USA/ Call for papers – American Society for Theater Research
This year's American Society for Theater Research Conference takes place 20-23 November in Baltimore, Maryland – with UK academics in attendance. As part of the conference, a
working session on 'Puppetry and Material Performance' will be convened by, among others, Cariad Astles of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Alissa Mello of Royal
Holloway University of London.
The conference website states:
“This Working Session will explore these changing definitions in two thematically linked subgroups. The first aims to position puppetry, which has often been decentered from the study of theatre history, as central to object-oriented explorations currently taking place in
multiple disciplines. We propose to shift away from notions of the puppet as necessarily representationally or anthropomorphically linked to humans or animals and to investigate “material performance,” performance that assumes that inanimate matter contains agency not simply to mimic but also to create. The second subgroup will explore questions related to the female and feminine in puppetry, to analyses of gender representation and subversion, and to the relationship between puppets and puppeteers in light of contemporary feminist theory.”
Anyone interested in submitting a paper to the Conference should see the Conference website here for full details:
Full details: http://www.astr.org/?page=14_Working_Sessions#PM
Submission deadline 1st June 2014.
2014 Working Sessions – American Society For Theatre Research (ASTR)
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