Theatre Survey Special Issue: Performance and the Public Good The words “performance,” “public,” and “good” combine to produce an analytic with the potential to illuminate a wide array of cultural practices. The concept of “public goods” receives its most fulsome treatment in the realm of economic theory, where its defining characteristics are nonexcludability and nonrivalrous […]
ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group:The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/DanceDeadline: February 15, 2020The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance at the 2020 ATHE conference in Detroit, Michigan from July 29-August […]
ATDS at MLAToronto 7-10 January 2021 Title: “Persistence in American Drama” This panel will consider how twentieth century American plays, live performances, masters, or movements in American drama and theatre from any period offer strategies for persistence in an age of mechanical reproduction. How do American plays model, operationalize, and/or resist persistence? Why and how […]
PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, volume 3, issue 2.Pedagogies of/and Performance-as-Research Special themed issue with guest editor Emily Rollie In its initial issues, PARtake has explored key topics related to the dynamic field of Performance-as-Research, including the modes of performing research, the ethics of participating in research, activism in PAR, and the rich intersections of […]
The 39th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and ConferenceMay 13-16, 2020Independence, Kansas CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and/or the works of our 2020 honoree Lynn Nottage, designed for a 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. A wide variety of perspectives and themes are encouraged. Papers selected for presentation […]
Circus and its Others2020 November 12-15University of California, Davis Revised Deadline – April 15, 2020 The Circus and its Others research project was launched in 2014 under the aegis of the Montréal Working Group on Circus Research to explore the ways in which contemporary circus artists and companies relate to difference in their practice. What has resulted […]
CFP for Proposed Volume on Science and Performance From the Curious to the Quantum: Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance Editors: Vivian Appler, College of CharlestonMeredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNYDeadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2020Deadline for Chapters: December 1, 2020 The sciences (natural, social, formal, technological, medical) have never operated independently of the cultures in which they are practiced. Performance is […]
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FIRST BOOK BOOTCAMPHosted by the American Theatre & Drama Societyto be held at theASSOCIATION FOR THEATRE IN HIGHER EDUCATION (ATHE) CONFERENCEDETROIT MARRIOTT AT THE RENAISSANCE CENTER, DETROIT, MIJULY 29-30, 2020 Submission Deadline:February 15, 2020This intensive two-day First Book Bootcamp offers contingent and tenure-stream faculty the opportunity to develop their book proposals and manuscripts alongside […]
Call for Papers : SETC Theatre Symposium Volume 29 “Theatre and Race”DEADLINE: Monday 20 January 2020DATES: April 3-5, 2020 LOCATION: Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GAThe performative nature of political and cultural discourse about race has recently been highlighted, both in the U.S. and around the world, by tweets and talk shows, parades and protests, movements and mass shootings, […]
Transformative Works and Cultures, a peer reviewed, open-access fan studies journal, is soliciting papers for its special issue on theatre and fandom. This special issue of TWC explores intersections between theatrical performance and fandom. Though ephemeral, theatre creates an affective experience known as “ghosting,” where fan memory is embedded and encoded in the objects of performance: actors, […]
New England Theatre JournalREVISEDCall for Papers New England Theatre Journal (a publication of the New England Theatre Conference) invites submissions for its year 2020 edition. A refereed publication, New England Theatre Journal is concerned with advancing the study and practice of theatre and drama by printing articles of the highest quality on a broad range of subjects, including […]
Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is the first and only journal in the broadly-conceived field of theatre studies to publish short-to-medium length research articles on any subject, as well as publish discussion and response articles. As such, TPNC is an ambitious journal that provides the field with a […]
Insurgent Spaces: Performing Revolt in PublicProposed Panel for the American Studies Association Annual Meeting(Baltimore, November 12-15, 2020):Everyday life is shaped by how people engage with the spaces they inhabit: the institutions of which they are a part, the national sites of memory that carve out certain histories for remembrance while occluding others, and the public […]
The Thornton Wilder Society invites papers on any aspect of the author’s career (playwright, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, teacher) to be presented at the American Literature Association Annual Conference (21-24 May 2020) in San Diego, CA. We particularly welcome papers on gender/sexuality and/or ethnicity but are open to all topics involving Wilder’s work and life.For information […]
Call for Works-in-Progress fromContingent Faculty ColleaguesPublication Development Forumhosted by Tufts UniversityFebruary 7, 2020 – 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. InvitationThe Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University announces a one-day Works-in-Progress Publication Development Forum for contingent faculty colleagues in the Greater New England area. Specifically designed to support faculty in contingent to positions, […]
Staging Democracy: Politics and Political Figures in 20th/21st century American DramaAmerican Theatre & Drama Society Panelat the American Literature Association31st Annual Conference May 21-24 2020 San Diego CAThe 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 […]