Drama and Post-Truth Youth A Special Issue of Youth Theatre Journal Guest Edited by Gustave Weltsek (gweltsek@iu.edu) and Clare Hammoor This special edition of Youth Theatre Journal invites theoretical articles, investigative experiences, and research-based lesson plans that emerge from the notions of “post-truth” and “youthquake”. In 2016 the Oxford Dictionary selected “post-truth” as its word […]
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS: RETERRITORIALIZING DIGITAL PERFORMANCE FROM SOUTH TO NORTHGuest editors: Sonali Pahwa and William W. Lewis Deadline for submission: 28th February 2019Publication: 2019 in Volume 15, Issue 3 The International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media is seeking contributions by 28th February 2019 for a special issue on ‘Reterritorializing Digital Performance From South to North’.Digitally mediated bodies have […]
Nominations are now open for the 2019 Theatre Library Association Book Awards! Presented annually, the Theatre Library Association Book Awards recognize works of performing arts scholarship published during the previous calendar year that demonstrate exemplary use and interpretation of library and archival collections. Collections and anthologies consisting mainly of previously published materials; and memoirs/autobiographies without substantial […]
THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE FOR THEATRE AND EDUCATION invites submissions for the 2019 AATE RESEARCH AWARDS THE RESEARCH AWARD THE DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION AWARD THE DISTINGUISHED THESIS AWARD SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 26th, 2018 AATE’s research awards are offered annually to scholars whose research contributes significantly to the field of drama/theatre with or for young people. We welcome […]
Staging Academia: Campus Controversies in American Drama American Theatre & Drama Society Panel at the American Literature Association 30th Annual Conference May 23-26 2019 Boston The American Literature Association is a coalition of literary and drama societies devoted to the study of American authors. Since 1989, ALA’s annual conferences have provided scholars and artists […]
Société québécoise d’études théâtrales 2019 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Theatre and New Materialisms Carrefour des arts et des sciences Université de Montréal Montréal, CANADA May 27-29, 2019 Until recently, thinking about the theatre revolved around its liveness, the co-presence of (human) actors and spectators in the same place at the same time. Increasingly, however, the discussion […]
We invite proposals for essays to be published in EDWARD ALBEE: INFLUENCE, which will be Volume 4 of NEW PERSPECTIVES IN EDWARD ALBEE STUDIES, to be published by Brill. Essays can focus on theatrical, literary or cultural influences on Albee’s work OR on Albee’s influence on other writers, directors or genres. In particular, we are […]
Please see CFP immediately below for the guaranteed ATDS panel at the 2019 International Symposium on the Federal Theatre Project, Oct. 17-19, in Toulouse, France, at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University. If interested, please send paper title and abstract (250-300 words), including academic affiliation and full contact information (email, snail mail, telephone) to Dorothy Chansky, dorothychansky@gmail.com by December […]
Arthur Miller Society Call for Papers The Comparative Drama Conference (http://blogs.rollins.edu/drama/ ) Rollins College, Orlando: April 4-6, 2019 Once again this coming year, the Arthur Miller Society hopes to have a panel accepted at the Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando. The range of acceptable paper topics for this panel is broad: analyses of differing interpretations […]
The 40th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference March 15 – 18, 2018 Hyatt-Regency Cleveland “Invention” Emerging Scholars Symposium—Call For Papers Two Emerging Scholars Debut Panels: One Graduate & One Undergraduate Undergraduate and Graduate students who have not yet presented at a national conference are invited to submit papers for the Emerging Scholars Symposium, two debut panels […]
CFP: Dramaturgy as Public Criticism ATHE 2019 in Orlando (August 7-11) A multi-disciplinary panel to be submitted to Theory & Criticism and Dramaturgy Focus Groups Public theatre criticism is disappearing from traditional outlets (periodicals) at the same as dramaturgs and education/audience development associates are increasingly developing initiatives and programming to help audiences make meaning out […]
Call for Papers: Theory and Criticism Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 2019 Conference Orlando, Florida August 7-11, 2019 Please send questions to Theory and Criticism Conference Planner: Daniel Ciba (danciba@hotmail.com) 1) “Unities of Action”—An Interactive Roundtable Event In response to the 2019 ATHE conference theme, “Scene Changes: Performing, […]
Interdisciplinary Bilingual Conference Call for Papers Mediating Performance Experiences: Cultures and Technologies in Conversation To be held in LabO at the University of Ottawa, April 25 – 27, 2019 Hosted by: The Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa Studies in Migration, Interdisciplinary Research Group, University of Ottawa Organizing Committee: Dr. Yana Meerzon, Department of Theatre, […]
Please take note of two special issues of Theatre Journal, “Theatre and the Nonhuman” and “Water.” Deadlines for essay submissions are 6 January 2019 and 1 February 2019. Please contact individual issue editors with questions. We welcome your submissions. Theatre Journal Call for Papers Special Issue for September 2019: “Theatre and the Nonhuman” As terms […]
AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA SOCIETY (ATDS) SESSIONS ASSOCIATION FOR THEATRE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ATHE) CONFERENCE AUGUST 7-11, 2019 – HYATT REGENCY GRAND CYPRESS – ORLANDO, FL Submission Deadlines: October 15th (abstracts for individual papers only: submit to David Bisaha at dbisaha@binghamton.edu); November 1st (complete panel proposals: submit to ATHE at www.athe.org) ATHE 2019—Scene […]
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) is currently accepting submissions for its peer-reviewed journal Review. The mission of the journal is to provide a venue for the exploration of dramaturgy and for ongoing conversation about the work of dramaturgs and literary managers and their relationship to all stages of theatre-making. Review publishes […]