CDE Call for Papers
CDE Conference 2005, Bremen, Germany, 5-8 May 2005
Mapping Uncertain Territories. Space and Place in Contemporary Theatre
and Drama
The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English
announces its 14th Annual Conference (5-8 May 2005). It will be
organized by the Chair of English Literature at International University
Bremen and held on the university campus.
Call for papers:
In our post-national, post-colonial and postmodern world, categories of
space and place have become increasingly contested. The capacity to
create or “produce space” (Lefebvre) is a quality that all literary and
artistic genres inherently share. Theatre and drama, however, takes a
particularly challenging role in this respect. As a performative genre,
it continuously oscillates between the imagined spaces and places of the
text and the real, social, cultural and political spaces and places of
its production and reception. Public spaces, market places and the stage
as “the other place” create territories that invite exploration and mapping.
This conference aims to investigate the ways in which theatre and drama
engages with, (re)negotiates and (re)defines the changing nature of
contemporary notions of space and place.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- contemporary drama and theatre as creative, commercial, political,
cultural space
- space, place, identities and/or gender in contemporary drama and theatre
- alternative spaces and places in contemporary theatre and drama
- contemporary theatre and drama and/in cyberspace
- theatre, globalisation and the marketplace
- modes of exchange in time and place
Abstracts:
If you propose to give a talk (in English, not exceeding 20 minutes),
please submit your title and an abstract of 200 words accompanied by a
short biographical sketch. In addition to the presentation of papers we
particularly invite contributions to alternative forms of discussion:
e.g. proposals for workshops on Teaching Contemporary Drama in English
and on Theatre Practice/Working with English Drama Groups. Deadline for
submission of abstracts: 31 December 2004.
Only paid-up members are eligible to read papers at CDE confereneces.
NB.: Membership subscriptions may be taken out or renewed during the
conference.
Please send your proposals to:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Rommel
Mark Schreiber, M.A.
International University Bremen,
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Arts and Literature
PO Box 750561
D-28725 Bremen
e-mail: t.rommel@iu-bremen.de; mark.schreiber@iu-bremen.de
conference website: http://www.ContemporaryDrama.de
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