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  Platform
  Postgraduate e-Journal of Theatre & Performing Arts
  Platform is an electronic journal devoted to postgraduates, postdoctoral researchers, and entry-level academics in the fields of theatre and performing arts. Platform is run by postgraduates for postgraduates, and is based at the Department of Drama, Royal Holloway, University of London.
   
  The first issue of Platform is now online!
   
  Call for Papers
   
  We invite submissions for the second issue of Platform. The pivotal theme is "Theatres of Resistance." Given the wide-ranging and confrontational nature of the topic, we welcome papers that explore a variety of issues such as the following:
  
   Politics and performance

Call for Papers
"Non-Standard Forms of Contemporary Drama and Theatre"
University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 17-20, 2007

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)
announces its 16th Annual Conference (May 17-20, 2007). It will be
organized by the Chair of English Literature at the University of
Heidelberg and held at a conference venue in the town centre of Heidelberg.

  * ** 01.For a popular panel of the New Jersey College English
Association. While papers are, of course, expected to be of a
professional, academic nature, a true spirit of informality is expected
to be a mainstay of this panel. Papers must adhere to a 12 minute
reading, thereby leaving time for audience participation. Please eMail
an abstract of 250 words, plus a one-sheet Curriculum Vita to Dr.Ted
Price: pricet_at_mail.montclair.edu by Thursday December 22, 2006.*

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Call for papers re: Ana Caro's *Valor, agravio y mujer,* especially =
those focusing on its recent production at Washington's GALA Theater =
under the direction of Hugo Medrano. Please send abstracts by Friday =
Nov. 26th to Maryrica Ortiz Lottman, Assistant Professor of Spanish, =
UNC-Charlotte. mlottman_at_email.uncc.edu

CFP: The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding Communities—Past and
Present (opening roundtable)

"Sore Spots": The 2007 Religion and Theatre Preconference
New Orleans, July 24-25, 2007

ATHE's Religion and Theatre Focus Group will open its preconference with a
roundtable entitled "The Role of Religious Performance in Rebuilding
Communities—Past and Present." Participants will offer a 5-10 minute
presentation on a particular instance when religious performance played a
role in rebuilding or regenerating community. Participants will then engage
in a moderate discussion and Q&A with all preconference attendees.

The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
invites paper submissions for its 5th annual
preconference, entitled "Regeneration and Return:
Performance Studies in New Orleans," to take place
July 25-26. As generations of performance studies
scholars turn – and return – to New Orleans, we seek a
variety of proposals that address the panel topic
described below. While the city of New Orleans is
central to many of the questions presented here, we
welcome scholarship that employs various methodologies
and geographic points of entry.

Panel #2: Staging Race, Staging Place: The Local and
the Diasporic

I am seeking proposals for 10-minute presentations on the topic of women
in August Wilson's cycle of plays. I hope to put together a roundtable
for ALA in Boston (May 24-27, 2007) on the often-unappreciated role
women play in Wilson's depiction of twentieth-century African American
experience.

Please send abstracts of approximately 200 words to
beaulieea_at_appstate.edu by December 1, 2006. I would like to include
short papers on 6 or 7 of Wilson's plays, as well as time for discussion
among panelists and audience members.

Manuscripts from 5,000 to 10,000 words that reflect on August Wilson's
legacy and contribution to American culture are invited for a special
issue of College Literature. The editors—Cynthia Caywood and Carlton
Floyd of the University of San Diego and Marilyn Elkins of California
State University at Los Angeles—welcome contributions from all
disciplines that engage the full complexity of Wilson's work. We
encourage contributors to explore his work in a variety of ways: for
example, Wilson and history, Wilson and performance, performance
history, Wilson and women, Wilson and music, Wilson and folkways,
Wilson and place, Wilson and the migration narrative, Wilson and the

CFP: LATINO/A FOCUS GROUP DEBUT PANEL
The Latino/a Focus Group of the Association
for Theatre in Higher Education
(ATHE) invites submissions for its competitively selected Debut
Panel from
scholars who have not yet published articles or presented at
a national
conference. The postmark deadline for submissions is February 1, 2007.
Papers should be an appropriate length for a fifteen-minute presentation
(typically about eight pages) and address Latino/a American or Latin
American subject matter. Transnational, comparative, and diasporic
approaches are welcome.

CFP: Journal of Drama Studies (11/30/06); journal issue)

Journal of Drama Studies (biannual)

Call For Submissions

Though open to world drama from any period, provided written/translated in English, submissions are invited on the Anglo-American drama and the Modern European Drama.

Submission Guidelines:

Preferred length of essays is 8-15 pages (double spaced, Times New Roman, Font 12) typed in MS-Word format. Follow MLA style, with endnotes and work cited at the end of the paper.

The papers will be peer reviewed by the experts.

Send one hard copy and a CD of your complete submission.

Provide a bibliographical headnote to be included in the list of contributors.

Call for papers - Victorian Dramas Interdisciplinary Conference to be held =20
at the University of Worcester on Jan 27th 2007. Keynote speakers: Kate Newe=
y, =20
Jackie Bratton & David Mayer. Proposals for 20min papers on any aspect of=20
Victorian Drama, especially gesture, e-resources, adaptations, publishing=20
practices, melodrama, themed papers reflecting the resources in The Victori=
an=20
Plays Project. For more details visit _www.worc.ac.uk/victorian_=20
(http://www.worc.ac.uk/victorian) or e-mail _k.mattacks@worc.ac.uk_=20

CFP: FILM EXHIBITION AND THEATER PRESERVATION

The 28th Annual Meeting of the SW/TX PCA/ACA
February 14â€"17, 2007
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Join a group that has gathered annually since 2000 to discuss research
accomplishments for the year and to participate in an area that always welcomes
newcomers with fresh ideas on exhibition history and the future of film
exhibition today, as well as the efforts of theatre preservationists who save
history for all us. The focus, then, is the history and future of film exhibition
as well as the good work of those who save movie theatres for all of us to
enjoy.

13th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
  The Violent (Re)turn to Ethics?: Implications, Complications, and Situations
  February 15-17, 2006
  Arizona State University—Tempe Arizona
     
  "Angry Young (Wo)Men": Theatrical Violence as Ethical Debate

In late 1995, two significant events changed the theatrical landscape:
John Osborne (Look Back in
Anger) died, and Sarah Kane's play Blasted premiered at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. The timing
was somewhat serendipitous—as one of the original "Angry Young Men"
left this world, one of the "New
Brutalists" made her mark on it.

Paper proposals are sought for the following seminar at the American
Comparative Literature Association conference on Trans, Pan, Intra: Cultures
in Contact, to be held in Puebla, Mexico, April 19-22:

"Missing Pieces: Theatre, Performance and Circulation in the Americas"

Seminar Organizers:
Sarah J. Townsend, NYU
Kahlil Chaar, NYU