The eleventh annual meeting of the Theater Without Borders Research Collective will take place in Paris, at the NYC in Paris Center (Latin Quarter), June 30-July 3, 2015.
As in previous years, we welcome papers, panels, and roundtable discussions that take some kind of a transnational or comparative look at early modern theater. We will consider how actors, theatergrams, playscripts, scenarios, visual images, theater technologies, ideas, ideologies, generic forms, cultural traces, and historical/political pressures traveled across geo-linguistic boundaries in the theaters and performance traditions of early modern Europe. And we will examine such boundary-crossings through different disciplinary approaches, especially those of theater history, translation studies, comparative literature, performance studies, race and gender studies, and social/cultural history. We strive for as full a picture of early modern European theater as possible, attending to the major theaters of England, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany, but also considering other European theaters (e.g., Dutch, Czech, Scandinavian, Russian) as well as theater and performance in the New World. This year, we also particularly welcome papers and panels on the early modern theatrical reception of ancient Greek and Roman theater. And given the location of our conference, we encourage papers and discussions about the role of early modern Paris as a transnational "contact zone" of early modern theater and performance.
Participants may either opt to present an individual paper, varying from twenty to thirty minutes depending on scheduling, or propose a panel discussion with other colleagues.
Housing options near the NYU Center on Boulevard St. Germain, mostly in the low-moderate price range relative to Paris norms, will be announced in early January.
There will be a registration fee for the conference not in excess of 80 Euros. The exact amount will be announced in early January. This fee is waived for graduate students attending the conference.
If you wish to attend the conference, please respond with a paper or panel discussion proposal to Robert Henke (rhenke@wustl.edu) by Feb. 15, 2015 at the latest.
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