theatre

The New England Theatre Conference is soliciting papers for its 65th annual convention that address this year’s theme, “Theatre is Alive! New Approaches, Ideas, and Practices Keeping Theatre Relevant Today.” The Convention will be held in Westford, MA, the weekend of October 28-30, 2016. All papers that address the convention theme are encouraged and welcome.

Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare Using Non-traditional Texts

Performance philosophy has been in development for the past decade as an interdisciplinary approach to performance studies. The contemporary global reality and political-economic situations have called forth performances that operate within new frames of reference and use new technologies. Understanding the complex politics of these new performances requires a fresh theorizing, a specifically contemporary philosophy of performance. The ‘crossover’ of performance and philosophy hybridizes the spaces between and around the two ‘conceptual personae’ (Deleuze and Guattari). The present areas of conceptual interrogation include radical interventionist studies of existing philosophies to place performance into perspective.

In Celebration of the 1916 Easter Rising: Art, Articulation, Inspiration  

A one-day conference on Friday, October 21, 2016, at Seton Hall University, South Orange NJ 

Building a Nation: the Effects of Irish Nationalism on Traditional Dance, Music, and Lyric Poetry 

Chair: Marta Deyrup 

Call for Papers 

“Reviving History: Contemporary Representations of “The Past” on Page, Stage, and Screen”

Guest edited special issue of The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Vol. 4 Issue 2 (June 2017)

Michael Kula, University of Washington, Tacoma

As our daily lives have grown more and more dominated by technology and by a corresponding fascination with the “new,” there’s been a counter movement interested in reexamining the ways of “the past.”  Whether it is handmade books, craft-made pickles, vintage automobiles, or handlebar mustaches, indeed the cliché often seems true now: what’s old is new again.