The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0346 Wednesday, 1 July 2009
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Date: Tuesday, 30 Jun 2009 10:58:39 -0400
Subject: Calls for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Sessions Sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
1. International Congress for Medieval Studies, Leeds: 12-15 July 2010
Beastly Drama: Animals in Early Modern Theatre
Deadline: 15 September 2009
2009, which marks the sesquicentennial of Charles Darwin's Origin of
Species, has set off a flurry of investigations into evolution and
animal studies in various disciplines. How do we define ourselves in
relationship to the animal/human binary, and has that definition changed
since the early modern period? This session will consider how we might
interpret the interactions of animals and humans in theatre from the
14th to 17th centuries. Possible topics include: staging with animals in
theatres (from bear-baitings to the sheep in The Second Shepherd's Play
to Crab in Two Gentlemen); animals as symbolic "others" (from "the beast
with two backs" to Ferdinand's lycanthropia);
representations/constructions of animals in entertainments;
anthropomorphization and hierarchical ideologies.
Please send abstracts (300-word maximum) to: Suzanne Westfall,
Department of English/Theatre, Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 USA.
2. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia: 27-30 December 2009
Early Modern Theatre in the Contact Zone
Deadline: 15 September 2009
Drawing on Mary Louise Pratt's concept of "contact zones", this session
will examine how early modern plays present situations where cultures
meet to negotiate power and to express, in rhetorical and theatrical
structures, the various tensions that inform relationships between
genders, between generations, between nationalities, between religions,
and between ethnicities. We might consider how such differences are
costumed, or how contemporary productions address problematic cultural
contexts such occur in The Taming of the Shrew, The Croxton Play of the
Sacrament, and The Jew of Malta. Possible topics include dramatic
representations of: postcolonial negotiations, racism, anti-Semitism,
international relations, sexism, ageism/jeunism. Approaches might
include queer, feminist, psychoanalytic, anthropological, and cultural
theories.
Please send abstracts (300-word maximum) to: Suzanne Westfall,
Department of English/Theatre, Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 USA.
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