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Reading into Murder: interpretative essays on select cult texts.
Covid Play/s
Entertainment and the Arts in the Quarantimes
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2021
When the arts, culture, and entertainment industries of the world came to a screeching halt in late winter 2020, many commentators claimed this was the end of art as we know it. Theatre managers and museum directors grasped at straws, trying to stoke excitement via social media and running archival footage in hopes of generating revenue while their seats and halls remained empty. Artists’ opportunities to show or create non-digital work ran dry. Film and television sets were vacated and production put on hold.
"Adapting Print Genres for the Victorian Stage" will consider how British plays within the Victorian era (1837-1901) interacted with and responded to news stories, social movements, or cultural debates appearing in print genres, including newspapers, the periodical press, and literature. Often, a theatrical adaptation of a popular novel appeared even before its serialization had concluded, as in the case of Charles Dickens's 1839 novel Nicholas Nickleby, which appeared on 19 November 1838 at the Adelphi Theatre, adapted by Edward Stirling, a mere eight numbers into its serialization.
The editorial board of the academic quarterly "Litteraria Copernicana" extends an
invitation to researchers specializing in humanities to submit proposals of a thematic
volume which will be released as the issue 4/2021 or 1/2022.
The submission deadline is 20 January 2021.
We are waiting for your proposals at the following e-mail addresses:
litteraria.copernicana@gmail.com or lc@umk.pl.
44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
Oct. 14-16, 2021
Orlando, Florida
Abstracts Due: April 3, 2021
A one-day international online conference on 22 April 2021
The English Research Institute at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, is running a one-day international conference to reflect on closure of theatres in Shakespeare's time and our own.
It is well known that the theatres of Shakespeare's time repeatedly had to close as part of sensible precautions against the spread of the most serious communicable disease of the day: the plague. To stop the disease spreading, early moderns had to practise social distancing; without it a playgoer might bring home from the theatre more than just new ideas and ways of speaking.
Alto Quayson argues that “in works where disability plays a dominant role, the reader’s perspective is [ . .
Is drag separable from gender? A preponderance of self-described "drag things" (versus drag kings and queens) specializing in performances of non-human entities and appearing everywhere from stages in local gay bars to digital platforms like Instagram and YouTube would suggest so; however, when we speak of drag in academic literature, we hew closely to notions of drag as demonstrating gender performativity above all else. This collection therefore seeks to theorize a previously underrepresented form of drag performance that does not necessarily play with gender so much as it plays with humanness:We call this "posthuman drag."
Call for Papers on Aging and Ageism
To be published as a book by the University of Debrecen Press.
This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.
“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.
Rebels and Revels: A Virtual Symposium on the Theatre of the Middle East
A Virtual Symposium held throughout April 2021:
Sponsored by The International Program for Creative Collaboration and Research of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland
Thursday afternoons, April, 2021
Deadline for submission of 350 word abstracts and proposals February 1, 2021.
41st Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum: VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Keene State College
Friday and Saturday April 16-17, 2021
We are delighted to announce that the 41st Medieval and Renaissance Forum: Scent and Fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will take place virtually on Friday, April 16 and Saturday April 17, 2021.
We welcome abstracts (one page or less) or panel proposals that discuss smell and fragrance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Papers and sessions, however, need not be confined to this theme but may cover other aspects of medieval and Renaissance life, literature, languages, art, philosophy, theology, history, and music.
Reunion: The Dallas Review is currently accepting CNF, Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Translation, and Visual Art submissions for its eleventh issue. Submissions close on January 15, 2021, and Volume 11 issue will be published in Fall 2021.
Submissions link: <a href="https://reunionthedallasreview.submittable.com/submit"> https://reunionthedallasreview.submittable.com/submit </a>
General Formatting Guidelines:
Call For Book Chapters
Mahesh Dattani's Plays: Language and Culture
Editors:
Niladri R. Chatterjee (Department of English, University of Kalyani), Nibedita Mukherjee (Department of English, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, and Nilanjana Chatterjee (Department of English, Durgapur Govt. College)
Scope of the Book:
Dear Colleagues,
this to report that academic Journal "Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione" has opened a new call for paper for its three permanent sections: Essays, a miscellaneous collection of academic articles on different topics; Translation Theory and Practice, devoted to papers on Translation Studies as well as to the publication of original translations of literary texts (both poetry and prose), accompanied by a critical commentary; Reprints, presenting works that, however pivotal for the scientific community and the history of Literary Studies, have never been translated into Italian or are no longer available in their first printed editions.
59nd issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia (University of Wroclaw, Poland)
Deadline for submissions: April 4, 2021
Submissions are now being accepted to the 2021 edition of Anglica Wratislaviensia, an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually in print form as well as online. We welcome work that focuses on a wide spectrum of topics within linguistics, the English language and literature-oriented disciplines, literary and cultural studies, with focus on empirical and well as theoretical approaches.
Research articles are typically between 4,000 to 6,000 words.
Dear Colleagues,
this to report that academic Journal "Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione" has opened a new call for paper for its three permanent sections: Essays, a miscellaneous collection of academic articles on different topics; Translation Theory and Practice, devoted to papers on Translation Studies as well as to the publication of original translations of literary texts (both poetry and prose), accompanied by a critical commentary; Reprints, presenting works that, however pivotal for the scientific community and the history of Literary Studies, have never been translated into Italian or are no longer available in their first printed editions.
Preliminary book title: "Ramifications of War on Society"
Deadline for abstract submission: March 29, 2021
Acceptances of abstracts sent out: May 13, 2021
Manuscript submission: January 2022
To submit an essay for publication in the compilation book “Ramifications of War on Society” please email Anna Rindfleisch at anna.rindfleisch@kcl.ac.uk with an abstract (max 300 words) and brief bio.
CfP: ArtsPraxis Volume 8, Issue 1
ISSN: 1552-5236
ArtsPraxis Volume 8, Issue 1 looks to engage members of the global Educational Theatre community in dialogue around current research and practice. We welcome traditional academic research as well as narratives of practice. This call for papers is released in concert with the publication of ArtsPraxis Volume 7, Issues 2a & 2b. The submission deadline for Volume 8, Issue 1 is January 15, 2021.
ArtsPraxis Volume 7, Issue 2a: https://sites.google.com/nyu.edu/artspraxis/2020/volume-7-issue-2a
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 JANUARY 2021
Critical Concepts and Readings: English Literature GCSE.
Editors: Dr Kate Watson and Dr Sally O’Gorman
This original collection invites teachers and academics to contribute a book chapter on a GCSE text, applying a theory and considering a new and innovative aspect of the literary text.
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) 2021 Conference
Austin, TX
August 5-8, 2021
The ATHE Religion and Theatre Focus group invites current graduate students and/or independent scholars who have not presented at a major national conference to submit papers for the 2021 Emerging Scholars Panel.
The 2021 ATHE Conference theme:
RE: ATHE (Reclaim. Redesign. Revolt. Recover.)
The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring Medieval through Early Modern Studies, through the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit papers that offer insights and new ideas springing from the era of William Shakespeare. His plays are replete with the language, thoughts, and arts of the Renaissance and Western culture and represent an inexhaustible source for creative ideas and research.
New Directions in Much Ado About Nothing
The West Chester University Poetry Center
Call for Proposals
C.R.A.F.T.: West Chester University’s Virtual Poetry and Creative Arts Festival
April 7-10, 2021
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2021
The West Chester University Poetry Center is excited to announce this Call for Presentations for C.R.A.F.T.: West Chester University’s Virtual Poetry and Creative Arts Festival, April 7-10, 2021.The theme for our inaugural gathering is The Healing Power of Empathy. Molly Peacock will be our Keynote Speaker.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Stanley Cavell: A Retrospective
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Milan, September 23th - 24th 2021 (new dates)
Organizing institutions:
Department of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan; Triennale di Milano.
Organizers:
Raffaele Ariano (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele di Milano), Leonardo Caffo (NABA - Nuova accademia di belle arti di Milano; Fondazione Triennale di Milano).
Confirmed speakers:
Sandra Laugier – Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (keynote)
Stephen Mulhall – University of Oxford (keynote)
De Montfort University in Leicester, England, will be hosting on 22 April 2021 a virtual conference reflecting on the closure of theatres in Shakespeare's time and our own. We welcome papers on a range of responses to the closures, including those by writers (Shakespeare and others), playgoers, patrons, and civil and state authorities, some of whom welcomed and some lamented the loss of public theatre.
A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor
deadline for submissions:
February 15, 2021
contact email:
Call For Papers: A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor
Deadline (abstract): 15 January 2021
Deadline (full manuscript): 30 July 2021
Special Issue of Victorians Institute Journal:
Reimagining the Victorians
Seeking submissions for a Critical Insights volume on Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 under contract with Salem/Grey House Publishers. Known as being a satirical, anti-war novel that initiated the eponymous phrase regarding paradoxical situations, Catch-22 was originally published in 1961. Catch-22 is appreciated for its dark humor, use of flashbacks, contorted chronology, countercultural sensibilities, and bizarre language structures. With current trends and political climate considered, we will revisit this classic text for a contemporary audience.
CFP: “Theatre-Fiction”
Seeking proposals for an edited book of chapters on “theatre-fiction”, i.e. novels and stories about theatre.