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News and announcements for ADSA members
Reader or Professor of Theatre Position advertised
The University of Reading (U.K.) is advertising a senior, full-time, continuing position in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, School of Arts & Communication Design
Performance Studies international conference #17
Camillo 2.0: Technology, Memory, Experience Utrecht University 25-29 May 2011
On Memory and Forgetting: Between Philosophy and Performance
An open call for proposals for a roundtable hosted by the PSi Performance & Philosophy working group PSi #17, 25-29 May 2011, Utrecht
Call for papers: Staging Sustainability—Arts Community Culture Environment
How can we produce art that reflects, celebrates, critiques and advances the cultural life of our community without contributing to the destruction of the setting that inspires these artistic endeavours? The goal of the Staging Sustainability conference is to create an opportunity for artists and those who support the arts in a myriad of ways—from scholars, critics, producers and designers to policy-makers, industry and government—to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue about the issues and challenges associated with the creation of environmentally sustainable arts practice and performance.
Call for papers: About Performance #11: In-between Moves
The 2011 issue of About Performance is dedicated to writing about moving. Collected under the sub-title of In-between Moves articles in this issue will deal with hybrid practices and motion as their primary concerns; motion in or across forms, places, times or bodies. Guest editors Amanda Card and Justine Shih Pearson are interested in articles that address the cross-cultural, the inter-disciplinary, the trans-national, the cross-genre, the inter-generational and/or the transitional in relation to everyday/extradaily movement and/or dance.
Call for papers: About Performance #11: In-between Moves
The 2011 issue of About Performance is dedicated to writing about moving. Collected under the sub-title of In-between Moves articles in this issue will deal with hybrid practices and motion as their primary concerns; motion in or across forms, places, times or bodies. Guest editors Amanda Card and Justine Shih Pearson are interested in articles that address the cross-cultural, the inter-disciplinary, the trans-national, the cross-genre, the inter-generational and/or the transitional in relation to everyday/extradaily movement and/or dance.
Call for papers . . . Health Acts: Applied Theatre, Health, and Well-being
Thursday 28th-Saturday 30th April, 2011 Department of Drama, University of Exeter What is theatre good for? Does performance have a part to play in longevity, quality of life or well-being? Can applied theatre and performance practices be understood as health-giving acts? As the population lives longer, as community care renders health and illness more visible, as society responds to looming crises of health groups dying too young or living too long, health in all its precariousness, it would seem, is firmly on the public agenda. Moreover, within applied theatre and performance practice the proliferation of activities in hospitals, surgeries, care units, rehabilitation centres and related settings is startling.
Call for registration for conference: From Sappho to X: Classics, Performance, Reception.
To coincide with Malthouse Theatre’s staging of the play 'Sappho...in 9 fragments' (http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/page/SAPPHO...in_9_fragments), Monash University's School of English, Communications and Performance Studies, Malthouse Theatre, and the Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network are hosting a three day interdisciplinary conference on the relationship between performance and the Classics.
Job: Lecturer in Drama, Flinders Drama Centre
Flinders University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Drama.
Teaching Theatre
International training course for those who are interested in teaching theatre, directed by Anatolij Vasiliev
Job: Professor/Associate Professor, Theatre Programme, Victoria University, Wellington
Victoria University is seeking to make a senior appointment, at either Professor or Associate Professor level, in its Theatre Programme.
Job: Department of Performance Studies, University of Sydney
The Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney is seeking to make an appointment at Associate Lecturer or Lecturer level (depending on previous experience) for a part-time, two year contract.
Call for contributions to a volume on movies, moves and music
MOVIES, MOVES AND MUSIC: The Sonic World of Dance Films GENRE, MUSIC AND SOUND SERIES: VOLUME 6 Edited by Dr Pauline Manley and Dr Mark Evans Published by Equinox, London
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Contemporary Theatre Review “Site-Specificity and Mobility”
This special edition of Contemporary Theatre Review edited by Anna Birch and Joanne Tompkins seeks to interrogate current trends, practices, and implications of performance in which mobility / site / location / landscape is central. It addresses analyses of ‘site’ and ‘mobility’ at its most local, specific, and actual. While these two terms may appear to be oppositional, we cannot assume that the nature of ‘site’ in contemporary performance is one of ‘rest’ or stasis of any sort. In fact, ‘site’ is often much more mobile than the discourse generally permits. As such, this special issue seeks to situate site-specificity beyond the ‘purely’ spatial in order to examine what new / different discourses appear to emerge. It aims to interrogate site-specificity and mobility in, among others, the realm of the global and globalisation, and the realm of the internet.
Vacancy for Drama Lecturer at NIE, Singapore
The National Institute of Education invites qualified Drama Teaching applicants to apply for an academic position in VPA (Drama). The VPA Academic Group has commitments to the practice and theory of drama and to education. Its Drama programme offers a B.A. (Education) and a M.Ed. (Drama Education), as well as teacher certification courses. The Academic Group prepares students for teaching at primary and secondary level. Research-oriented postgraduate work is also offered for the Master of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees.
Veronica Kelly’s The Empire Actors: Stars of Australasian Costume Drama 1890s–1920s
A reminder from Katharine Brisbane, John Golder and Currency House of their current fundraising campaign towards the publication of Veronica’s splendid The Empire Actors, the culmination of her lifetime of research into Australian theatre history. The book is due for publication in October.
Accommodation for ANU conference . . .
If you are trying to save money on accommodation at ADSA, Bec Clifford may be able to put you in touch with other like-budgeted delegates who are willing to share hotel rooms or apartments.
Call for Papers: Shakespeare's Spaces
A two-day colloquium to conclude the 2010 Australian Shakespeare Festival at the University of Tasmania. Hobart, August 28-29 2010
Conference . . . Acting With Facts: Performing the Real on Stage and Screen 1990-2010
An international conference at the University of Reading 1-3 September 2010 The Arts and Humanities Research Council of England and Wales project 'Acting with Facts: Actors Performing the Real in British Theatre and Television Since 1990' is one of the activities of the Centre for Television Studies, based in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television. It is led by Dr Derek Paget, working with Postdoctoral Researcher Dr Heather Sutherland, (Co-Investigators: Professor Jonathan Bignell and Lib Taylor). Running since 2007, the project concludes in 2010.
Call for Papers: Popular Entertainment Studies
Volume 1, number 2 Popular Entertainment Studies is a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary eJournal dedicated to the exploration of all aspects of popular entertainment. Its aim is to stimulate international debate and the exchange of ideas in a field whose meaning and definition remain widely contested.
