CALL FOR PROPOSALS (BOOK) Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away Editor: Judith Rudakoff Abstracts Due June 30 “Suggested by a friend: ‘If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” This tweet by […]
CALL FOR PAPERS Let the Sun Shine In: American Theatre, Protest and Censorship An international conference co-sponsored by the American Theatre & Drama Society and the Eccles Centre for American Studies https://www.atds.org/ https://www.bl.uk/eccles-centre October 26-27, 2018 British Library, London (UK) Keynote speakers: Prof. Ramón Espejo Romero, Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) Dr. Marlis Schweitzer, York University (Canada) In […]
Please see CFP below for the guaranteed ATDS panel(s) at the 2018 conference of our affiliate organization, the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, in Denver, Colorado, November 7-11, 2018. If interested, please send paper title and abstract (250-300 words) to Cheryl Black, BlackC@missouri.edu by April 25. The conference theme is “Resistance and Recovery Across the Americas” For more […]
“Sites of Performance and Protest: Dramaturging Public Space in Boston” Session Chair: LaRonika Thomas, Loyola University Maryland & University of Maryland, College Park Panel Description: Panelists dramaturg the city of Boston through a series of site visits and responses to public spaces of protest in Boston. Building off of last year’s panel on “Dramaturgies of […]
The Revolution: 1968 & the Politics of the Arts in the United States Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès November 22, 2018 Symposium cosponsored by CAS EA 801 (UT2J) and EMMA (Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3) Organized by Zachary Baqué, Claude Chastagner, Emeline Jouve 50 years after 1968, a key year in the history of the world and […]
Call for Papers Special Issue of Theatre Survey Performing Girlhoods Marlis Schweitzer, Associate Editor Theatre Survey invites submissions for a special issue on performing girlhoods. Taking a cue from girlhood studies, this issue aims to investigate theatre’s role in the lived experiences of those who identify as girls (including trans individuals), while also analyzing […]
The editors of Theatre Topics are pleased to announce a call for submissions to the journal’s upcoming Special Issue on graduate education. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2018. Early submissions are encouraged. Since the economic crisis of 2008, tenure-stream academic positions in the arts and humanities have declined sharply, graduate student debt continues […]
ATDS and MLA Chicago 3-6 January 2019 “American Drama’s Ethical Transactions” This panel will consider how twentieth century American plays define, operationalize, register, and/or critique ethical discourse. Is there an “ethics” of the twentieth century play? What people, places, and things are left out of this ethical discourse? For example, in asking ethical […]
The 37th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival and Conference, May 9-12, 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS Papers are invited on the films and plays of William Inge, and/or the works of our 2018 honoree Carlyle Brown, designed for a 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. A wide variety of perspectives and themes are encouraged. Both Brown […]
Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium May 3-4, 2018 Conference Theme: Community Outreach and the Arts Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter Michael John Garcés, Cornerstone Theatre Company The Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium is seeking abstracts for papers for our 12th Annual gathering of theatre scholars. This year’s theme is “Community Outreach and the Arts.” PTRS is seeking papers […]
National Endowments for the Arts Institute on Digital Technologies in Theatre and Performance Studies June 17-29, 2018 University of Georgia (Athens, GA) Application Deadline: March 1, 2018 The institute is for college and university faculty would like to integrate digital technologies into their curricula, and who would like to gain a deeper understanding of the technologies and techniques to make […]
ATDS and MLA Chicago, 3-6 January 2019 “American Drama’s Ethical Transactions” This panel will consider how twentieth century American plays define, operationalize, register, and/or critique ethical discourse. Is there an “ethics” of the twentieth century play? What people, places, and things are left out of this ethical discourse? For example, in asking ethical questions, some […]