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Whether he parodied, plagiarized, appropriated, translated, borrowed, or critiqued, Oscar Wilde’s work contains a web of references that vigorously engages with the voices of others. The way Wilde spoke with and through his sources may reveal not only his own influences and allegiances, but also aspects of larger conversations within late Victorian culture involving artistic production, Decadence, theater, journalism, scholarship, poverty, gender issues, sexuality, prison reform, and more.

Call for abstracts for the 2022 NeMLA conference in Baltimore, Maryland, March 10-13, 2022

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 8

Please circulate:

Theatre and Social Action

Call for Papers for the Methuen Drama Handbooks series

Theaters have closed everywhere. Theaters are reopening. And at the same time, the global pandemic and recent social movements have urgently been measured, mediated, and aided by the arts and theater makers to reshape the way we must now represent, facilitate, and protest.

Othello's Island - Nicosia, Cyprus 2022

The Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

5 and 6 April  2022 - CVAR, Nicosia Cyprus​

With site visit by coach to see medieval and renaissance Cyprus on 7 April 2022

Where and why do we find examples of “embodied rhetoric” in the eighteenth century? We might think of Defoe’s description of Friday’s gesture placing his head beneath Robinson Crusoe’s foot signifying voluntary servitude and its relation to the supplicating figure of “Am I not a Man and a Brother” emblem, memoralized by Wedgewood. Or we might consider Trim’s gesture with his hat in Tristram Shandy describing how we pass from life to death, and onwards to Gilbert Austin’s Chironomia as a handbook for speaking gesture (building upon Bulwer’s Chirologia) as figures for something like “embodied rhetoric” or an emphasis on gesture and persuasive or signifying postures.

Si pensamos el sujeto de la política y el sujeto de la revolución como un sujeto constitutivamente vulnerable, entonces la revolución es completamente distinta. Ya no es un proyecto de poder, es un proyecto de cuidado"- Paul B. Preciado

CALL FOR PAPERS

Stanley Cavell: A Retrospective

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan

Palazzo Arese-Borromeo (Cesano Maderno), September 23th - 24th 2021 

Website: https://cavellretrospective.wixsite.com/september2021

The conference will take place physically at Palazzo Arese-Borromeo in Cesano Maderno (25 minutes from the city center of Milan), but will also be streamed on Microsoft Teams.

To attend online, click on the following links:

We are delighted to announce that the research group Staging National Abjection: Theatre and Politics in Turkey and its Diasporas is resuming its webinar series in Fall 2021.

This year, part of our webinar series will highlight the work of emerging scholars in the broader field of theatre and performance studies, particularly the scholarship on performance and politics.

We invite papers and works-in-progress by MA and PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars. The duration of the webinars will be approximately one hour. Participants can submit proposals for:

• a 30-minute presentation for individual papers

August Wilson Journal is a peer-reviewed open access journal that promotes the ongoing study of Wilson's American Century Cycle. The journal seeks scholarly papers on all aspects of August Wilson career.

Selected topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Literary Interpretation 

Performative Theory?Studies

Interdisciplinary Approaches 

Film Analysis of Fences and/or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Literary Theory 

August Wilson's Impact on Education (high school, college, etc,)

Comparative Literature Approaches

Historical Research

Biographical Research

Interviews

Paper Submissions

 Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 

Screen Storytelling: 

The Works of Shonda Rhimes 

Edited by Anna Weinstein 

53rd NeMLA Convention

10-13 March 2022, Baltimore, MD

Although there appears to be a notable amount of literature discussing the topic of gender and media, the relation between gender, identity and their transposition in fiction remains a relevant aspect to be analyzed.

Theatrical Reconstructions (Proposed Panel)

C19 CONFERENCE

March 31-April 2

Panel Organizers:

Michael D’Alessandro, Duke University

Brian D. Valencia, Florida International University

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) continues its annual tradition of inviting all scholars new to the field of early drama studies, in all national and linguistic traditions of early (medieval and early modern) drama, to submit their work to the “New Voices” panel for the 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, hosted by the Medieval Institute of Western Michigan University, and to be held virtually, May 9-14, 2022. We specifically invite graduate students and recent PhDs (within four years of receiving the degree) to submit. The panel will consist of three papers and a response by Nicole R.