CFP: Educated Playing: University Drama in Early Modern Europe (9/1/01; Kalamazoo, 5/2/02-5/5/02)

From: Jonathan A Walker (jwalke5@uic.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 18:18:25 EDT

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            "Educated Playing: University Drama in Early Modern Europe"

             Thirty-Seventh International Congress on Medieval Studies
                            Western Michigan University
                                Kalamazoo, Michigan
                                   2-5 May 2002

    The International Congress on Medieval Studies invites submissions for a
    Special Session on early modern university drama. The session seeks to
    offer new perspectives on an important sector of European theater, one
    which has intimate ties with humanist learning, neoclassicism, and even
    court and popular playing.

    Submissions might address but are certainly not limited to the following
    questions: How might our contemporary pedagogies usefully employ
    university plays, which were themselves primarily educational exercises?
    What do individual plays and/or performances contribute to our
    understanding of early modern university culture? Of university curricula?
    What traces of native dramatic elements survive in the dominantly
    neoclassical university drama of Europe? How do the unique performance
    circumstances of university plays affect issues of gender and sexuality?
    Of class? What material and/or theoretical issues impede investigations
    into these questions?
     
    PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 1 SEPTEMBER 2001. Please send all
    submissions by electronic attachment (or cut-and-pasted), or if necessary
    by hard copy, to:

                    Jonathan Walker

    Email: jwalke5@uic.edu

    Home: 2924 North Frederick Avenue
                    Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211

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