Room For Play: Drama, Theatre, and Performance
14th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Southern California
February 23-24, 2001
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We are delighted to present:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Jill Dolan (UT, Austin), author of _The Feminist
Spectator as Critic_ .
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY: Danny Hoch, who will be doing a piece entitled
"Jails, Hospitals and Hip Hop"
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The goal of this conference is twofold: (1) to explore textual, social,
cultural, and political implications of drama, theatre, and performance
and
(2) to explore theoretical and cultural deployment of the discourse of
drama, theatre, and performance.
We solicit papers in the following areas:
Critical Theory and Performance Dramatic Literature
Ethnic Drama Dramatic Theory
History of Theatre Theatre as
Social Space
Dramatic Performance Cultural
Performance
Political Performance Site-Specific
Performance
Los Angeles Theatre and Performance Textual
Performance
Bodily Performance Performativity
Theatricality Gesture
Ritual Dance
Music
“Room” can be both an enclosed space and an in-between space. In the
first
sense of the word, disciplines and terms have traditionally resided in
enclosed domains of marked meaning: drama as the textual/linguistic
organization around certain conventions of story-telling and
representation,
theatre as the social space in which drama takes place, performance as
the
act of dramatic execution before an audience. However, these
definitions or
marked-off areas of meaning prove unstable as the terms easily reveal
the
room between these meanings, as in the second sense of the word. Just
shifting the terms drama, theatre, and performance to dramatic,
theatrical,
and performative leads us past the previous formulations, reminding us
of
the latter’s currency in various disciplines: literature, film,
anthropology, linguistics, cultural studies among others. For the
purpose
of exploring these multiple valences of drama, theatre, and performance,
the
conference will provide a room for discussion on specific topics as well
as
room among these topics for negotiation and play.
The conference will also tap into the resources of the local theatre
scene
and hold discussions on Los Angeles Theatre/Performance. Our panels will
include theatre critics from the LA Weekly, playwrights, directors, and
local performers. We also hope to have solo performances by one or more
distinguished performers.
Call for Papers
We encourage paper and panel presentations in both traditional and
non-traditional formats, and from all disciplines, genres, and
historical
periods.
Please send a one-page abstract by December 1 to:
Robert Rundquist
Department of English
Taper Hall of Humanities
USC, University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Or email abstracts to: rundquis@usc.edu (please include abstracts in the
body of the email).
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