Immersive theatre on Anglophone and Francophone contemporary stages Friday January 17th, 2020 Sorbonne Université / Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès / RADAC (Recherche sur les Arts Dramatiques Anglophones Contemporains) Immersive theatre appears to be a flourishing trend on the contemporary stage. The events which are labelled as such all share the intention of “[placing] the […]
Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual Conference November 14-17, 2019San Diego, California CALL FOR PAPERS Drama and Society 2: “Theater as reflecting the ‘state-of-the-nation’” Theater is a uniquely effective venue for artists to comment on the affairs of a nation, responding to the temper of the times. Not only does it function as a public forum for debate, […]
O’Neill Beyond the Horizon(s) The 11th International Conference on Eugene O’Neill Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts June 17 – 20, 2020 At the 100-year anniversary of Eugene O’Neill’s first full-length play—Beyond the Horizon(1920), which garnered his first Pulitzer Prize–and of the first play to break the color line on Broadway—The Emperor Jones (1920)—it seems fitting to […]
Call for Papers Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Special Section on Intimacy Choreography The emergence of intimacy choreography as a recognized field invites theatre scholars into significant reflection. Almost as soon as the term intimacy entered the English lexicon in the 17th century as a way to signal profundity of emotional connection, it also began to […]
Call for Papers: Special Section Theatre History Studies Volume 40 (2021) Co-editors: Jane Barnette and Chrystyna Dail Shifting Shapes: Witch Characters and Witchy Performances Actual or inferred witch characters appear in myriad cultures spanning theatre and performance history. Examples abound: the witch-demons in Kyogen, the virgins in Hrosvitha’s Dulcitius, Adeola and several witch doctor characters […]
Call for Papers for #mapaca19 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2019 Annual Conference November 7-9, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA — Pittsburgh Marriott City Center Hotel Call for papers: Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Pittsburgh, […]
Signs Special Issue: RAGE Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society invites submissions for a special issue titled “Rage,” slated for publication in the summer of 2021. Feminists are raging. This special issue will consider our rage as a global, complex phenomenon that mandates interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis. Rage is historical. Rage can be […]
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium 2019 Friday, May 3 – Saturday, May 4, 2019 Call for Papers The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium (PTRS) is seeking abstracts for papers for our 13th annual gathering of theatre scholars and practitioners. The Villanova Theatre Department together with the American Theatre and Drama Society will host this two-day event that […]
The MLA Drama and Performance Forum invites abstracts for a sponsored session titled “Performing Slavery’s Preinventions.” In the long afterlife of the transatlantic slave trade, drama and performance have offered vital engagements with the material and psychic persistence of slavery’s structures of racial violence. But in what ways was the ground laid in earlier periods […]
ECHOES & REMANENCE OF 1968 IN THE ARTS OF THE UNITED STATES Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France November 15, 2019 Symposium cosponsored by CAS EA 801 (UT2J) and EMMA (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) Organized by Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner, Émeline Jouve This symposium follows a first one held in Toulouse on November 22, 2018, devoted […]
2019 Errol Hill Award Offered by the American Society for Theatre Research. This year the awards will focus on books, rather than essays or articles. Books published from the past two years are eligible for consideration (2017 and 2018). Submissions are due by April 19, 2019. Please note that three copies of the book must be submitted (one for […]
Call for Papers The 13th International Arthur Miller Conference Ashland University | Ashland, Ohio October 18-20, 2019 Conference Topic: Arthur Miller and the Question of Relevance In his remarks at Arthur Miller’s memorial service at the Majestic Theater in New York City in 2005, Tony Kushner noted Miller “demanded that we must be able to […]
Beginning in 2020, the Penn State University Press will be publishing The Thornton Wilder Journal twice per year. Essays on all aspects of Wilder’s career and newly discovered and edited primary documents are invited. The deadline for the first issue is June 1, 2019. Please contact Jackson R. Bryer at jbryer@umd.edu for further information.
“Empathy as Being Human in American Drama” Papers will consider how American theatre and drama of any period addresses empathy as part of the human experience. What notions of empathy are sedimented into traditional form(s) and/or by what practices do American plays re-humanize compassion for “the other?” Do American plays invite us to recognize “the […]
Special Volume of Frontiers, A Women Studies Journal: “Staging Feminist Futures” 41.3 (Feb. 2021) Special Volume Editor: Kimberly Jew, University of Utah Deadline: February 11, 2019 Space, energy, temporal fluidity, moving bodies, present voices and affect,witnesses, narrative. The theatrical stage offers a moving, three-dimensional world in which to explore imagined embodiments and emotions, and to momentarily restructure the boundaries of […]
SETC Theatre Symposium – Theatre and Citizenship SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 28 “Theatre and Citizenship” DATES: April 12-14 2019 LOCATION: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA More than simply a legal status, citizenship can be thought of as a performative act – whether that act be attending a play in classical Athens, exhorting fellow suffragists in […]