Conference: Festival of Original Theatre, 2017

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The 2017 Festival of Original Theatre: Sounding the Inner of Performance February 2-5, 2017 The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (University of Toronto) You’re invited to attend four dynamic and chock-full days of sonic celebration and inquiry at the 2017 Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)! FOOT is both an annual academic conference and performance festival that brings together scholars and artists alike for cross-disciplinary exploration and exchange. This year FOOT celebrates both its 25th anniversary as a festival, and the 50th anniversary of the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies (CDTPS). This year’s theme — Sounding The Inner Ear of Performance — offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the history and evolution of sound and aural experience in theatrical and performative cultures. Festival events will include lecture ­presentations, panel discussions, audio essays, ‘collage concerts’, interactive installations, a blindfolded walking tour and mask workshop. We invite all theatre enthusiasts, artists, educators, students and scholars to join us for a fascinating and diverse exploration of...
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Call for Proposals: American Society for Theatre Research, 2017 – Atlanta

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November 16-19, 2017 Proposal Deadline for Plenary Papers, Working Sessions, and Curated Panels – February 1, 2017 Grand Hyatt Atlanta Buckhead 3300 Peachtree Rd NE Atlanta, GA 30305 Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of “Difference” Historically, bodies have been divided into categories that separate the normal from the abnormal, the natural from the monstrous. In Generatione Animalium, Aristotle describes terata (monsters) as defective beings because they disrupt the order of nature. Subsequent approaches to defining our world, and by extension the human body, continued throughout the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and into our present understanding of scientific, racial, and moral difference. These “extraordinary bodies,” as Rosemarie Garland-Thomson calls them, have persistently been understood as aberrations that produce either fear or marvel. She says, “Because such bodies are rare, unique, material, and confounding of cultural categories, they function as magnets to which culture secures its anxieties, questions, and needs at any given moment.” A focus on extraordinary bodies also provides an entryway into a discussion of...
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Call for Papers: Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017

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The program committee seeks proposals for Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017, which will be hosted by Stanford University Libraries in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley and a short commuter train ride to San Francisco, from 29-31 March, 2017.  The proposal deadline has been extended to 25 November 2016 (7:00 AM UTC), and registration is now open. PDA 2017 will showcase current and emerging scholarship on personal digital archiving and personal information management, as well as exciting and innovative projects and programs. More information about PDA 2017 can be found here: https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017. Registration is available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/personal-digital-archiving-pda-2017-tickets-28669844276. The program committee seeks proposals for presentations, panels, lightning talks, posters (including demos), and workshops. The complete call for proposals is now available online here:  https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017/call-proposals. Please submit your proposal here: https://library.stanford.edu/projects/personal-digital-archiving-2017/submit-proposal.   Many thanks, Josh Schneider (on behalf of the program and planning committees)   --   Josh Schneider  Assistant University Archivist ePADD Community Manager Special Collections & University Archives  Stanford University  josh.schneider@stanford.edu 650-497-6489...
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Call for Papers: Documenting Cinema: Film Librarianship in the 21st Century

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Documenting Cinema: Film Librarianship in the 21st Century, a conference hosted by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library, will be held April 26-28, 2017 in Los Angeles.  It aims to provide an opportunity for professionals working with paper-based motion picture-related collections to share knowledge and work processes integral to administration of their collections. For more information about the Conference - or to submit a Proposal - visit the Documenting Cinema website: http://libraryconference.oscars.org/...
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Call for Sessions: 2017 New York Archives Conference

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SAVE THE DATE The New York Archives Conference will be held June 7-9, 2017 at Utica College, Utica, NY 2107 Call for Session Proposals NYAC invites proposals of sessions that explore archival practice. Traditional presentation formats as well as formats that encourage interaction between attendees and presenters are welcome. Each session lasts a total of 90 minutes, including at least 15 minutes for questions and discussion. Information and forms for proposers: Proposers Information Sheet Session Proposal Form Please email the completed forms to nyacprogram@gmail.com All proposals must be received by the NYAC 2017 Program Committee at nyacprogram@gmail.com no later than December 5, 2016....
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Call for Papers: 2017 GHA Conference, “The Spatial Turn” (St Louis, MO)

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2017 GHA Conference Call for Papers The Spatial Turn The Graduate History Association at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce their fifth annual Graduate Conference, to be held March 31st-April 1st 2017 on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis, Missouri. We invite graduate and post-doctoral students engaged in research across disciplines to submit proposals for this year’s conference theme: The Spatial Turn. The Conference will explore questions pertaining to the social, political, economic, and cultural relations between people and landscapes. Since the 1980s scholars in the humanities have engaged with the question of space as a historical actor in itself rather than merely a backdrop to history. Spaces are both constitutive and representative. This Conference will interrogate ways in which to analyze human interactions with environments. Participants are invited to critically explore and reflect on at least one of the following threads: 1.     Imagining Space: How do maps and other visual and textual representations appropriate and construct space? How do visual...
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