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 […]
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 […]