CDE Conference 2012

21st Annual CDE Conference at the Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr June 7 – 10, 2012 "Bodies on Stage"   The conference hompage is now online! Find out more about keynote speakers, artists and other details.

• Call for Papers for the 2012 CDE Conference in Mülheim/Ruhr ("Bodies on Stage").
  Deadline for proposals: December 31, 2011.

 

Recent CDE Publications

CDE 18
Merle Tönnies, Christina Flotmann (eds.)
Narrative in Drama

CDE Studies 21
Ulrike Behlau-Dengler
Zakhor! Remembering the British-Jewish Experience in British-Jewish Drama after 1945

 

CDE Studies 20
Julia Weidenbach
"The Power of the Past": Arthur Millers späte Dramen

CDE Studies 19
Jürgen Wehrmann
Gedächtnis als Gefängnis: Metahistorische Reflexion in zeitgenössischen irischen Dramen

Other Drama Studies News

• CFP: The international conference "Subsidy, Patronage & Sponsorship: Theatre and Performance Culture in Uncertain Times" is to be held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, on July 19-21, 2012. Abstracts for 20-minute papers (250 words) or panel proposals (1000 words) should be sent via email to Professor John Bull or Dr Graham Saunders (both University of Reading), or to Matilda Pye (V&A Conferences and Symposiums Manager) no later than 25 FEBRUARY 2012.
  A detailed CFP can be downloaded from the V&A website.

• CFP: The MLA-indexed Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) invites contributions to a special section in one of the 2013 issues, titled "Revisions of the Dramatic Canon: The Work of Caryl Churchill and Contemporary British Playwriting by Women" and edited in honour of the 75th birthday of Caryl Chruchill in 2013. The description 'British' refers to writers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well. Abstracts not exceeding 500 words should be emailed to the section editor, Dr. Mária Kurdi, by 1 February 2012. (Papers of the selected contributors are to be sent to the section editor via email by 1 August 2012.)

• CFP: "Beckett and the State of Ireland Conference 2012: Irish Beckett - Global Beckett" is to be held at the University of Dublin on July 13-14, 2012. Abstracts not exceeding 300 words for 20 minute papers should be emailed to the conference organisers. The deadline for proposals is Friday, 24 February 2012.
  This homepage has a CFP and further details.

• CFP: The seminar "Representations of Political/Ethical Concerns in post-1989 British Theatre" (S74), convened by Deniz Bozer (Hacettepe University, TR), Ibrahim Yerebekan (Rize University, TR), and Mireia Aragay (University of Barcelona, ES), will be held at ESSE 2012 - 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, 4-8 September 2012. Those wishing to participate in the Conference are invited to submit 200-word abstracts of their proposed papers directly to all convenors of the seminar in question before 31 January 2012. The convenors will let the proponents know whether their proposals have been accepted by no later than 29 February 2012. Further information is available on the conference website.

• The 4th International Conference on American Drama and Theater is to be held at the University of Seville (Spain) on May 28-30, 2012. The conference topic is "The Romance of Theater: American Drama and Its Stories". The conference homepage has a CFP (deadline: October 15, 2011) and further details.

• The 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Welsh Writing in English is to be held at the Gregynog Hall, Newtown (Wales), on March 30 - April 1, 2012. The conference topic is "Performing Wales: Theatre, Art, Identities". The CFP (deadline: November 15, 2011) is here.

• "Sarah Kane Now: 21st Century Sarah Kane" is an international festival to be held at the University of Lincoln (UK) on March 26-31, 2012. It includes an international symposium on March 31. The festival homepage has calls for projects and papers (deadline: October 3, 2011) and further details.

• The 2011 Drama Through the Ages and Medieval Literature Conference is to be held at the University of Lodz (Poland) on October 20-22, 2011. The conference topic is "Eroticism and Its Discontents". The conference homepage has details.

• The 2011 FIRT/IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) Conference at Osaka University on August 7-12, 2011. The conference topic is "Tradition, Innovation, Community". The conference homepage has details.

• Caryl Churchill Symposium at the University of Lincoln on 16 April 2011. The conference topic is "Churchill Now: 21st Century Caryl Churchill". The conference homepage has details.

• The first issue of the new journal "Performing Ethics" has been released. The journal's homepage has details. The principal editor is Carole-Anne Upton at Ulster.

• Samuel Beckett: Out of the Archive conference at the University of York from June 23-26, 2011. The conference homepage has details. CFP is here.