ATDS Panels at CDC 2021
Comparative Drama Conference will meet again in person in Orlando, Florida on October 14-16, 2021. However, the CDC board realizes that it may be difficult for some people to get to Orlando, so we will be offering the opportunity for a virtual reading of one’s paper. (You don’t have to know what your status will be upon submission of your abstract.)
The six panelists across two ATDS panels (on death in American drama and theatre) accepted for the postponed April 2020 meeting have been invited to give their papers in October. In addition, CDC is calling for two additional panels sponsored by ATDS.
Pandemic.
Papers may address any aspect of any pandemic as it is presented in or has affected American drama or theatre. “Pandemic” should be broadly conceived so as to include influenza, plague, polio, AIDS, health care, vaccination, politics of pandemic, etc. What might we learn from dramatic/theatrical approaches to pandemic? Did any play address the pandemic of 1918? If not, why not? How did the 1918 pandemic affect theatre? How are theatre practitioners addressing the current pandemic?
Something Else, or I really don’t want to think about pandemic any more.
Many of us have probably been continuing to work on whatever it was we were working on before the pandemic hit. To make life a little easier for scholars in search of an appropriate panel, the topic of this session is open: anything in American drama, theatre, or performance. (I will use my ingenuity to find an appropriate focus for accepted papers.)
Instructions.
Papers should be 15 minutes in length, written for oral presentation, and accessible to a multi-disciplinary audience. Please send a 250-word abstract as a WORD attachment to Dr. Verna A. Foster at vfoster@luc.edu by March 20, 2021. Please include paper title, author’s name, status (faculty, graduate student, other/scholar-at-large), institutional affiliation, and postal address at top left.
Abstracts will be printed in the conference program. Accepted presentations will be scheduled in a room with a projector, screen, and speakers. If you wish to use a laptop, please bring your own as well as a dongle. We do not provide remote control devices.
If you do not wish to present your paper on an ATDS-sponsored panel, please feel free to submit proposals to Dr. William C. Boles at compdrama@rollins.edu by 3 April 2021.