The 40th Annual Mid-America Theatre Conference Cleveland Marriot Downtown at Key Center, March 7 – 10, 2019 “INVENTION” Theatre History Symposium—Call for Papers All proposals must be received by October 15, 2018 We seem awash in invention at the moment. But are we drowning in it? What innovations float to the top? Does our current sea […]
Dancing in Common Dance Studies Association, August 8-11, 2019 Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois Kate Elswit and Melissa Blanco Borelli, program co-chairs Susan Manning, local arrangements chair What might it mean to speak about “the common” or “the commons” in relation to dancing bodies? How do long-standing ideas about the common good and common property inflect […]
Special Issue of Studies in Musical Theatre: Ethnography and Musical Theatre Guest Editors: Judah M. Cohen (Indiana University) and Jake Johnson (Oklahoma City University) Deadline: October 1, 2018 With Musical Theatre studies now thriving in the fields of musicology, theatre, and literature, the time is right to expand into a more ethnographic mode that explores […]
New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, Volume Four: Albee’s Influence on American Drama New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies is the official publication of the Edward Albee Society, published annually by Brill. (Volume One, Edward Albee and Absurdism, published January 2017, Volume Two, Sex, Gender and Sexualities in Edward Albee’s Plays forthcoming, March 2018.) Volume […]
The Nominations and Elections Committee of the August Wilson Society calls for the nomination of eligible officers on its executive board to serve a two-year term beginning August 2018. Candidates are eligible for nomination if a) their AWS membership is current and b) they meet the qualifications of their office of interest. The August Wilson […]
The American Theatre and Drama Society invites submissions for the Spring 2019 issue of The Journal of American Drama and Theatre The Embodied Arts Submission Deadline: 15 Oct. 2018 From the earliest examples of embodied art, theatre and dance have been intertwined. Witness the dual meaning of the ancient Hindu term “Nāṭya” as dance-theatre […]
Call for Papers: Puppetry International #44: Puppetry Social Action/Social Justice PUPPETRY INTERNATIONAL seeks brief articles (max. 2000 words) for its “Puppetry in Social Action/Social Justice” issue. We intend a broad interpretation of the topic and a style that will appeal to general readers with a strong interest in any aspect of the theme. Possible […]
CALL FOR PROPOSALS (BOOK) Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away Editor: Judith Rudakoff Abstracts Due June 30 “Suggested by a friend: ‘If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” This tweet by […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Let the Sun Shine In: American Theatre, Protest and Censorship An international conference co-sponsored by the American Theatre & Drama Society and the Eccles Centre for American Studies https://www.atds.org/ https://www.bl.uk/eccles-centre October 26-27, 2018 British Library, London (UK) Keynote speakers: Prof. Ramón Espejo Romero, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) Dr. Marlis Schweitzer, York University (Canada) In […]
Please see CFP below for the guaranteed ATDS panel(s) at the 2018 conference of our affiliate organization, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, in Denver, Colorado, November 7-11, 2018. If interested, please send paper title and abstract (250-300 words) to Cheryl Black, BlackC@missouri.edu by April 25. The conference theme is “Resistance and Recovery Across the Americas” For more […]
“Sites of Performance and Protest: Dramaturging Public Space in Boston” Session Chair: LaRonika Thomas, Loyola University Maryland & University of Maryland, College Park Panel Description: Panelists dramaturg the city of Boston through a series of site visits and responses to public spaces of protest in Boston. Building off of last year’s panel on “Dramaturgies of […]
The Revolution: 1968 & the Politics of the Arts in the United States Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès November 22, 2018 Symposium cosponsored by CAS EA 801 (UT2J) and EMMA (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) Organized by Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner, Emeline Jouve 50 years after 1968, a key year in the history of the world and […]
Call for Papers Special Issue of Theatre Survey Performing Girlhoods Marlis Schweitzer, Associate Editor Theatre Survey invites submissions for a special issue on performing girlhoods. Taking a cue from girlhood studies, this issue aims to investigate theatre’s role in the lived experiences of those who identify as girls (including trans individuals), while also analyzing […]
The editors of Theatre Topics are pleased to announce a call for submissions to the journal’s upcoming Special Issue on graduate education. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018. Early submissions are encouraged. Since the economic crisis of 2008, tenure-stream academic positions in the arts and humanities have declined sharply, graduate student debt continues […]
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 […]
The 37th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference, May 9-12, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and/or the works of our 2018 honoree Carlyle Brown, designed for a 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. A wide variety of perspectives and themes are encouraged. Both Brown […]