theatre

IFTR Working Group, Performance, Religion and Spirituality

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the group’s meeting at the IFTR conference Belgrade, Serbia, 9-13 July 2018

Migration, Exchange, Identity and the Other

in Performance, Religion and Spirituality

The Eugene O’Neill Society
http://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/

Call for Papers
Two Conference Panels on Eugene O’Neill

American Literature Association Conference
San Francisco: May 24-27, 2018
http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference/

Deadline for submitting proposals for papers for Eugene O’Neill panels: January 15, 2018

The Society for Contemporary Literature (SCL) is a group dedicated to the study of literature of the last 25 years. SCL seeks, for ALA 2018 in San Francisco, papers that explore the intersection of truth telling and literary art in 21st-century American literature. As pressing concerns about real politics, justice, and representation loom large in the culture, and as Common Core standards actively encourage K-12 teachers to engage fiction a bit less and nonfiction a bit more, a clear and contemporary discourse on how literary art modulates and indwells all kinds of expression is becoming more and more necessary to scholars and teachers of literature.

The editors of The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies are now soliciting article and review submissions for Issue #17, due to be published in Autumn 2018. 

The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (ISSN 2009-0374) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, open-access, electronic publication dedicated to the study of gothic and horror literature, film, new media, and television.

We are currently seeking submissions of articles and reviews that deal with any aspect of gothic and horror studies, including (but not limited to) literature, film, television, theatre, art and architecture, music, and new media. Please note that we cannot include pictures or sound files with articles or reviews.

Domestic spaces lay at the centre of the lives of early modern English men and women.  Yet their liminality has often been under-investigated, if not underestimated, by scholars.  On the one hand, households served as a hubbub of familial and filial activity (housewarmings, births, conventicles, fast/feast days and reading groups), on the other hand as sites of the foreign and fatal (burglaries, squatting, murders, possessions, and devastating fires).  The house was as permeable as it was penetrable.  This despite attempts to ward off or perturb would be intruders: via witches’ marks, locks, bars, fences, guard dogs, community patrols and the ‘watch’.

DISCOVERIES is the peer-reviewed online academic newletter of the South Central Renaissance Conference, an interdisciplinary association of Renaissance scholars with membership drawn primarily from North America and Europe.  DISCOVERIES publishes original scholarship of up to 3000 words in length and book reviews on subjects of interest to the membership.

DISCOVERIES celebrates the launch of its revised, codified and indexed format with a Special Topic issue dedicated to the theme of  “the Seen and the Unseen”:

Poetry in Motion: Spoken Word Poetry and What It Means Today

Conference Organiser:         Paul McNamara

Contact Email:                      Paul.McNamara@mic.ul.ie

Title:                                     Poetry in Motion: Spoken Word Poetry and What It Means

                                             Today

Conference Location:           Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland

Date of Conference:             26th of April 2018

#PoetryInMotion18

TEACHING SHAKESPEARE IN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM [Deadline Extended!]

February 23rd and 24th, 2018
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

This conference invites papers that address teaching Shakespeare to non-English majors, whether those non-majors are students or member of local communities. We encourage papers from both academic and non-academic settings, including papers that consider dominant teaching philosophies and praxes currently in use in the university classroom and presentations considering various outreach programs. Papers may address any of the following:

Canadian Association for Theatre Research / L’association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale (CATR/ACRT)

Kingston, Ontario @ Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Queen’s University

Tuesday 29 May – Friday 1 June 2018

Call for Papers

DEADLINE 8 DECEMBER 2017

La version française suit.

Fieldwork: Excavations and Exchanges in Drama, Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies

 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

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

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):

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.

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.