment and Identity; - SWIPUK Conference, May 22-23 2008, Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, U of Hull (due Feb 18) 9. CfP: 'Place, Writing and Voice' - Sept 5-6 2008, U of Plymouth, UK (due Feb 28) 10. CfP: 'Culture and Citizenship' - CRESC Annual Conference, Sept 3-5 2008, St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK (due Feb 29) 11. CfP: 'Cultures in Transit' - International Institute for Transcultural and Diasporic Studies, July 18-21 2008, Liverpool Hope U, UK (due Feb 29) 12. Cf Contributions: 'Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance' - June 26-28 2008, U of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK (due Feb 29) 13. CfP: 'Turangawaewae - A Sense of Place' - Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Association, June 30-July 3 2008, U of Otago, Dunedin, NZ (due March 1) 14. Cf Submissions: 'Religion and Popular Culture in Canada' - Journal of Religion Popular Culture (due March 1) 15. CfP: 'Unsettling Theatre: Migration, Map, Memory' - American Society for Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Association, Nov 5-9 2008, Boston, US (due March 2) 16. Cf Contributions: 'Race and Performance in America' - e-mesférica, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (due March 14) 17. CfP: 'Performing Islam/Muslim Realities' - Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance, (due March 15) 18. CfP: 'Southeast Asian Arts in Transnational Perspective' - South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom Conference, June 20-22 2008, John Moores U, Liverpool, UK (due March 31) 19. Cf Sessions: 'Feminist Research Methods' - Feb 4-6 2009, Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm U, Sweden (due April 1) 20. CfP: 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow' - Performing the World Conference, Oct 2-5 2008 New York, US (due April 1) 21. CfP: 'Touch and Sound' - SCAN journal (due April 1) 22. CfP: 'Queer in Europe: A 3-Day International Research Symposium' - Sept 13-15 2008, U of Exeter, UK (due May 31) 23. Cf Contributions: 'New Communities of Knowledge and Practice' - DRHA Conference, Sept 14-17 2008, Cambridge, UK (no due date) 24. CfP: 'Paradigm, Praxis, Field' - Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 2007 (no due date) 25. CfP: 'Jewish Theatre and Cinema' - Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 2-6, 2009 (no due date) 26. Orlan at Goldsmiths, Feb 5 2008, UK 27. Reflect on This Symposium, Feb 6 2008, York St John U, UK 28. Symposium on Contemporary Arabic Drama, Feb 9 2008, U of Hull, UK 29. Imagined Futures Symposium, Feb 10 2008, Camden Arts Centre, UK 30. Asian and African Theatre in Higher Education, Feb 13 2008, U of Reading, UK 31. Are We American? Feb 13-15 2008, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montreal, Canada 32. Sarah Kane: Reassessments, Feb 16 2008, U of Cambridge, UK 33. Aesopic Voices: Reframing Truth in Twentieth-century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables International Conference, Feb 21-23 2008, Melbourne, Australia 34. NoPassport Conference Dreaming the Americas/The Body Politic in Performance, Feb 22 2008, Graduate Center the City U of New York, US 35. Goat Island: Lastness, Raiding the Archive, and Pedagogical Practices in Performance: A Symposium, Feb 29-March 2 2008, Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster, UK 36. The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, March 8-9 2008, Trinity College, Oxford, UK 37. Researching Applied Drama, Theatre and Performance, April 1-5 2008, Exeter U, UK 38. Performing Heritage Conference, April 3-5 2008, U of Manchester 39. Theatre: Crossroads of the Humanities, April 10-12 2008, Northwestern U, US 40. Futuresonic Conference: The Social Technologies Summit, May 1-2, Manchester, UK Series 51. Viral Duets Books Journals DVDs Situations Vacant (Items 94-105) 94. Collections' Director, Centre for Performance Research, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, U of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK 95. Various positions, U of Trinidad 96. Visiting Assistant Professor, U of Georgia, US 97. Visiting Assistant Professor in Performance Studies, San Jose State U?, US 98. Assistant Professor of Theatre - Directing and Acting, U of Ottawa, Canada 99. Assistant or Associate Professor of Dance, Hunter College of the City U of New York, US 100. Assistant Professor of Theatre History/Theory, U of Georgia, US 101. Assistant Professor of Dance History, U of Texas, Austin, US 102. Lecturer in Drama & Theatre Studies, U of Kent, UK 103. Three posts (Lecturer in Drama, Senior Lecturer or Professor in Drama, and Lecturer in Modern Drama in English and Playwriting), Royal Holloway, UK 104. Claire Trevor Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor in either Dance, Drama, Music, or Studio Art, U of California, Irvine, US 105. Fellowships at the Institute for Historical Studies at U of Texas, Austin, US. Postgraduate Opportunities (Items 106-118) 106. MA in Contemporary Arts Research, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster U, UK 107. MA in Professional Contemporary Practice, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster U, UK 108. MA South Asian Theatre, U of Lincoln, UK 109. MA Theatre and Consciousness, U of Lincoln, UK 110. MA Theatre Collectives, Chichester U, UK 111. MA and PhD Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, U of Aberystwyth, UK 112. MA and PhD in the Department of Theatre and Film, U of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 113. MFA and PhD Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships, Southern Illinois?U, Carbondale, US 114. AHRC funded PhD in Audiences, Screen Dance and Kinesthetic Empathy, U of Manchester and York St John U, Glasgow, UK 115. CfP: 'Authenticity? Reality, Reliability and Access in Performance and Media' - Journeys Across Media (JAM), April 11 2008, U of Reading (due Feb 1) 116. CfP: Grad Shakespeare Conference, June 19-21 2008, Stratford-on-Avon, UK 117. Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship, U of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 118. Postdoctoral Fellowship at Institute of American-American Affairs and the Program in Africana Studies, New York U, US 119. Forced Entertainment Workshop for Practitioners, Feb 23, West Yorkshire, UK 120. Reach for the Snooze Button, Workshop with Dead Good Guides, Feb 23-24, Centre for Performance Research, UK 121. The Embodied Voice: Exploring the Psyche-Soma Connection Workshop, Feb 29, London, UK 122. British Grotowski project Easter laboratory, April 14-19, U of Kent, UK 123. Port Performance Workshop, April 21-May 6 2008, Tel Aviv, Israel 124. Michael Chekov Studio London, Course Programme 2008-2009, UK 125. Cf Proposals: Student Puppet Theatre Festival, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK 126. Cf Proposals: 'Mis-guided' Commissions for the Belluard Bollwerk International Festival June-July 2008, Fribourg, Switzerland 128. Call for donations of materials to the Library of Performing Rights
CALLS FOR PAPERS (CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS) 1. CfP: 'Electronic Visualisation and the Arts' - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, July 22-25 2008, British Computer Society, London, UK (due Jan 31) ***ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS*** http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/ *Visualising:* CALL FOR PAPERS EVA London 2008 will be co-sponsored by the *Computer Arts Society*, a Special Interest Group of the British Computer Society. CAS will celebrate its 40th Anniversary in 2008 and will join with EVA in showcasing how digital technology has revolutionised the arts and interactive media. OFFERS OF PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS by 31 January 2008 We invite offers of papers, which should be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London website, http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/. For proposals we require only a summary of the paper on not more than one page. Papers may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for the arts and culture, broadly interpreted, including technology, use and users, creative, visual and performing arts and music, strategy, organisational implications and policy. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited. They will be published as hard copy and online. EVA LONDON 2008 will include: Workshops http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feminist Pedagogy and Aesthetics Workgroup CFP Deadline extended to January 31st. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the workgroup. Women and Theatre Program - Call for Papers The workgroups benefit from work that is grounded in both theory and concrete examples of personal practice/ experience, as well as participants that represent a wide range of positions in the world of pedagogy and aesthetics, from new graduate students to tenured professors to pure practitioners.The groups may focus on, but are certainly not limited to, the ideas/views below: Workgroup One: Feminist Pedagogy and Practice Workgroup Two: Feminist Aesthetics and Practice * What is a feminist form? Does feminist content generate or require a feminist form? Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, concerns, or just want to bounce ideas around. Regards, 3. CfP: 'Emerging Scholars Panel' - Association for Asian Performance, July 30 2008, Denver, Colorado (due Feb 1) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2008?Winners will be notified by April 2, 2008 A separate cover sheet detailing the author's contact information- address, phone number, and email address (for both academic year and summer holiday) must accompany each submission. The author's name should not appear on the text proper. AAP is proud to sponsor this adjudicated panel. Not only is it a chance for students and emerging scholars to get exposure and recognition for their work, but it also provides an opportunity to meet and make contacts with others who are interested in similar fields of research. Please direct any inquiries regarding the emerging scholars panel to Dr. Foley. To find out about the benefits of becoming an AAP member, please check out our website at http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline? 4. CfP: 'Irish Theatre: Contexts for Performance' - Irish Society for Theatre Research, April 4-5 2008, University College Dublin, (due Feb 2) Irish Society for Theatre Research www.qub.ac.uk/istr Symposium 2008: 'Irish Theatre: Contexts for Performance' Second Call for Panel Papers and Working Group submissions Venue: U College Dublin, Blackrock Campus, Carysfort Avenue, Friday 4th April and Saturday 5th April, 2008 Submission of Abstracts: 2 February Panel Paper Submissions: Please forward all Panel Paper Submissions and any general enquires to: eamonn.jordan@ucd.ie. Currently we have panels covering the following topics: · Postmodernism & Postdramatic Theatre Working Groups Submissions: Cultural Identities: seeks papers exploring issues of Irish theatre and performance that frame the construction and categorization of cultural identities such as: gender, sexuality, race, nation, ethnicity. Performances that are a part of institutional culture as well as alternate performance cultures are included, and projects that study popular as well as elite cultural performances will be welcomed. Contact: Brian Singleton: bsnglton@tcd.ie Theatre History and Historiography: seeks papers pertaining to any aspect of research into the history of theatre as a practice and as an institution in Ireland or the history of Irish theatre in its international contexts. This working group is also concerned with investigating the methodologies of theatre history and/or the theoretical and historical assumptions that underpin these. Contact: Tom Maguire: tj.maguire@ulster.ac.uk Textual Practices: seeks papers which engage with the relationship between textuality and performance, specifically in terms of the transformation of the play on the page into the play on stage. Of particular interest are papers that examine the performance possibilities implied by a script, score and other textual or documentary sources. Contact: Eamonn Jordan: eamonn.jordan@ucd.ie Performance Studies: seeks papers which explore ways to analyse performance in its multiplicity of elements and meanings. Participation is encouraged from practitioners, critics and academics in the disciplines of theatre and drama, digital technology, and performance art. Contact: Bernadette Sweeney: B.Sweeney@ucc.ie 5. CfP: 'Emerging Scholars Panel: Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement' - Performance Studies Focus Group, ATHE, July 31-Aug 3 2008, Denver, Colorado, US (due Feb 15) The Performance Studies Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars' Panel. The theme of the conference is Difficult Dialogues: Theatre and the Art of Engagement, and it takes place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Denver, Colorado from 31 July to 3 August 2008. The PSFG Emerging Scholars' Panel represents an opportunity for researchers to present their work at a major international conference for the first time. It offers a supportive and stimulating environment for new scholarship. Performance Studies locates itself at the boundaries of scholarly and artistic practice. It embraces aesthetic and academic interdisciplinarity, and its challenges and difficulties. ? Performance? meanwhile acts as a ready and inclusive critical model for theorising cultural and social action. Despite this inclusivity, are there dialogues which Performance Studies might currently be avoiding? Submissions to the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel might engage this disciplinary question, or a range of others around the conference theme. Papers across performance modes and historical periods are welcomed. Topics might include: - contested boundaries between performance, theatre and other artforms As Denver will play host at the end of August 2008 to the Democratic National Convention, submissions might take the opportunity to consider the implication of performance in the political process. Papers for the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel should be 8-10 pages in length (double-spaced). The deadline for submission is Friday 15 February 2008. Please send completed papers, with institutional affiliation and contact information, to Louise Owen at l.owen@qmul.ac.uk. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of March 2008. ATHE PSFG will provide successful applicants with complimentary registration to the ATHE PSFG Pre-Conference. Please contact Louise Owen with any other questions regarding the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel at the email address above. 6. CfP: 'Conference on African and Afro-Caribbean Performance' - Sept 26-28 2008, U of California, Berkeley, US (due Feb 15) Keynote speakers: Gerard Aching, Pauline Malefane, Tejumola Olaniyan As studies of African and Afro-Caribbean performance have acquired a wider relevance during the last decade, it is now time to examine the diverse critical approaches currently being practiced within these fields. How are African and Afro-Caribbean cultures being constructed, analyzed, and re-imagined by recent discussions about theatricality, transnationalism, diaspora, translation, Circum-Atlantic exchanges, or cyberspaces? (Other topics are also welcomed). We seek papers that emphasize either Africa, the Caribbean, or the connections between both. Please send a one-page long abstract no later than February 15, 2008 to Leo Cabranes-Grant, Associate Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, U of California, Santa Barbara, 93106-7060; email:cabranes@theaterdance.ucsb.edu. Presented by UC Berkeley's Dept. of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Co-sponsors include UCB's Center for African Studies, the Consortium for the Arts, the Dept. of Music, and the Pacific Film Archive, as well as two UC-wide Multi-campus Research Groups in African Studies and International Performance. 7. Cf Contributions: '1968/2008' - Art/Research/Education/Activism (AREA) Chicago, US (due Feb 15) Dear Organizers of Culture and Activities, If you are organizing, participating in, fomenting or critiquing events in the coming year that are inspired by 1968 or relate in some way to its legacies, AREA Chicago wants to know about it. AREA's fall 2008 issue is on the theme of 1968/2008. We want to intervene critically in the discourse of 1968: to excavate forgotten histories, but also interrogate intergenerationality and the inheritance of political strategy, frameworks and imagination. To get a sense of where we might be going with this, visit the AREA 68 blog at: http://1968.areachicago.org/ "1968/2008 will be a hybrid cultural project gradually unfolding for one year on the occasion of 40 years passing since the "signpost" year of international political turmoil, social upheavel nd the dramatic transformation of what we know as the left. Sponsored by the local research and culture publication AREA Chicago in order to explore the legacy of the late 1960s/early 1970s on contemporary cultural and political organizations in their city, the project also have other nodes outside of Chicago. It will take place in numerous places including events, publications, reading groups and a website. This will be a time for "critical commemoration" examining the legacy of the late 1960s on contemporary social movements, particularly in the United States. This project will attempt to engage with social movement historians, liberals who went to college in the 1960s, old leftists that are still alive, those who organize and those who are organized, frothing and non-frothing leftists, self-identified revolutionaries, oral historians, the educators/parents/mentors of radical activists, new leftists who rejected the old left, new leftists who embraced the old left, baby boomers who are disappointed in today's youth, youth who blame the baby boomers for everything, people who thought there was going to be a revolution, youngsters who want to learn from people with experiences, politicians who used to hate politicians, the children of liberal baby boomers, the children of militants, the artists who want to revisit counterculture, the people who made the 1960s counterculture cooler than the political ideas of the times, CEOs who were in the SDS, new Black Panthers and new SDSers, people who like what they know about the 1960s but didn't live in them, people who were born in 1968, people who lost loved ones in political violence in the 1960s/70s, people who want to know where they are going after they know where they are from." As always, AREA's focus will be Chicago, but we'd like to create a network of people in other places working on projects in a similar spirit. The AREA 68 blog will serve as a clearinghouse to circulate announcements, reflections, links, debates, and documentation. Based on proposals sent to AREA at areachicago@gmail.com by Feb. 15, we will invite a limited number of participants to co-author the blog. Others will be invited to send us links and other content for posting. Other forms of participation are possible: if you have something else in mind, please let us know. If you will be in Chicago in 2008, please let us know that too. Proposals should be no more than 300 words including brief bio and description of projects(s). They can include documentation (image files, etc.) but the proposal should be comprehensible on its own. Rebecca Zorach and Daniel Tucker for AREA Chicago AREA Chicago Art/Research/Education/Activism is a publication and event series dedicated to researching, supporting and networking local social, political and cultural movements. For more information visit http://www.areachicago.org/ 8. CfP: 'Embodiment and Identity; - SWIPUK Conference, May 22-23 2008, Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, U of Hull (due Feb 18) CALL FOR PAPERS: EMBODIMENT AND IDENTITY SWIPUK conference hosted by the Centre for Research into Embodied?Subjectivity, Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Hull , May 22-23 2008 This conference aims to explore the role the body plays in?constituting aspects of our individual and social identity. The claim?that biology fixes identity has been hotly contested in recent?decades, but its apparent abandonment has led to intense theoretical?debate over the role of the body in constituting both individual?subjectivity and categories of social identity. We will be focusing?particularly on gendered, cultural and racial identity, disability and identity, and identities reached by degrees of bodily ?modification. In?each case attention will be paid to the role of social others in?constituting the meaning and recognition bestowed on bodily?physiognomies. The common assumption that such categories of identity?are required for social participation, political agency and? constructions of subjectivity, will be subjected to critical scrutiny.? Papers are welcome on any aspect of embodiment and/or identity, (including; 'raced' identities, 'cultured' bodies, diasporic and?transcultural identity, hybridity, disability and the body,?trans-sexuality, bodily integrity, body dysmorphia, identity and?recognition, materiality and the body, imaginary bodies). CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Dr. Lois McNay , Somerville College, Oxford http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/admissions/fellows/mcnayl/? Dr Jakie Leach Scully Newcastle University http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/people/profile/jackie.scully? Dr. Margrit Shildrick, Queens University, Belfast http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofSociologySocialPolicySocialWork/Staff/AcademicStaff/MargritShildrick/ Dr.Simone Giordano Manchester University http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/simona_giordano/default.htm Abstracts should be sent to Stella Gonzalez Arnal s.gonzalez-arnal@hull.ac.uk by 18 February 2008. Contributors will be informed if their abstracts are accepted by 3 March 2008. If you wish to discuss possible proposals or other aspects of the?conference you can also contact other members of the organizing?committee: Gill Jagger, G.Jagger@hull.ac.uk 9. CfP: 'Place, Writing and Voice' - Sept 5-6 2008, U of Plymouth, UK (due Feb 28) We are seeking proposals for papers for a forthcoming conference, Place, Writing and Voice, and will especially welcome papers involving oral history. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. CALL FOR PAPERS: 5-6 September 2008, U of Plymouth This conference will explore the experience of the local through consideration of written and oral narratives, in forms including but by no means limited to poetry, novels, and oral history interviews. One of the aims is to bring together papers which engage with different kinds of stories about place, especially literary and/or oral, and thereby to consider relations between the written and spoken word. Along with written texts, we hope to engage with work concerning both oral traditions and oral history, observing the differences between them while allowing for connections. The conference will seek to engage with a diversity of approaches, as represented by Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy, Benedict Anderson's account of "print-nationalism" in contrast to "speech-localities", and Alessandro Portelli's 'What Makes Oral History Different?' Orality and locality may be considered in relation to nationalism, globalisation, and technological change. We are also keen to explore and critique how some ecocriticism places value on the local and oral. Oral culture is local in so far as it only reaches those within earshot, and is associated with pre-industrial traditions (for example folktales and ballads). One problem with this for environmentalism may be that ecological understanding has to encompass the inter-connectedness of the global ecosystem-it must leap out of the local. We welcome papers concerning written and/or oral narratives about any locality, while a focus on South West Britain will be one of its distinctive features. Possible topics include: Confirmed speakers include Nick Groom, Tim Fulford, Richard Kerridge Please send proposals of 200-250 words (for papers of 20 minutes) to Shelley Trower at S.J.Trower@exeter.ac.uk and Dafydd Moore at D.R.Moore@plymouth.ac.uk by 28 February 2008. Funded by the Cornwall Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) 10. CfP: 'Culture and Citizenship' - CRESC Annual Conference, Sept 3-5 2008, St Hugh's College, Oxford, UK (due Feb 29) CRESC Annual Conference Call for Papers: Culture and Citizenship Citizenship and Culture represent two of the most central concepts in contemporary social thought and, over the last decade, the relationships between them have been highly contested. Debates on citizenship have shifted from a focus on democracy, political rights and responsibilities and questions of belonging to a concern with culture, both formally and informally inscribed. The focus of citizenship historically tended more toward universalistic issues, with the realm of culture assigned to the particular, and to questions of difference and meaning. The interconnections between these approaches have become of growing academic interest on the one hand, as well as being of crucial significance in the political realm on the other. Thus claims for citizenship rights are increasingly required to consider the more culturally defined questions of identity, gender, sexuality, race, that are typically the concern of the new social and political movements. At the same time the issues of emancipation, responsibility and freedom remain key questions for debates concerning citizenship and culture. This conference seeks to explore the inter-relationships between citizenship and culture and their contemporary social, cultural and political significance in a number of different contexts. The themes proposed for the conference are as follows: *Cultural Diversity/After Multiculturalism Keynote speakers to date include: Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam), Engin Isin (Open University), Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester, Ghassan Hage (University of Melbourne), Mary Poovey (New York University), Nick Stevenson (University of Nottingham) Conference organising committee: Tony Bennett (Open University), Francis Dodsworth (Open University), Patrick Joyce (University of Manchester), Helen Rees Leahy (University of Manchester), Sophie Watson (Open University) Please submit either (a) 300 word abstracts for individual papers, or (b) proposals for panels including 3 papers by the end of February 2008. Proposal Forms are available online and should be sent to: CRESC Conference Administration 11. CfP: 'Cultures in Transit' - International Institute for Transcultural and Diasporic Studies, July 18-21 2008, Liverpool Hope U, UK (due Feb 29) CALL FOR PAPERS Liverpool The inaugural conference of the International Institute for Transcultural and Diasporic Studies will take place in Liverpool, Europe*s Capital of Culture, in 2008. Future conferences will alternate between Liverpool Hope University and Jean Moulin University, Lyon. While focussed primarily on the arts, humanities and social sciences, the programme will be transdisciplinary and open to all those interested in transcultural and transdisciplinary discussion, particularly but not exclusively in fields such as literary and cultural studies, cultural anthropology and history, cinema studies, music studies, sociology and sociolinguistics. We welcome proposals for papers which address the following questions: Why have diasporas happened? What happens to social and cultural practices (textual, visual, linguistic, musical) when they are displaced (examples might include francophone cultures in America, and musical cultures in the Caribbean)? What happens to local cultures when external social and culturalpractices confront them? What happens to cultures which have experienced extensive emigration? Related questions which focus on the central themes of historical processes of hybridisation/metissage, intertextuality and cultural fusion brought about by migrations of people, ideas and practices, the impact of globalization on the production, consumption, diffusion and reception of cultures and cultural practices, pre-modern nomadism and post-modern nomadologies. We welcome proposals which approach these themes either from the perspective of specific communities or that of specific experiences. Proposals for papers in approximately 150 words should be submitted by 29th February, 2008. Those submitting proposals will be notified of the outcome of their submission in early March 2008. Final versions of papers which should be of 6,000 words should be submitted by 15th June, 2008. Papers should be in English and will be distributed in advance of the sessions in order to promote lively and engaged discussion at the conference. Please send outline paper proposals to Dr Terry Phillips at phillim@hope.ac.uk or at Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, L16 9JD, United Kingdom. PUBLICATIONS 12. Cf Contributions: 'Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance' - June 26-28 2008, U of Glamorgan, Cardiff, UK (due Feb 29) FIRST CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance An interdisciplinary and international conference Contributions are invited to an international conference which focuses on various aspects of adaptation into film, performance, television, radio and other media. Adaptation - the reworking of a verbal text or another artefact for a new audience in a different genre or media - is as old a practice as cultural production itself, yet its systematic study - adaptation studies - is only a recently emerging discipline. The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries with its strengths in drama, music, media and communication and having strong links with the creative writing unit of the university is the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and is now hosting a major international and interdisciplinary conference that will shape the formation of this neglected field of research. The event is open to scholars from as diverse, yet closely interconnected areas as the study of film, theatre, opera,music, dance, television, radio, games and graphic narratives. Whereas some of the most recent research in the field focused on the connections between adaptation and appropriation, this conference also addresses analogies and differences between adaptation and translation processes. The conference embraces a plethora of perspectives characteristic of the encompassed disciplines and facilitates a negotiation between these stances, whether they emphasise the creative or the interpretive aspect of translation and adaptation. Both the concepts and independent cases of adaptation and translation will receive attention. The event will provide room for the investigation of transformative strategies both against the respective cultural and historical settings and generic or media-based criteria. The conference therefore offers a range of platforms to participants, including plenaries, papers, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, screenings and performances so as to initiate dialogue between theoretical and more practice-based approaches to adaptation and translation. Provisional keynote speakers include: The conference is organised by Professor Richard Hand (University of Glamorgan), Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol)and Dr Márta Minier (University of Glamorgan). Please send enquiries, abstracts for papers (max. 250 words) and proposals for masterclasses/workshops, book stalls, screenings, performances or any other platforms of presentation to afp2008@hotmail.co.uk by Friday 29 February 2008. To inspect the inaugural issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance please visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421 13. CfP: 'Turangawaewae - A Sense of Place' - Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Association, June 30-July 3 2008, U of Otago, Dunedin, NZ (due March 1) 2008 ADSA Conference Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) 2008 Annual Conference Hosted by the Theatre Studies Programme, Division of Humanities, University of Otago The conference convenors invite submissions of papers related to all forms of the performing arts. Turangawaewae: A Sense of Place Globalisation, postcolonialism, virtuality, phenomenology, site-specificity, trembling borders, the over-extending gesture, the shifting notions of the relationship between selfhood, identity and home and expanding notions of performance that incorporate the everyday all contribute to increasingly elusive and complex ideas of place. We invite proposals for contributions or abstracts for papers, practical workshops or panels responding to the following provocations and/or related themes: site-specificity, "What country, friends, is this?", digital place. propaganda as place, Terra Nullius, settler colonies, settler incursions, virtual place, virtual space, metropolitan/provincial, Downunder, neo-colonialism, globalsim, globalisation, glocalisation, memory as a place, margin/centre, cultural geography, non-static conceptions of place, i nga wa o mua - the past is in front of us, framing place, ''place'' in frames, mimetic space, diegetic space, third space, interstitial or 'beyond' space, contact zones, thresholds, signs of place, space as semiotic system, market places, homeland, "Outside it is death", Mabo case physical journeys, interior journeys, hearts of darkness, turangawaewae - one's standing place, The Commonwealth, identities of places as unfixed, terrain, seashore. The 2008 ADSA conference website is online at http://www.otago.ac.nz/theatrestudies/conference/index.html also accessible via ADSA's website under 'Conferences' http://www.adsa.edu.au <http://www.adsa.edu.au/> Do you have a book you'd like to launch at the conference? If you do, please email the conference organiser, Jan Farris , so that she can let the conference convenors know. 14. Cf Submissions: 'Religion and Popular Culture in Canada' - Journal of Religion Popular Culture (due March 1) Call for Submissions: Religion and Popular Culture in Canada While academic studies of the interrelations and interactions of religion and popular culture have burgeoned in the past decade, relatively little scholarly analysis of religion and popular culture in the national contexts other than the United States and the United Kingdom has been undertaken. In order to partially address this underdeveloped field of inquiry, the Journal of Religion Popular Culture is seeking papers for a supplementary issue on the theme of "Religion and Popular Culture in Canada" to be published in 2008. Manuscripts which investigate the relation of religion and religious expression to any area of contemporary popular culture in Canada are welcome, e.g., - Canadian popular music Potential contributors should consider this list as representative, not exhaustive. All submissions will be refereed. Manuscripts must follow the JRPC's Submission Guidelines (http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/submissions.html), and must be sent electronically to Dr. Chris Klassen (cklassen@wlu.ca), the Guest Editor for the volume. Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2008. 15. CfP: 'Unsettling Theatre: Migration, Map, Memory' - American Society for Theatre Research and the Theatre Library Association, Nov 5-9 2008, Boston, US (due March 2) Call for Proposals UNSETTLING THEATRE: MIGRATION, MAP, MEMORY While migration is a recent watchword of "globalization," it has been the signature of modernity from the moment that "Europe" began to travel in search of new trade routes, markets, and goods, culminating in the wholesale movement of peoples in the global history of slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. As we know, the circulation, violent displacement, transfer, and travel of peoples has been fundamental to the formation of a range of powerful geopolitical imaginaries: the Mediterranean world, the Circum-Atlantic, the Pacific Rim, and the vast range of routes, pathways, and passages that have connected-or dislocated-peoples and places across the globe. Recent decades have witnessed the massive movement of postcolonials to the former centers of imperial power in Europe and the US; the confrontation of the global south and north at key points of contact and crossing, such as the Strait of Gibraltar or the US/Mexico border; and the massive movements of peoples in contexts of war, political repression, and genocide-all of which challenge "settled" understandings of nation, territory, and belonging. Thus while globalization has been characterized by the rapid flow of goods, capital, and data across increasingly fluid borders of nations, technology, and of language, bodies move with different logic, speed, and consequence. As a field that closely analyzes embodied practice, studies of theatre, dance, and performance may specially engage the dynamics of migration and social movement, historically and in our present times. The 2008 ASTR conference aims to "un-settle" theatre from its habitual association with place (firmly situated in nations, states, empires, and other locales) by considering the genealogies and mappings of theatre produced through the migration and movement of peoples. We invite the membership to interpret this call expansively; areas of possible focus, in addition to those glossed above, include: Among the disciplinary questions we may consider are whether histories of performance-in-migration offer a critique of the nation-state and its protagonism in the narration of theatre and performance histories, and how histories of theatre migration suggest alternate genealogies, geographies, and historiographic paradigms that extend our approaches to theatre history and performance theory. Participation Guidelines Plenary Papers Seminars and Working Groups All submissions must be received by 2 March 2008 and should be sent as e-mail attachments, in MS Word, to: astr2008@gmail.com. Inquiries are welcome; please contact Jill Lane (jill.lane@nyu.edu). 16. Cf Contributions: 'Race and Performance in America' - e-mesférica, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (due March 14) Call for contributions * e-misférica 5.2 * Race and Performance in the Americas e-misférica, the biannual, peer-reviewed, online journal of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, invites submissions for its upcoming issue, which will focus on race in the Americas, exploring the making, maintenance, and change of racial formations through performance. This issue, edited by Jill Lane, aims to explore comparative racial formations in the Americas through performance. How has performance helped to shape the specific ways in which race organizes social relations in specific social and historical contexts? When and how have racial formations been articulated or contested forcefully through the performing body? What racial "contact zones," to extend Mary Louise Pratt's evocative formulation, have been created by the contact, overlap, or interpenetration of racial formations in border zones and in the histories of migration, displacement and movement throughout the Americas? Most national discourse in the Americas has relied on an implicit or explicit relation to race, through celebrations, negations, or disavowals of mestizaje, indigenismo, racial democracy, and so on; how and when has performance crucially intervened in these discourses? How has performance-from carnival and theatre to activism and the culture industries-served to pose and practice alternative or critical ways of living the realities of race? Pertinent themes include: e-misférica includes essays and multimedia presentations by artists, activists, and intellectuals, as well as reviews of books, performances, and films. This issue will be published in November 2008. We welcome contributions in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. All essays are peer reviewed, and should be 5000-7000 words. Reviews are 750 words. For examples of multimedia presentations, see Artist Presentations and e-galleries in http://hemisphericinstitute.org/journal. Please submit completed essays by April 2, 2008 to e-misférica at hemi.ejournal@nyu.edu. Please include "e-misférica 5.2" in the subject heading. To submit multimedia presentations and reviews, please contact the editors with proposals by March 14, 2008. All advance queries are most welcome; contact Jill Lane, editor, at jill.lane@nyu.edu 17. CfP: 'Performing Islam/Muslim Realities' - Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance, (due March 15) Call for Papers Performing Islam/Muslim Realities Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: In addition to the above, the BJTP also seeks book and performance reviews broadly related to the issue topic. Deadline for submission is March 15, 2008. Material should be submitted in electronic format only to Carolyn Roark (Carolyn_Roark@baylor.edu). Inquiries regarding submission may be directed to the editors, and additional information, including submission guidelines and a style sheet, may be found on the journal's website (http://www.baylor.edu/bjtp/). BJTP is peer-reviewed and adheres to a blind submission policy. It is indexed by the MLA International Bibliography and EBSCO. Carolyn D. Roark, PhD 18. CfP: 'Southeast Asian Arts in Transnational Perspective' - South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom Conference, June 20-22 2008, John Moores U, Liverpool, UK (due March 31) Southeast Asian Arts in Transnational Perspective Convenors: Dr Matthew Isaac Cohen and Dr Laura Noszlopy A panel at the 24th Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom conference, John Moores University, Liverpool, 20-22 June 2008 Studies of the performing arts and visual cultures of Southeast Asia have until recently emphasized local origins and significance over international links and cross-cultural flows. This academic focus is at odds with the region's long history of intercultural exchange, and the interest of many Southeast Asian arts workers in situating their practice in relation to extra-local configurations. This panel examines the arts of Southeast Asia and their dynamics of movement and exchange across national boundaries, with an emphasis on the period of WWII to the present. Possible topics include: cultural diplomacy, intercultural collaboration, local artistic practice in relation to the global arts market, performance and art for tourism, diasporic arts, the international circulation of mediated performance (via the internet, VCD etc), ASEAN art projects and teaching Southeast Asian arts outside the region. Traditional academic presentations as well as video lectures, workshops and lo-tech solo performances are welcome. Please send abstracts of 250 words to Matthew.Cohen@rhul.ac.uk and Noszlopy@hotmail.com before 31 March 2008. For further information please see http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/aseasuk or contact the panel convenors. UK-based postgraduate students presenting papers are eligible to apply for travel and accommodation subsidy. 19. Cf Sessions: 'Feminist Research Methods' - Feb 4-6 2009, Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm U, Sweden (due April 1) Feminist Research Methods: An international conference Date: 4-6 February 2009 The Centre for Gender Studies at Stockholm University welcomes feminist researchers to an international conference on research methods and methodological issues and dilemmas. Doing feminist research The conference is open to researchers in all disciplines, inter-disciplines and directions of research. Call for sessions All interested participants are welcome to suggest sessions, workshops and other types of events. Dead-line for suggestions of events within the conference is April 1. Deadline for papers, programme, details of registration, and practical information will be announced on the web site in April. Information 20. CfP: 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow' - Performing the World Conference, Oct 2-5 2008 New York, US (due April 1) Performing the World '08 Announcement and Call for Proposals A New Location, A New Kind of Conference For the first time, the All Stars Project, an organization recognized for its highly successful performance-based outside-of-school developmental programs for young people and its Castillo Theatre, joins the East Side Institute as a co-sponsor of the conference. PTW '08 will be based out of the All Stars' performance and development center on 42nd Street near Times Square, and will be hosted by young people from around the city. Workshops and performances will take place there and at theatres, schools and other venues throughout Manhattan and other boroughs. New Yorkers from virtually every neighborhood will open up their homes to out-of-towners, not only to save on hotel costs, but also to incorporate the diversity of family and neighborhood into the experience of the weekend and to build person-to-person ties between ordinary New Yorkers and performance activists and scholars from around the world. Proposals This year's theme, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," encourages participants to attend to history and process-their own and that of the performance movement. We are particularly interested in examinations/explorations of the shift from a cognitive to a performative approach to understanding, interacting with and (re) creating the world as embodied in the work of the participants and/or those they with whom they work/play/ study. Also of interest is the performance movement's interaction with and impact on the "big issues" facing the world- poverty, war and peace, sustainability, democracy, globalization, cultural diversity and reativity, the list could go on. The second day of PTW '08 will be devoted to "An International Celebration of Youth" and we encourage those interested to submit proposals relative to youth, youth performance and youth development for that day. Fields of Interest: A sampling of conversational themes, panels, workshops and performances: · Performance as a Community Building Methodology · Postmodern Creativity and Performance · Knowing, Not Knowing and Performing · Performance and Politics · Performance in Daily Life · The Therapeutics of Performance · The Creativity of the Group, Ensemble and Community · Theatre and Community · The Creativity of Improvisation · Performing, Improvising and Learning · The Power of Play · Conflict Resolution and Performance Instructions and forms for submitting proposals, due April 1, 2008, can be viewed and downloaded at www.performingtheworld.org. Proposals should be e-mailed to Lois Holzman at ptw@eastsideinstitute.org. The subject headline should be PTW Proposal. If you can't e-mail, then mail or fax to: Lois Holzman, Director East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy 920 Broadway, 14th Floor New York, New York 10010 U.S.A. 21. CfP: 'Touch and Sound' - SCAN journal (due April 1) Subject: CfP 'Touch and Sound' for SCAN journal This issue of SCAN is devoted to a reconsideration of touch and of ?sound as practices we use to make meanings in our lives and of the world. Touch is sometimes construed as simply a physical phenomenon, and yet ?there are very specific ways in which we touch and are touched. Indeed, the metaphorical uses of the word, touch indicate that its ?significance is also emotional, intellectual and spiritual. Recent work by philosophers such as Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy and anthropologists such as Constance Classen and Kathryn Lynn Geurts, among others, demonstrates the importance of understanding the ?complex meanings of touch. Sound, too, is a phenomenon that is sometimes construed as 'simply' ?part of our world, either as random, accidental and ephemeral or as ?highly organised (as music, voice) in specific contexts that are ?fundamentally different from the other sonic events that shape our lives. Of course, composers like Philip Glass questioned this ?distinction many years ago and yet it is only recently, following the ?work of theorists such as Murray Schafer and Theo van Leeuwen, that we have begun to understand sound more holistically - as meaningful ?in our world, whether that be the sound of our streetscape, of our favourite band or television program or symphony, or the accent and intonation of the voices around us. We invite papers that address the cultural meanings and significance?of touch and of sound. And we are particularly interested in papers that explore the interrelationship between the two in the making of meanings. Please send abstracts by 1 April 2008 with the following Subject line:?SCAN issue [your last name]?to Professor Anne Cranny-Francis Anne.Cranny-Francis@mq.edu.au If accepted, the full paper will be due by 1 July 2008. Somatechnics Research Centre?Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy?Macquarie University?NSW 2109 Australia? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22. CfP: 'Queer in Europe: A 3-Day International Research Symposium' - Sept 13-15 2008, U of Exeter, UK (due May 31) 'Queer in Europe' A 3-Day International Research Symposium to be held at The University of Exeter, UK Call for Papers Queer theory as an academic discourse emerged in the1980s in the Anglo-American world in the wake of post-structuralist currents coming from continental Europe, such as Foucaldian discourse analysis and Derridean deconstruction. It constituted both a reaction against identity-politics-based perspectives, such as feminism and gay and lesbian studies on the one hand, and a development, modification and expansion of them on the other. (Indeed, in some quarters, it is now routinely used as a synonym for them.) Queer historicizes and relativizes the disciplinary assertions (psychological, medical) about the meanings of gender and sexualities. However, as well as issuing from the academy, queer also emerged at grass-roots level as a strategy of contestation in response to homophobic political rhetoric surrounding the AIDS crisis of the 1980s. (The ironic recuperation of the term 'queer' by Queer Nation, for example, is central to the subverting force that queer discourse carries.) The importance of this link between 'high theory' and political activism, and the intermeshing of European and American influences in creating queer, are only occasionally acknowledged or interrogated in the numerous existing published studies of queer. All too often, queer is treated at a national level as a national phenomenon, shorn of its crucial global dimension. Theorists are accused of abstraction, and activists of a lack of understanding. And the importance of queer both as an artistic practice and as a hermeneutic tool is often underplayed or ignored. Moreover, just as Moldavia famously exists in the American imagination as a land of unreality and fantasy, so mental maps of Europe are often distorted and incomplete. The aim of this conference, organized in conjunction with a network bid and a consciousness raising book project, is to address these issues by bringing together scholars and activists from a wide variety of backgrounds to discuss the following broad questions: 1). How are paradigms of same sex love and other dissident sexualities experienced in different national cultures, discourses and political arenas? 2). How is the body of work known as Queer Theory disseminated and received in Europe, and how do the paradigms identified in (1) affect this? 3). How do the factors identified in (1) and (2) affect the production and reception of cultural artefacts (literature, film & television, drama and cabaret, the visual arts, popular music etc.)? 4). How do the factors identified in (1), (2) and (3) impinge on and help to set the agenda for future scholarship and activism in this field? What we are hoping for at this stage are expressions of interest from as wide a spectrum of potential participants as possible, including artists and practitioners as well as theorists and activists. It is envisaged that, alongside traditional academic papers, there will be workshops and breakout groups, sessions run by activists and artists, poster sessions and performances, a round table discussion and a publication workshop. A discussion forum will also be in place for those who are unable to attend the conference in person. A volume of conference proceedings, designed to reflect the whole spectrum of activities, will be submitted to Ashgate's 'Queer Interventions' series, with anticipated publication in 2009. Expressions of interest, accompanied where appropriate by paper titles and short proposals (no more than 200 words) should be addressed to either Lisa Downing l.m.downing@exeter.ac.uk or Robert Gillett r.m.gillett@qmul.ac.uk by May 31 2008. 23. Cf Contributions: 'New Communities of Knowledge and Practice' - DRHA Conference, Sept 14-17 2008, Cambridge, UK (no due date) Forthcoming Digital Resources in the Humanities & Arts Conference DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice' The DRHA conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues will take Place from Sunday14th September to Wednesday 17th September The aim of the conference is to: Cambridge's venues range from the traditional to the contemporary all situated within walking distance of central departments, museums and galleries. Cambridge offers a state of the art digital audio production centre - the Centre for Music and Science - and a number of additional rooms, including a recital room and a 'black box' performance space, to cater for this year's delegates' parallel programming and performances. The conference will be based at the Faculty of Music's West Road site. West Road Concert Hall is situated on the Sidgwick Site, which is the main campus for the Arts & Humanities. It has been the focus for an extensive programme of new building and now exhibits some of Cambridge'smost important twentieth and twenty-first century architecture; an immediately contemporary setting in which to address the opportunities and challenges that digital technologies hold for the arts and humanities. In contrast, West Road is within walking distance of the historic 'backs' where the traditional side of Cambridge is best displayed. A Call for Papers will be posted at the end of February - beginning of March. Please look out for this and further conference details. We look forward to your participation. Sue Broadhurst Dr Sue Broadhurst, 24. CfP: 'Paradigm, Praxis, Field' - Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Fall 2007 (no due date) The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism announces an open call for papers and the publication of its fall 2007 issue: vol. XXII no. 1. CALL FOR PAPERS paradigm . . . n. . . . 1 a) a pattern, example, or model b) an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community, as a science, because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process, idea, or set of data 2 Gram. an example of a declension or conjugation, giving all the inflectional forms of a word---SYN. model. praxis . . . n. . . . 1 practice, as distinguished from theory, of an art, science, etc. 2 established practice, custom 3 [Now Rare] a set of examples or exercises, as in grammar field . . . n. . . . 1 a wide stretch of open land; plain; 2 a piece of cleared land, set off or enclosed . . . 6 a battlefield . . . 10 the background, as on a flag or coin . . . - vt. Baseball, cricket a) to stop or catch or to catch and throw (a The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism seeks articles of three types for future issues: (2) essays of 15-25 manuscript pages, exclusive of notes, investigating praxis,such as theatre practices that raise questions about the nature of theatre, drama,or performance; (3) shorter essays, interviews, or dialogues reflecting on the field by examining a body of work by an individual author or a recent theoretical or critical trend. Inquiries may be directed to the managing editor at jdtc@ku.edu. To submit a manuscript, please send an electronic copy as a Word attachment (including a cover page with name, address, e-mail, and phone number). Manuscripts may also be sent (with personal information indicated above on a separate page) by mail to: Iris Smith Fischer, Editor 25. CfP: 'Jewish Theatre and Cinema' - Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, August 2-6, 2009 (no due date) Call for Papers Jewish Theatre and Cinema within the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies Jerusalem, August 2-6, 2009 (Division D: Languages, Literatures, and Arts) The Jewish Theatre and Cinema section of the Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies is now open for Proposals. We seek: Individual Papers: Proposals which center on theoretical, cultural, historical, or practice-based issues of Jewish theatre and/or cinema. Sessions: Those interested in proposing a complete session (up to four lectures) are requested to specify the subject of the session and the names of the scholars whose agreement to participate has already been obtained. A brief explanation and a short abstract of the proposed lectures should also be submitted. The scope of "Jewish" theatre or/and cinema is intentionally open, but the specific approach that will be applied should be addressed in the proposal. Proposals may focus on narrative, cultural, historical, traditional, ethical, aesthetic, or any other aspects that are relevant to Jewish expression within these two artistic media. The lectures will be twenty-five (25) minutes, with an additional fifteen (15) minutes for open discussion of each contribution. Please send your proposals or questions to: Please, also see the instructions for joining the World Congress of Jewish Studies at: http://www.jewish-studies.org/ShowDoc.asp?MenuID=118 |
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Forthcoming Conferences and Seminars 26. Orlan at Goldsmiths, Feb 5 2008, UK Tuesday 5 February 2008 The Department of Drama's Performance Research Forum and the Digital Studios' (Department of Computing) Thursday Club are delighted to co-host this special event, a TALK by one of the most original and provocative woman artists working today in what she calls CARNAL ART. "Unlike 'Body Art', from which I set it apart, Carnal Art does not desire pain as a means of redemption, or to attain purification. Carnal Art does not wish to achieve a final 'plastic' result, but rather seeks to modify the body, and engage in public debate. Carnal Art is not against cosmetic surgery but, rather against the conventions carried by it and their subsequent inscription, within female flesh in particular, but also male. Carnal Art is feminist, that is necessary. It is interested not only in cosmetic surgery, but also advanced techniques in medicine and biology that question the status of the body and the ethical questions posed by them" ORLAN All welcome. Entrance free. Latecomers will not be admitted. 27. Reflect on This Symposium, Feb 6 2008, York St John U, UK Reflect On This Symposium, York St John University This symposium asks: 28. Symposium on Contemporary Arabic Drama, Feb 9 2008, U of Hull, UK The Department of Drama and Music of the University of Hull and the Middle East Dramatic Arts Forum are pleased to announce: A one-day Symposium on Contemporary Arabic Drama Saturday 9 February 2008 The keynote speaker will be the award-winning Egyptian playwright Lenin El-Ramly. Other speakers will include: Sawsan Darwaza, Sulayman Al-Bassam, Nabil Sawalha plus Grid Iron. The Symposium will run from 10.00am to 4.00pm. In the evening there will also be a script-in-hand reading of Lenin El-Ramly's play: THE CAPTIVES The fee for the Symposium will be £75 (£40 student concession), to include lunch and refreshments during the day. There will also be an optional dinner for those staying on for the evening's performance. For more details, please visit: http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/337367/symposium/index.html or contact Tony Meech (a.j.meech@hull.ac.uk) 29. Imagined Futures Symposium, Feb 10 2008, Camden Arts Centre, UK IMAGINED FUTURES SYMPOSIUM Camden Arts Centre Contributors: This student led symposium offers a rare opportunity to experience a diverse range of artistic concern in contemporary film and video art. Bringing together artists who've made important contributions to the history of experimental film and video practices, Imagined Futures presents a space within in which artists and audience may together address recent developments in technology and methodologies reflecting upon and towards potential futures. This event is free but places are limited, advance booking highly recommended. Supported by Middlesex University, LUX and Camden Arts Centre. CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE http://www.camdenartscentre.org <http://www.camdenartscentre.org/> 30. Asian and African Theatre in Higher Education, Feb 13 2008, U of Reading, UK Wednesday 13 February 2008 The aim of this event is to gather together HE practitioners and teachers from different academic disciplines (such as dance, drama and linguistics) to discuss the integration of non-Western techniques, philosophies and principles into the HE curriculum. The event seeks to provide an opportunity for the sharing of teaching pedagogies and a forum for the discussion of methodological concerns, such as: * How is non-Western theatre given relevancy in a UK HE context? The day will also consider how a support network, including a research network, might be established amongst practitioners and academics working in these fields in the UK. Details of travel information and accommodation for delegates attending this event are available on the following web page: http://www.palatine.ac.uk/events/view/1138/ Programme 9.30 - 10:30 Registration 31. Are We American? Feb 13-15 2008, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, Montreal, Canada The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada is organizing a major national conference entitled Are We American? Canadian Culture in North America which will be held February 13-15, 2008, at the Omni Mont-Royal Hotel in Montreal. You will find the programme and the registration form at the following website: www.mcgill.ca/culture2008/ Over two and a half days, the conference will ask whether it makes sense to speak of a common North American culture. If Canada, the United States and Mexico share a continent, do they also share cultural values, tastes and preoccupations? Are there features of Canadian culture which ensure the smooth passage of our music, media, literature, humour and other forms of expression across the broader cultural space of North America? Or do differences of language, population and resources continue to act as barriers, limiting the success of Canadian culture elsewhere on the continent? The conference will bring together artists, entrepreneurs, policy-makers and scholars who are concerned with Canadian culture and its circulation throughout North America. In key-note addresses and focused panels, the conference will address the question of how Canadian culture, in its various forms, fits within a broader North American identity. We have recruited an interesting group of speakers and our challenge now is to attract an equally distinguished group of participants. I believe the conference will be an exceptionally interesting event and I hope that you will be able to join us. Please do not hesitate to add this information to your website, forward it to your colleagues and email any distribution lists you have access to. We hope to see you at the conference! 32. Sarah Kane: Reassessments, Feb 16 2008, U of Cambridge, UK Saturday, 16 February 2008 Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Sarah Kane's plays are performed all over the world; books and articles on her work are starting to appear; she is a standard reference for contemporary theatre historians and young theatre makers. But which Sarah Kane do these histories construct? What aspects of her work have we forgotten, obscured or denied? What are the continuities and discontinuities between Kane, her predecessors and her contemporaries? Thirteen years on from Blasted's debut at the Royal Court, this conference is an opportunity to revisit Kane's work and place it in a new critical light. The conference will be framed by two keynote contributions from Professor Elaine Aston (University of Lancaster) on 'Re-viewing Kane' and Dr Chris Megson (Royal Holloway, University of London) on Sarah Kane and the Politics of Identity'. An international array of scholars, including Mireia Aragay, Brenda Foley, Helen Iball, David Pattie, Frances Piper, Duska Radosavljevic, Graham Saunders, and Lián Sifuentes, will be presenting papers on topics including - Kane and Love The conference is jointly organised by the University of Cambridge, Royal Holloway, and Anglia Ruskin University. For further information please contact the conference organisers Gianna Bouchard (g.bouchard@anglia.ac.uk), Anna Harpin (arh52@cam.ac.uk), or Dan Rebellato (d.rebellato@rhul.ac.uk) Booking The fee for Sarah Kane: Reassessments is £30 / £20 (student rate), including lunch and refreshments. To book online: go to http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Drama/News-and-Events/SarahKaneConf.html and follow the link from there. To book by post please send a cheque made out to 'RHUL' to Sarah Kane Conference, Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX 33. Aesopic Voices: Reframing Truth in Twentieth-century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables International Conference, Feb 21-23 2008, Melbourne, Australia Aesopic Voices: Reframing Truth in Twentieth-century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables International Conference, Melbourne, February 21-23, 2008 Organised by Philip Morrissey and Gert Reifarth When political, social or religious circumstances are hostile to truth and open debate, artists may seek refuge in the realm of the Aesopic. Like Aesop 26 centuries ago, they disguise their ideas under the veil of a seemingly unrelated form of discourse. Our conference seeks to examine this phenomenon in our age and on five continents. For details and our call for papers (Deadline January16), visit http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/aesopic-conference/index.html 34. NoPassport Conference Dreaming the Americas/The Body Politic in Performance, Feb 22 2008, Graduate Center the City U of New York, US THE GRADUATE CENTER THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK* *NoPe - NoPassport Conference* NoPassport presents a one-day conference with the support of The Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, Translation Think Tank, and in collaboration with Frank Hentschker and the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center.* Initiated by Caridad Svich www.caridadsvich.com/NoPassport* The conference will focus on a wide range of contemporary works for Theatre and performance, viewing the body politic from a variety of formal perspectives. Topics that will be addressed in panels and special presentations include: the myriad articulations of political theatre, the face of theatre and social justice, mending democracy through theatre, dramaturgy affected by new technologies, performing the borderlands in and outside the US, intercultural negotiations in acts of translation, reconfiguring the classics, history, memory and transculturation in new writing. _There will also be a book launch event for the release of three volumes from NoPassport Press. *NoPassport *was founded by playwright Caridad Svich as a Pan- American theatre alliance & press devoted to action, advocacy, and change toward the fostering of cross-cultural diversity and difference in the arts with an emphasis on the embrace of the hemispheric spirit in US Latina/o and Latin-American theatre-making. Special thanks are given to The Segal Center for facilitating book sales at this event, Robert Jereski for help with coordination of the Plan Mexico panel, and the NoPe Conference Steering Committee: Daniel Banks, Daniel Brunet, Rafael Gallegos, Lanna Joffrey and Christina Marin. *For detailed information and final schedule please check our website: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/mestc Friday, Feb. 22nd, 07 10:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. * Martin E. Segal Theatre Free.* 35. Goat Island: Lastness, Raiding the Archive, and Pedagogical Practices in Performance: A Symposium, Feb 29-March 2 2008, Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster, UK A symposium Friday 29 Feb - Sunday 2 March Nuffield Theatre, Lancaster Goat Island are one of the world's leading contemporary performance ensembles. They make intimate, low-tech, intensely physical performance that represents a distinctive hybrid of strategies drawn from live art, experimental theatre and postmodern dance. As the company tour their final performance work, The Lastmaker, this symposium is an opportunity to reflect upon the unique contribution they have made to the field of performance, teaching and collaborative practices in the last twenty years. Although shaped like a symposium, Goat Island: Lastness, raiding the archive, and pedagogical practices in performance is a cross-platform event. Academic papers will be presented alongside performative responses from a range of artists. The themes in circulation will be:? - Lastness: The Lastmaker and ending in time Invited speakers and creative responders: Open call: Please note, the schedule will not be finalised until the 'open call' proposals have been selected. If you would like a copy of the provisional schedule of this event, or have any questions, please contact Alice Booth at alice@nuffieldtheatre.com REMINDER: Deadline for open call proposals: Monday 28th January 2008, 5pm. Presentations should last no longer than 25 minutes. One-page proposals can take any written form; academic synopsis, performance outline etc. Please also submit a brief CV. Selections will be made to represent a balance of voices. More info on Nuff website. To book tickets for the symposium, please contact the Nuffield Theatre Box Office: 36. The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, March 8-9 2008, Trinity College, Oxford, UK The Conference 'The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe' will take place at Trinity College, Oxford, March 8-9 2008. THE OSCHOLARS is very pleased to host the official website for the Conference at www.oscholars.com. A link will be found there for the conference programme, registration details etc. The pages will be updated to reflect any changes. 37. Researching Applied Drama, Theatre and Performance, April 1-5 2008, Exeter U, UK Researching Applied Drama, Theatre and Performance Conference Exeter University, April 1-5, 2008 Booking is now open for the Researching Applied Drama, Theatre and Performance Conference at Exeter University, April 1-5, 2008. Booking is open until January 31st 2008: http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/appliedconf/bookingform.html Information on conference fees is available at: http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/appliedconf/fees.html Please check the conference website for more information and regular updates: http://www.spa.ex.ac.uk/drama/appliedconf/welcome.html or contact Conference Director Dr Kerrie Schaefer @ K.V.Schaefer@exeter.ac.uk 38. Performing Heritage Conference, April 3-5 2008, U of Manchester Registration is now open for the Performing Heritage conference, 3rd -5th April 2008. The conference will take place at the University of Manchester and will provide a forum for discussing how research and practice in the field of museum performance/live interpretation can inform one another. The registration form can be downloaded here http://www.plh.manchester.ac.uk/register.htm More information about areas covered by the conference, keynote speakers and accommodation can be found on the conference website located here - www.plh.manchester.ac.uk/conference.htm. Register now and pay the early bird delegate rate! 39. Theatre: Crossroads of the Humanities, April 10-12 2008, Northwestern U, US Northwestern University Northwestern University announces our second conference in a series addressing methodological challenges of interdisciplinary theatre scholarship. Northwestern's doctoral program in Theatre and Drama is a leader in research and pedagogy that bridges disciplinary bounds. For our upcoming conference, "Theatre: Crossroads of the Humanities," we will discuss innovative interdisciplinary work in-progress and encourage discussion that probes the relationship between theatre, dance, performance studies, and other disciplines. In particular we ask: |