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ArtsPraxis Volume 6, Issue 1

STR 2019: Tara Building, Mary Immaculate College, University of LimerickMay 10th & 11th 2019 Call For Papers: Conversations Through Time: Intersectional, Intergenerational, Interdisciplinary Keynote Speakers:Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, Ulster UniversityDr. Emilie Pine, University College Dublin Theatre and performance practices have often been called upon as ways to understand contemporary discourses. Now more than ever academics and theatremakers need to use art and the analyses of various mediums to explore and explain the world in which we live.

Between Myth and Memory: Contemporary Politics and the Performance of History

An interdisciplinary one-day symposium 

— Call for Papers —

 25 April 2019

Centre for Performance and Urban Living, University of Surrey, UK

The University of Surrey can be reached within 30 minutes by train from central London.

Keynote: Dr. Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Faculty of Foreign Languages (Alfa BK University in Belgrade) is glad to announce its Eighth International Conference on Language and Literary Studies, which will be held on 24–25 May, 2019.

For the eighth issue of our annual conference, we hope to gather scholars, teachers and professionals whose scientific research focuses on the study of  

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, PLAY AND GAMES

Papers will consider how American theatre and drama of any period addresses empathy as part of the human experience. What notions of empathy are sedimented into traditional form(s) and/or by what practices do American plays re-humanize compassion for “the other?” Do American plays invite us to recognize “the other” in ourselves? How might empathy, compassion, and humanism help us to ask new questions regarding American theatre’s past, present, and future - such as how American plays refashion Classical ideas about dramatic catharsis? Conversely, panelists might pursue lines of inquiry, Brechtian or otherwise, which ask readers and audiences to consider a politicized theatrical “awakening” as an empathetic act.

2019 Shaw Symposium 

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

15-17 August 2019

Otukpa: A Journal of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Federal University, Otuoke.

Call for Papers.

Interested scholars, researchers and practitioners in the broad areas of the humanities and social sciences are hereby invited to submit articles for review and possible publication in Volume 1, Nos. 1&2 of Otukpa. The volume will be published in April,  2019.

Per(form)ance: A Graduate Symposium on Performance and Form

Harvard University Theatre and Performance Colloquium

April 26, 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Harvard University Theater and Performance Colloquium seeks fifteen-minute papers from graduate students for a symposium on the topic of “performance and form.” We will gather during the day on Friday, April 26th to share work and work-in-progress. Papers will be grouped into panels of three or four participants by topic.

2nd Call for Papers
2019 Shakespearean Theatre Conference:
“Festival and Festivity”

The New York Mets in Popular Culture

McFarland and Company invites baseball writers to contribute abstracts for an essay collection presently titled The New York Mets in Popular Culture.

Writers are encouraged to submit abstracts on the following topics or choose their own. 

The Wilkie Collins Journal

Special issue: Neo-Victorian Collins

Guest editors: Jessica Cox (Brunel University) and Claire O’Callaghan (Loughborough University)

THEATRE ANNUALA Journal of Theatre and Performance of the Americas

Call for Articles

2019 Issue

Textualities of American Drama: What are the textual forms of American drama? Dramatic works produced during the nineteenth century (an age largely dominated by spectacular melodrama) and the early twentieth century (an era that turned imperfectly to dramatic realism) are often studied according to their production histories rather than their circulation as printed play texts. But the publication of dramatic texts was a significant subplot of the expanding publishing industry throughout the United States. How did the making and consumption of plays in print shape the literary status of American drama?

From the Nāṭyaśāstra or Aristotle’s Poetics to social media posts or the new online review aggregators, discourses about theater have shaped the course of the art’s evolution, reflecting and influencing aesthetics, modes of production and models of social and political involvement.

The emergence and spread of “practice as”, “practice-led” or “practice-based” research paradigms, the growing interest for the performative function of arts archives, the fluidization and democratization of critical discourses, as well as the ripple effect of the performative turn define, nowadays, a climate in which theory and practice intermingle, seemingly re-bridging the gap between artists and scholars, between creators, historians and critics.