CFP: (dis)junctions: Searching For the Real Shakespeare (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)
Searching For the Real Shakespeare

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions:
theory reloaded at the University of California Riverside's 12th Annual
Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

>From the outside, the academy is often assumed to be the bearer of
tradition, yet from our perspective it seems that the mass media puts a
greater premium on authenticity, especially concerning "cultural
authorities" such as Shakesepeare. How does this relate to:
- Shakespeare's own level of concern with authenticity regarding sources,
especially that of Roman and English history
- The percieved authenticity of "modern dress" performances, or any time
period between today and the time period of Shakespeare (or of the play's
setting, if applicable)
- "Ethnic authenticity," regarding performances of ostensibly white European
characters by actors of color
- Authenticity of speech, concerning different accents, styles of acting
from "realist" to impressionist
- How theory undermines or in some cases even reinforces notions of
authenticity
- Issues of intended audience, pandering, special effects and spectacle,
high and low culture and the commonplaces involved
- Vestiges of traidtional academic disdain for performance as inherently
inauthentic reading, versus the commonplace that Shakespeare never meant to
publish his plays
- High school productions and the authenticity of the inexperienced

One page abstracts should be e-mailed to originalcarl_at_hotmail.com by January
7, 2005 (text in the body of the message; please no attachments). The
submissions should be no longer than 250 words.

Proposals sent via snail mail should be sent to:
(dis)junctions
UCR's Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

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