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CFP: Reconsidering the Media Histories of Girls in Uniform.
Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies (Special Issue)
Guest Editors: Ilinca Iurascu (University of British Columbia); Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia); Franziska Schößler (Universität Trier)
Call for Papers for MELUS Special Issue:
New Directions in Irish American Literature and Culture
Guest Editor: James Byrne
Deadline for Submissions: 15 April 2018
Anticipated Publication: 2019
Call for Abstracts – ATHE 2018 –Panel Proposal
AMERICA ONLINE: (WEB)SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE
A potential Multidisciplinary Panel for
Performance Studies Focus Group and American Theatre and Drama Society
Victorian Animals
Victorian Popular Fiction Association and Liverpool John Moores University Study Day
Saturday 18th November 2017
Aldham Roberts Library, Liverpool John Moores University
9.30 – 10.00: Registration and Welcome
Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui solicits proposals for articles in French or English on Beckett’s global and political reach. More than the question of Beckett’s international influence, we ask scholars to consider how Beckett’s work provides aesthetic models for artists seeking to address political conflict, to break the straightjacket of imposed artistic forms, or to represent forms of human violence. Does Beckett’s work help or hinder artists in formulating a political aesthetic or navigating specific political demands and situations? Does Beckett’s work inform conceptions of committed art?
Call for Abstracts on “New Directions on Improvisation”
For the 2018 Comparative Drama Conference, there will be a sub-theme of improv running through the three days. On Thursday night we will be attending an improv performance at SAK Comedy Lab. On Saturday afternoon there will be a plenary dedicated to improv. To round out the conference, we invite papers for either a panel (or if we get enough interest a round table) on new directions in improv, as we look to consider how improv pushes boundaries within performance, the process of dramatic creation, and the text.
Some possible topics to consider (but definitely not limited to):
Performing Greece III: The Third International Conference on Contemporary Greek Theatre
9 December 2017
School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Angeliki Varakis-Martin (University of Kent)
In Shakespeare’s works characters are frequently banished from court, from the city or their country. Some move voluntary and many make their first appearance with a history of migration. Some yearn for their home, some are glad to escape persecution. Some bemoan the loss of their identity, some embrace a new identity abroad. People are exiled for various reasons, banished from another’s present, from a place, or from memory. Exile may mean a new chance or certain death. Migrants are greeted with hope, with fear, with fierce rejection. In a more abstract sense, Shakespeare’s plays and poems themselves became migrant texts as they were performed by travelling players or otherwise transmitted across time and space.
With their 2016 production of Spring Awakening, Deaf West Theatre was celebrated for their ongoing revolutionary approaches towards musical theatre, putting deaf and hearing actors on stage together, adapting stories and characters in Deaf cultural contexts, and making diversity and accessibility top priorities both on- and off-stage. The production was also the first Broadway show to feature an actor in a wheelchair, Ali Stroker.
The Plays of Simon Stephens
The 42nd Comparative Drama Conference will feature Simon Stephens as its Keynote Speaker on April 6, 2018 and in honor of his appearance we will offer panels on his plays.
While we welcome papers on any aspect of Stephens’s plays, some possible topics to explore include:
Teaching Simon Stephens in the classroom
Productions of Simon Stephens’s works
Simon Stephens as an adapter (Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, A Doll’s House, The Seagull)
Comparing Pornography (Stephens’s 7/7 play) to 9/11 plays
Politics in the plays of Simon Stephens
Proposal Guidelines