Call
for papers (Conferences/ Publications)
CONFERENCES
TDR:The Drama Review,
the journal of Performance Studies, is holding a student essay contest
with a $500 cash prize for the winning essay. Details of the contest and
submission information is available at MIT Press.
Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester
presents: Casting Doubt A Graduate Conference
Friday, April 4 & Saturday, April 5, 2003
Casting Doubt is an interdisciplinary graduate student conference exploring
the phenomena of calling things into question. It seeks to understand
the multiple dimensions of doubting as a lived reality, an historical
moment, a liminal state, a political position, and an ethical imperative.
Responding both to an official cultural climate which vehemently chastises
voices of dissent, and to a growing intellectual interest in emotional
experiences of all kinds, this conference seeks to pry open and discover
spaces of doubt in an effort to consider their multiple meanings,
modes, aesthetics, and impacts. Casting Doubt can then be approached
as a timely, collective meditation on the potential value of uncertainty.
We invite proposals from across disciplines, research interests, and
theoretical persuasions. Possible areas of inquiry might include, but
are not limited to:
Radical Doubt
Visualizing Doubt
Suspicious Minds & Reasonable Doubt
Crisis of Doubt
Doubting the Normal
Doubt and Knowledge
Doubtful Science
Historical Doubts
Self Doubt
Philosophy of Doubt
Ethnography of Everyday Doubt
Performing Doubt: Hoaxes, Frauds & Cons
***DEADLINE for submissions: JANUARY 12, 2003***
Submissions for 20-minute papers should be in abstract form (250- 500
words). A self-addressed stamped envelope must accompany all submissions
requiring return. Please include e-mail addresses with all submissions
whenever possible.
Abstracts and inquiries may be sent via e-mail to: vcsconf@mail.rochester.edu
Printed submissions should be posted to: Organizing Committee for "Casting
Doubt"
c/o Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Box 270456
Rochester, NY
14627-0456
About
the program
The Program in Visual and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary graduate
program at the University of Rochester. Its focus is visual culture
and critical theory; the Departments and Programs of Art and Art History,
English, Film Studies, Anthropology, History, and Modern Languages and
Cultures, as well as the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies,
constitute its academic base.
Web site: http://www.rochester.edu/college/AAH/
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The
Human Body- A Universal Sign
Semantics of the Human Body in Performing Arts, Theatre and Dance, Philosophy
and Cultural Anthropology Psychology
Bridging Art with Science in Humanities
Kraków, Poland, 7-12 April 2003
Drama Department, Institute for Polish Studies, the Jagiellonian University
in Krakow,
In collaboration with FIRT/ IFTR (International Federation for Theatre
Research) jointly with Centre of Japanese Art and Technology Manggha
in Krakow, Centre of Modern Art. ‘Solvay’, the Physical Theatre
In the age of gene engineering, cloning, robotization, cyborgs and progressing
dehumanization of the human body the question about unchangeable and
universal human identity emerges.
Who wo/man is in his/her essence and what are their limits and infinite
potential ?
The microcosm reflecting macrocosm has been expressing himself/herself
through the icon of the body and
its language, gestures and movements. The historical, social and national
costume vary from century to century, from country to country but the
physical structure and material substance, linked with itsspiritual
endowment, remains.
Symmetry and verticality create the structure of the eternally unalterable
sign of the mankind – the human
body.
The idea of the Conference is to create a Forum for discussion among
scholars and artists that do research Into the body related issues,
deal with historical semantics of the body and, finally, investigate
body-mind links, self-awareness and self-identity in perspective of
the lived body.
The Conference is going to take place within the larger Project under
the same title. Thus in the period from 7th to 12th April 2003 the Conference
will combine with workshops on human movement together with night performances
presenting the modern European and Japanese physical theatre. Maciej
Rusinek, a renowned Polish Photographer, is going to present his photographic
exhibition on Japanese butoh at Centre of Japanese Art and Technology
Manggha.
The Conference will be held in the historical interiors of the Jagiellonian
University founded in 1364.
The Conference wants to explore all possible aspects of the body related
issues in order to grasp
The complex substance of the human being in his/her corporeality.
This holds true for the following areas :
- Principles underlying human movement
- Symbolism of the human body
- The cultural body
- The sacred body versus the profane body
- Human awareness through movement
- Body-mind links
- Gender and the human body
- The memory of the human body
- The thinking body
- The microcosm and the macrocosm
The
theme of the Conference will be explored in plenary lectures by invited
guests together with papers in parallel sessions and posters.
Papers are invited. We welcome proposals dealing with the above issues
on the ground of performing arts, cultural memory, cultural anthropology,
psychology and movement therapy.
All proposals should contain: author, title, 200-300 – word –abstract,
intended audience (general congress, New Researchers’ Forum, sessions,
posters) indication of technical facilities, brief biographical note
on the author, full postal address, fax number and e-mail address.
Please, send, a 200-300 –word-proposal by e-mail to Wiesna Mond-Kozowska
(wiesnamond@wp.pl)
Drama Department, Institute for Polish Studies, the Jagiellonian University
31-007 Krakow, ul.Gołębia 16, Poland
fax:+48/12/4292865
Deadline for proposals is 30thNovember 2002
For details contact body@jordan.pl
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Graduate
Student Conference on Twentieth-Century Latin America at Columbia University
The History Department at Columbia University and the Institute of Latin
American Studies (ILAS) at Columbia University are pleased to announce
a Graduate Student Conference on Twentieth-Century Latin America. The
conference will take place on Saturday March 1, 2003. It will focus
on modern Latin America (including late-nineteenth century) from a variety
of
disciplinary fields-History, Art History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political
Science, Economics, Philosophy, Literature, Public Health, Education,
and Urban Planning. This notice serves as our
Call for Papers
Topics include:
- Sexuality,
- Education,
- Public Health,
- Visual Arts,
- Nationalism and Regionalism,
- Labor History,
- Human Rights,
- Social Movements,
- Development Studies & Economic History
Conference
Format and Purpose
This graduate student conference aims at bringing together graduate
students who study twentieth-century Latin America. Our goal is to stage
an interdisciplinary conference that will open spaces of discussion
to people from a wide range of backgrounds. The conference hopes to
bridge the often lacking communication between Latin Americanists of
different disciplines.
Submission Details
Abstracts: One paragraph describing project. Deadline: December 10,
2002.
After approval from reviewing committee, please submit your 10-15-page
papers (2500-3500 words). Deadline: January 31, 2003.
Panels: will consist of 4-5 graduate student presentations with one
discussant per panel.
Please send abstracts for review to latam_conference@hotmail.com (don't
forget to include your contact information).
For the January 31, 2003, deadline, email papers to the same email address,
or send papers in duplicate to Graduate Student Conference on Latin
America, Department of History, 611 Fayerweather Hall, 2960 Broadway,
New York, NY 10027.
If any other information is needed (or a re-send), please do not
hesitate to contact us at the following addresses:
vb2010@columbia.edu; vm119@columbia.edu; ctl8@columbia.edu;
latam_conference@hotmail.com.
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Leeds
International Jazz Education Conference: 4 - 5 April 2003
The annual Leeds International Jazz Education Conference welcomes delegates
from around the world to participate in a range of practical sessions,
research presentations, workshops and performances. The 2003 conference
will feature contributions from a range of jazz professionals. The provisional
programme includes presentations from Krin Gabbard (Professor of Comparative
Literature, State University of New York) and Janice Wilson (Director,
American Institute of Vernacular Jazz Dance). Proposals are invited
for papers on any area of jazz research, with special consideration
being given to work focusing on one of the two main conference themes:
Jazz - a way of life and Jazz in Step. Individual presentations should
be no more than twenty minutes in duration. Proposals should take the
form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 200 words.
Deadline for submission is Friday 7 February 2003. Decisions will be
notified by 14 February 2003.
Abstracts should be addressed to: Dr Tony Whyton Assistant Head of Higher
Education (Research)
Leeds College of Music
3 Quarry Hill
Leeds LS2 7PD
Or e-mailed to: T.Whyton@lcm.ac.uk
Enquiries: 0113 222 3436
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The
Third International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities
and Nations
The East-West Center, University of Hawai'i, 13-16 February 2003
http://www.Diversity-Conference.com
Conference Theme: Cultural Diversity in a Globalising World
The Diversity Conference is being hosted this year by the Globalism
Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and the
Globalization Research Centre at the University of Hawai'i.
The conference will include both major keynote addresses by internationally
renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation
sessions. In all sessions we are encouraging people to bring an active
sense of the world today, from the global to the local, and to engage
with the possibilities for positive change. The
themes listed on the website indicate the range of issues which the
conference will be addressing, and you may like to speak to these from
a variety of perspectives - engaged scholarly interest in diversity;
governmental and non-governmental involvement in community building;
interest in diversity management; your research on aspects of culture
and diversity - whatever you do or whatever moves you to speak.
Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed
and published in print and electronic formats. If you are unable to
attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available allowing
access to the electronic versions of the conference proceedings, as
well as virtual presentations which mean that your paper can be included
in the refereeing process and published with the conference proceedings.
Visit the conference website for the closing dates.
Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers
form, are to be found at the conference website.
We do hope you will be able to attend this important and timely international
conference.
Prof. Paul James
Director, Globalism Institute
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
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PUBLICATIONS
Hey
students!
It’s that time of year again—time to submit to TDR’s
annual Student Essay Contest. Not only will the winning essay be published
in TDR, but the winner will also receive a prize of $500. The 2001 winner
was Jason King, author of “Toni Braxton, Disney, and Thermodynamics.”
Entries should be in English, 15-30 double-spaced pages, with your name
on the title page only, and in TDR style (please contact us for Writer’s
Guidelines at tdr@nyu.edu).
Deadline: 1 June 2003.
Send 3 copies to:
TDR Student Essay Contest
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU
721 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, NY 10003-6807
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ANAMESA.
Blur boundaries, reimagine links, explore intersections.
Repeat next year.
ANAMESA, a new interdisciplinary journal, is a collaborative project
by the Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program and the Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University. Established
to serve as a discursive conduit among New York University graduate
students, ANAMESA is now accepting submissions for its inaugural fall
publication, The Democracy Issue. Graduate students from all departments
at New York University are invited to submit essays, commentary, black
and white images, fiction, and poetry that examine, question, and challenge
our understanding of Democracy. Text submissions are not to exceed 2000
words, and we welcome submissions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or
French.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
-How is democracy bound up with collective tradition and vision?
-Is democracy translatable to every culture?
-Is democratic dissent compatible with patriotic ideals?
-Whether democracy is a means or an end, how do we measure or gauge
its success?
-Is democracy a lived experience, or is it merely an idea?
-Are global democracies and global economies pursuant to the same aims?
-Democracy and the end of the nation-state: How to delimit the "commons"?
-Why have many great thinkers been so resistant to the concept of democracy?
ANAMESA is a bi-annual publication committed to revisit every year,
for continued analysis, two core concepts: Democracy (Fall) & Culture
(Spring).
Our aim is to facilitate the transmission of knowledge between disciplines
by challenging academic borders, prying open old seams, and surveying
more deeply the wild, nuanced richness of the human condition. We invite
your curiousity.
DEADLINE: December 1, 10pm.
All submissions must be print-ready. Students are not limited to one
submission. With each submission, please include name and telephone
number, mailing address, department and expected degree, and email address.
Please email to: anamesa.journal@nyu.edu or submit a hard-copy to CLACS,
King Juan
Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, #4W. If you would like us
to return your submission, please provide a SASE with correct postage.
The Democracy Issue should be available by January 21 and an online
version will be launched shortly thereafter.
Thank you for your interest.
Questions: anamesa.journal@nyu.edu.
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Race,
Ethnicity, and Performance
A Special Issue of Text and Performance Quarterly
This special issue seeks to engage the ongoing and emerging discourses
of race and ethnicity and their relation to performance. The scope of
the issue invites a consideration of racial and ethnic performance,
broadly defined, within and outside U.S. borders.
The recent insurgence of publications and public debates on the performativity
of race and ethnicity warrants this special issue.
Over the last decade literary and cultural studies scholars have deployed
performance as a trope to theorize the instability of identity formation,
especially with regard to gender and sexuality. That theoretical paradigm
has expanded to include race and ethnicity as the academy has witnessed
the emergence of whiteness studies in addition to an even keener awareness
of performance and identity in more established disciplinary programs
in African American Studies, Latino/a Studies, Asian American Studies,
and Native American Studies and the less formalized Irish and Jewish
Studies. These race- and ethnic-based disciplines engage various methodologies
to theorize racial and ethnic cultural production. In many instances,
race and ethnicity scholars find performance to be a powerful methodology
to critically engage their objects of intellectual inquiry.
As a way to cull the myriad critical approaches to race, ethnicity,
and performance, this special issue seeks essays that diminish the lacuna
in
performance scholarship with regard to race and ethnicity. Especially
welcome are submissions that interrogate the efficacy of performance
in
debates on racial and ethnic identity, representations of race and ethnicity
in theatrical and cultural performance, historical considerations of
race, ethnicity and performance, and the imbrication of race and ethnicity
with sexuality, class, and gender in performance.
Theoretical approaches to race and ethnicity and performance including
critical race, postcolonial, and Diaspora are, of course, invited.
Please submit 4 copies of the manuscript, in MLA format, by March 15,
2003 to:
E. Patrick Johnson
Department of Performance Studies
Northwestern University
1920 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
E-mail or telephone inquiries welcome:
e-johnson10@northwestern.edu
(847) 467-2756
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‘On Smell' will be the third issue of Performance Research,
Vol.8, Nos.1-4, 2003 which explores the body and the senses in performance
in four related issues: 'On Voices', 'Bodiescapes' 'On Smell' and 'Moving
Bodies' (tbc).
The issue is jointly edited by Richard Gough - editor and co-founder
of 'Performance Research', Centre for Performance Research/ University
of Wales Aberystwyth, UK; and guest editor Judie Christie - Executive
Producer, Centre for Performance Research, Wales, UK.
Deadlines are as follows:
Proposals: October 30th, 2002
Draft manuscripts: December 30th, 2002
Finalized material: February 15th, 2003
Publication Date: September 2003
'On Smell' investigates the olfactory in performance and as a potential
for new performance work as well as the performative aspects of the
olfactory in daily life. The relationships between smell and performance
are many and diverse historical, cultural, social, aesthetic - and there
are many historical
precedents for the current interest in the olfactory potential in performance.
The editors invite contributions that explore these
relationships, either discussions of work that use smell as an aesthetic
or representational strategy, or broader discourses about smell, especially
in regard to identity, commodification, psychology, neurology, medicine,
therapy and environmentalism. We invite academics and practitioners
working in the field to contribute on aspects of the olfactory (smell,
aroma, fragrance) in performance ranging from contemporary performance
and its analysis, to historical accounts of rituals, religious ceremonies
and civic events, circus, magician's acts, equestrian theatre and other
popular entertainments from 'live art', performance art, installation
and gallery-based works to theatre productions and 'daily life' occurrences
in markets, tradefairs and shopping malls. We are interested to receive
proposals on the olfactory in performance about particular periods and
stylistic conventions of theatre - e.g. Classical, Symbolist, Futurist
- and most especially contemporary and innovative use, methods and approaches.
We are curious about the range of possibilities for the use of smell
in performance: as illustration, through to evocation, provocation,
disorientation, alienation and immersion; to enhance, contra-indicate,
seduce, repulse, and trigger memories and associations. We welcome proposals,
speculations and manifestos about the possibilities for an 'orchestration'
of smells in performance, or a dramaturgy, a choreography or an 'olfactography'.
The Olfactor in Performance
We are looking for - and looking forward to - submissions from any area
of performance research, practice and scholarship. The editors also
invite responses to previous contributions on related subjects published
in PR, and especially welcome proposals for both textual and visual
work that makes use of the resources of the page. We are interested
not only in conventional academic papers, but also in performance scores
and other documents, interviews, discussions, collaborations between
artists and academics; also critical review essays of performances and
publications.
ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct
to: Linden Elmhirst - Administrative Assistant
Performance Research
Dartington College of Arts
Totnes, Devon TQ9 7RD UK
tel. 0044 1803 862095
fax. 0044 1803 866053
email: <performance-research@dartington.ac.uk>
web: http://www.performance-research.net
Issue specific enquires should be directed to:
Richard Gough rig@aber.ac.uk or Judie Christie <juc@aber.ac.uk>
Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted on hard
copy, disk or by e-mail (Apple Works, MS-Word or RTF). Please DO NOT
send images without prior agreement. For complete guidelines please
see http://www.performance-research.net.
Submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original,
unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights
to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance
Research.
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