theatre

FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

Forthcoming Special Issue on Stagecraft and Witchcraft

Call for articles

Contributions are sought from scholars working in French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian and English Studies for a Special Issue on the historical and literary intersections of stagecraft and witchcraft.

Modern Drama section

South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)

November 10-12, 2006

Charlotte, NC

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The Drama of the Pulitzer: Winners and Losers

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This session will explore aspects of the competition for the Pulitzer
Prize in Drama: What does it mean for a play to win the prize? What do
the nominations (and the controversies they sometimes generate) suggest
about the nature of the American theater? We encourage a full range of
approaches to and perspectives on the topic.

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By March 1, 2006, send 500-word abstracts or full papers to:

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Rob McDonald

Department of English and Fine Arts

Virginia Military Institute

CALL FOR PAPERS
Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory
Domestic Disturbances

CALL FOR PAPERS: THORNTON WILDER AS AMERICAN WRITER Special Session at
The American Literature Association 17th Annual Conference
May 25-28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Embarcadero Center
Sponsored by The Thornton Wilder Society

Possible Approaches:

Wilder and his works as products of American culture:

early life in Madison, WI; Berkeley, CA; Oberlin College; Yale.
teaching career at Lawrenceville School, NJ; University of Chicago; Harvard.
novels, plays, screenplays, essays, letters.

Analysis of novels and plays as they depict American characters in
American settings acting in American ways in accordance with American
values

WORD AND IMAGE: VISUAL DIALOGUES

Call for Papers

6th Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

February 16-17, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Michael Fried, Professor/Director of the Humanities Center and
Professor, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University

Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
University of York, England

Call for Papers: "Shrews" on the Renaissance Stage

Date: 26-27 May 2006
Location: University of York, England

This interdisciplinary conference will focus particularly on The Taming
of A Shrew; Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew; Fletcher, The Woman's
Prize; John Lacy, Sauny the Scott.
 
Speakers will include: Anna Bayman & George Southcombe (Oxford),
Michael Cordner (York), Holly Crocker (South Carolina), Laura Gowing
(King's London), Barbara Hodgdon (Michigan), Leah Marcus (Vanderbilt),
David Wootton (York).

St. Francis College is pleased to announce the publication of The Arthur
Miller Journal. Inaugural Issue, Spring 2006.

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The Arthur Miller Journal will provide a lasting legacy to Miller's
significant contribution to American drama. The journal will be
published twice yearly under the auspices of the English Department of
St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, in cooperation with the Arthur
Miller Society. We welcome essays on any aspect of Miller's life, work,
and career. Of particular interest for the first edition are essays that
evaluate the scope of Miller's eight decades of writing and his
connection to other playwrights. We also invite book, production, and
performance reviews.

The Marlowe Society of America solicits papers on any aspect of
Christopher Marlowe's plays or poetry (including performance-based
criticism) for an open-topic session to be held at the MLA Convention
(scheduled for New Orleans) in Dec. 2006. Send detailed abstracts or
papers of 15-minute reading length by e-mail, e-mail attachment, or hard
copy to Bruce Brandt, (Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu
<mailto:Bruce.Brandt_at_sdstate.edu> ) President, Marlowe Society of
America, English Dept., Box 504, South Dakota State University,
Brookings, SD 57007. Deadline: March 1, 2006.

12th Annual Southwest Graduate English Symposium
Arizona State University – February 24-26, 2006

(Re)Markable Identities: Confronting, Corrupting, and Conflating Cultural
Discourses
PANEL: EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE – CORRUPTING TIME, PLACE, AND AUDIENCE

Extended Deadline:

Call for Submissions: Articles-in-Progress Workshop

Theatre History Symposium
2006 Mid-America Theatre Conference
Allerton-Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chicago
March 2-5, 2006

Proposals must be received by December 1, 2005.

The Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison invites proposals of all kinds for our 6th annual
Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Conference. Copied below is this
year's call for proposals. Thank you!

Sincerely,
Bill Whitney
PhD Candidate, Department of Theatre and Drama
President, Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Organization
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Negotiating Boundaries: Print, Pedagogy, Performance

UW-Madison Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Conference
Call for proposals
April 8, 2006

Although the deadline for proposals has passed, later submissions will be
considered.

The Department of English and American Studies at Masaryk University,
Brno, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce an
International conference:

Shakespeare and His Collaborators over the Centuries

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Shakespeare Bulletin, a peer-reviewed journal for the study of
Shakespeare in performance, is pleased to announce that as of Spring
2006 it will be published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. The
editors invite submissions on a wide variety of performance-related
topics. Theatre and book reviews are assigned; articles may be submitted
electronically to the general editor. Inquiries may be made to any one
of the editors: Andrew Hartley (General Editor) sbeditor_at_email.uncc.edu;
Jeremy Lopez (Theatre Review Editor) jeremy.lopez_at_utoronto.ca; Kirk
Melnikoff (Film Editor) kbmelnik_at_email.uncc.edu; Genevieve Love (Book
Review Editor) glove_at_coloradocollege.edu.

Games, Education, and Theatre/Performance