Call for Sessions: 2017 New York Archives Conference

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SAVE THE DATE The New York Archives Conference will be held June 7-9, 2017 at Utica College, Utica, NY 2107 Call for Session Proposals NYAC invites proposals of sessions that explore archival practice. Traditional presentation formats as well as formats that encourage interaction between attendees and presenters are welcome. Each session lasts a total of 90 minutes, including at least 15 minutes for questions and discussion. Information and forms for proposers: Proposers Information Sheet Session Proposal Form Please email the completed forms to nyacprogram@gmail.com All proposals must be received by the NYAC 2017 Program Committee at nyacprogram@gmail.com no later than December 5, 2016....
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Journal: Theatre Research International 41.3 Released

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Theatre Research International 41.3 is now available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international. The new issue contains: Theatre Research International | Cambridge Core www.cambridge.org Theatre Research International publishes articles on theatre practices in their social, cultural, and historical contexts, their relationship to other media of ... Editorial: Joining the Conversation PAUL RAE Articles From Panic to Reconciliation: Protest Theatre and the State in Zimbabwe, 1999–2012 KELVIN CHIKONZO Theatre and the Publics of Democracy: Between Melodrama and Rational Realism PARTHA CHATTERJEE An Eternal Parting: Staging Internal Diaspora, Performing South Korean Nationalism HYUNJUNG LEE Dramaturgies of the Left-Behind: Mobility and Stickiness in The Disappearances Project SUZANNE LITTLE Astroaesthetics: Performance and the Rise of Interplanetary Culture FELIPE CERVERA Book Reviews Akram Khan: Dancing New Interculturalism. By Royona Mitra . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pp. xviii + 197. Katharina Pewny The Theatrical Public Sphere. By Christopher B. Balme . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xi + 234. £64.95/ $99.99 Hb. Joshua Edelman New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649–1849. By Elizabeth Maddock Dillon . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. 368 + 17...
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Job Posting: Chair, Department of Theatre – University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Chair, Department of Theatre [17074] Institution: University of Nevada Las Vegas Location: Las Vegas, NV Category: Faculty - Fine and Applied Arts - Theatre and Dance Posted: 09/22/2016 Application Due: Open Until Filled Type: Full Time Announcement Number: 17074 The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for Chair, Department of Theatre PROFILE of the UNIVERSITY Founded in 1957, UNLV is a doctoral-degree-granting institution of approximately 29,000 students and 3,000 faculty and staff that is classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a research university with high research activity. UNLV offers a broad range of respected academic programs and is on a path to join the top tier of national public research universities. The university is committed to enhancing efforts to attract and retain top students and faculty, educating the region's diversifying population and workforce, driving economic activity through increased research and community partnerships, and creating an academic health center for Southern Nevada that includes the launch of a new UNLV School of Medicine. UNLV is located on a 332-acre main campus and two satellite campuses in Southern Nevada. PROFILE of the DEPARTMENT of THEATRE The department...
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Call for Papers: 2017 GHA Conference, “The Spatial Turn” (St Louis, MO)

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2017 GHA Conference Call for Papers The Spatial Turn The Graduate History Association at Washington University in St. Louis is pleased to announce their fifth annual Graduate Conference, to be held March 31st-April 1st 2017 on the Danforth Campus in St. Louis, Missouri. We invite graduate and post-doctoral students engaged in research across disciplines to submit proposals for this year’s conference theme: The Spatial Turn. The Conference will explore questions pertaining to the social, political, economic, and cultural relations between people and landscapes. Since the 1980s scholars in the humanities have engaged with the question of space as a historical actor in itself rather than merely a backdrop to history. Spaces are both constitutive and representative. This Conference will interrogate ways in which to analyze human interactions with environments. Participants are invited to critically explore and reflect on at least one of the following threads: 1.     Imagining Space: How do maps and other visual and textual representations appropriate and construct space? How do visual...
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