theatre

Performance and Spirituality=20
The Journal of the Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality=
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CFP: "Delineating the Field": Submission Deadline, May 15, 2007.=20
(The Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality is an emerging=
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research center that operates in association with the Martin E. Segal Theat=
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Center of The Graduate Center, of the City University of New York.)=20
Performance and Spirituality=E2=80=94a new peer-reviewed, annually-published=
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journal dedicated to examining intersections of new and alternative forms o=
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spirituality/religion and theatre/performance=E2=80=94is seeking articles fo=
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CFP for a special session at MLA 2007 Chicago on
"George Bernard Shaw and History"

Call For Papers

The first annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference at George
Mason University will interrogate the politics of cultural programming
in public spaces.

Institutions within the conference purview include: museums, festivals,
the performing arts, sporting events, multicultural and/or ethnically
specific celebrations, gigs and club nights, and tourist spectacles. Of
special interest is the menu of activities available in specific
localities at any given moment: Of what is this menu comprised? To whom
is it offered? And at what cost?

Questions to be considered may include but are not limited to:

         Call for Papers for SHAW 28: "Shaw and War." SHAW is "The
Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies" and is published in hard bound in the
Fall. Below the Guest Editor for Volume 28 describes the sorts of
papers she is looking for. Deadline May 15, 2007.

SHAW 28
Shaw and War
Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Guest Editor

How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
 Second call for papers for Journeys Across Media 2007 postgraduate
conference. Please feel free to forward to any early career researchers
or postgraduate students researching film, theatre, television or new
media.
SEE - HEAR - FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker - Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press - 'How to

Journal of Interactive Drama
Immediate Need for Fast-Track Submissions

The current issue of the Journal of Interactive Drama has space for up to two immediate submissions. See http://www.rpg.net/larp/journal/index.html for more information about the journal. The journal considers new submissions at any time but we have an immediate need for pieces for the current issue. Submissions within the next week will be fast-tracked for immediate editorial vetting.

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Journal of Interactive Drama

Gender and Space in the Theater

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
Malappropriation Nation, the University of California, Riverside's
fourteenth annual graduate humanities conference on April 6-7, 2007.

Literary scholars are invited to submit an article for the second special
issue of the Journal of Literary Disability (JLd), which will be entitled
Disability and the Dialectic of Dependency.

Call for submissions to a special topics panel devoted to Hungarian Studies
at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, October 4-6, 2007.
The topic for this panel is open and all and any critical approaches to
Hungarian themes are encouraged for 15-20 minutes long presentations. Some
possible themes but not restricted to:

-Hungarian film studies

-race and identity in Hungary before and after WWII

-the Hungarian Medieval thought in the European context

-Shakespeare on the Hungarian stage

-gender studies: history and context in post-Communism

-new directions in the Hungarian literary scene

-Hungarian studies and culture beyond the border

Alternatives Within the Mainstream II: Queer Theatre in Postwar Britain=20
Critics had been invited to write chapters for a critical study of=20
contemporary British post-war queer theatre. The focus is on bi, trans, gay=
, lesbian=20
identities as represented on the British stage. Keeping in mind that queer=20
identities are fluid and always in a state of flux, defying definitions and=
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binary oppositions, articles were invited which examine these identities as=
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represented in British drama since 1950.=20
A few of the topics which have been covered:=20
Lesbian theatre=20
Black lesbian theatre [Black in this anthology includes Asian]=20
Gay theatre=20

Papers are solicited for a collection of critical essays tentatively titled: Crowned with Laurel: Critical Essays on African American Pulitzer Prize Wining Literature . This collection of essays will examine eleven works by African Americans that have won the country's most prestigious award. Those works are:
   
  1950: Poetry—Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
  1970: Drama—No Place to Be Somebody by Charles Gordone
  1978: Fiction—Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  1982: Drama—A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller
  1983: Fiction—The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  1987: Fiction—Fences by August Wilson
  1987: Poetry—Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
  1988: Fiction—Beloved by Toni Morrison

   
  Whose Play is it Anyway?:
                 Translations/Adaptations/Versions
In a very real sense, every live staging of a printed play could theoretically be considered an adaptation in its performance.

The Drama section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) is
accepting papers on the following topic: =20

Displacing the Stage

This section welcomes essays on the Protean nature of theatre, the
definition of theatre, theatrical events outside of the traditional
theatre space, the use of history, current events, popular culture, and
technology in plays both now and in the past, theatre and political
activism, politics as theatre, theatre's future, and theatre's effects
on "the real" world. Send 50-word abstracts, contact information
(preferred email, address, and phone) to Ann C. Hall,
halla_at_ohiodominican by April 16, 2007. =20

CFP: Bodies in Motion, Languages in Motion: An Interdisciplinary Forum
(03/30/07-03/31/07)

Call For Papers
11th Annual Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies
Friday, March 30 & Saturday, March 31, 2007

Bodies in Motion, Languages in Motion:
An Interdisciplinary Forum

A graduate symposium co-sponsored by the Department of French & Italian and
the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities.