theatre

The Performance and Performativity of Violence

An interdisciplinary conference hosted by The Performance of the Real Research Theme

The University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 19-21 June, 2017

Keynotes:

Professor Bruce Johnson (Macquarie University, Australia and University of Turku, Finland)

Dr Lisa Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster, Ireland)

“The philosophy of lying can be full of dark corners” (Saint Augustine, On Lying, 395 A.D.). Over time, in all spheres of the human experience, the attempts to define the concept of ‘lying’ have been numerous and have resulted in a dichotomous relationship with either ‘truth’ or ‘reality’. Both elusive and tempting, lying is a mode of communicate and influence others’ beliefs and behaviours which reveals itself in a wide range of forms: imagination, creation, invention, artifice, (dis)simulation, omission, pretence, change, disfiguration, deception, forgery, manipulation, etc.

ImpressionsA Bi-Annual Refereed Journal of English StudiesISSN 0974-892X
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The latest issue of Impressions  (Vol. XI, Issue I, January 2017) is now accessible at www.impressions.org.in.

Call for Submissions for Volume Three of New Perspectives in Edward Albee Society, the Official Publication of the Edward Albee Society. (Published annually by Brill from which Volume One, Edward Albee and Absurdism, is now available)

Topic: Edward Albee as Dramatic and Theatrical Innovator

We are seeking essays that explore Albee’s plays for innovations in theatrical style, dramatic structure, creation of great characters (from both a performance and observation of human behavior perspective), and subject matter (e.g., mistreatment of the elderly, reversal of gender roles in conventional marriage, death and dying).

Call for Proposals: 

Defiant Embodiments in Theatre, Sport, and Performance

A One-Day Symposium and Workshop / TaPRA Performance and the Body Working Group Interim Event, co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

29 April 2017, Brunel University London, Indoor Athletic Centre 

Call Deadline: 20 March 2017

Keynote Presentation: Kira O’Reilly, live artist and Lecturer in Ecology and Contemporary Performance, Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.