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For the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s ninth annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference, to be held on March 17th and 18th, 2017, we invite proposals for 20-minute discussions on performance and/or space; whether you are exploring the works of Shakespeare, detailing a performance art piece, or applying the works of Judith Butler to a text, we are open to wide variety of interpretations of this theme. Please share your 200­ word paper or poster proposals with us at uncg.egsa.2017@gmail.com by the December 31 deadline. 

TheatreForum: International Theatre Journal is publishing a special section on disability and performance in its upcoming issue.  We publish twice a year with bold color photographs, new plays, and articles on innovative and avant-garde stage performances. This fall we are doing a special section on disability on stage. We are looking for 1,000-1,400 word articles on recent theatrical pieces featuring performers with disabilities. Please contact jdorwart@ucsd.edu if you are interested in writing something. Deadline is October 28, 2016. We pay for work we publish. Below are links to some performances we would love to have covered:

Southeastern Theatre Conference

History/Theory/Criticism/Literature Committee

Call for Papers for 2017 Young Scholars Award

About the Award:

This issue would like to explore the relationship between Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, that of Shakespeare but also his contemporaries, and the representation of Africa, or, from a contextual viewpoint, the perception of the African continent in early modern England. The issue will also discuss 19th-21st c. re-writings, appropriations and adaptations of Shakespeare by African and African-American writers, stage directors and film directors.

Proposals may discuss, among other issues:

Since the advent of new historicism and the later development of cultural materialism, politics have been a topic of interest in early modern literature, and recent studies have asked us to conceive of them in new and broader ways, whether they be environmental, ecological, or cognitive, and to focus on different and overlooked outlets, such as pamphlets, free speech, or emotions.

This panel defines politics as an implementation or projection of governance—by a monarch in a kingdom, the head of a household in a domicile, etc.—and aims to assess early modern literature’s ability to present a wide scope of competing politics or political relations by offering the interpretation and/or voicing of plural or alternate realities.