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National Endowments for the Arts

Institute on Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies

June 17-29, 2018

University of Georgia (Athens, GA)

Application Deadline: March 1, 2018

The institute is for college and university faculty would like to integrate digital technologies into their curricula, and who would like to gain a deeper understanding of the technologies and techniques to make this possible. The program assumes no prior expertise in digital media. Through presentations and hands-on workshops, the institute’s participants will gain valuable techniques and experience in how best to integrate digital methods and tools in teaching theatre studies and performance practice.

We hope to assemble a diverse and dynamic group of participants representing a variety of disciplines and levels of professional experience from advanced graduate students to senior faculty.

The institute is free of charge to all accepted participants, and the NEH will provide a stipend of $2,100 to cover travel and living expenses.

The project directors, Dr. David Saltz (University of Georgia) and Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng (Bowdoin College), are leaders in the field of digital performance; they recently co-authored the book Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (University of Michigan Press, 2015). They will be joined by a faculty of twelve that includes many of the country’s leading experts on digital performance and scholarship. The first week focuses on the impact of digital technologies on performance scholarship, and the second, on digital performance practices. Both weeks balance lectures, seminars, and hands-on workshops. Participants will leave the institute with specific exercises, lesson plans, and references to support continued development in their classrooms and their home institutions.

The institute was jointly initiated by the leadership of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). For information and to apply visit https://www.nehdigitaltheatre2018.com.

If you have any questions, please contact David Saltz at saltz@uga.edu.

ATDS and MLA

Chicago, 3-6 January 2019

“American Drama’s Ethical Transactions”

This panel will consider how twentieth century American plays define, operationalize, register, and/or critique ethical discourse. Is there an “ethics” of the twentieth century play? What people, places, and things are left out of this ethical discourse? For example, in asking ethical questions, some projects may wish to consider how American drama resists, and/or encodes, power relations. Research here may also be mindful of how specific American plays, masters, and movements help us to ask difficult questions rather than seek easier answers.

This panel will respond to questions at issue for the American Theatre and Drama Society’s discourse community as well as the Modern Language Association’s 2019 Presidential theme: “Anne Gere, the 2018–19 president of the MLA, has chosen Textual Transactions as the presidential theme for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. Textual transactions are the mutually constitutive engagements of human beings, texts, and their contexts.” More information about the MLA can be found: https://www.mla.org/.

The 2019 Convention will take place 3–6 January in Chicago (The 2020 convention will take place 9–12 January, in Seattle.) Please send vita and 300 word abstract by March 1st to Nicole Tabor at taborn@moravian.edu  Authors of accepted abstracts must join or renew membership to both ATDS and MLA by April 6, 2018. The ATDS statement of purpose: “The American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) is an incorporated organization dedicated to the study of theatre and drama in and of the Americas, its varied histories, traditions, literatures, and performances within its cultural contexts. ATDS also encourages the evolving debate exploring national identities and experiences through research, pedagogy, and practice. ATDS recognizes that notions of America and the US encompass migrations of peoples and cultures that overlap and influence one another. To this end, ATDS welcomes scholars, teachers, and practitioners world-wide.” For more information and to join or renew membership in ATDS: https://www.atds.org/index.html