News
News and announcements for ADSA members
CFP: 'Theatre, Dance and Performance Training' Journal
Invitations and news from 'Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (TDPT) Journal
ADS - Books for Review
Australasian Drama Studies has the following new books available for review -
CFP: Titanic 1912: Soundings in Global and Media History
An interdisciplinary symposium 100 years after the sinking of the luxury liner as a transnational media event, 30 March-01 April 2012, Munich
CFP: Enacting Nature - Ecocritical Perspectives of Indigenous Performance
Edited by Prof. Dr. Birgit Dawes and Prof. Dr. Marc Maufort.
CFP - 'Entertaining Children: The Participation of Children in Theatre and the Entertainment Industries
Expressions of interest are invited from scholars in areas like theatre studies, sociology, children’s literature, education and labour history to contribute to an edited volume on the topic: 'Entertaining children: the participation of children in theatre and the entertainment industry'
CFP Popular Entertainment Studies
An interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the investigation of all aspects of popular entertainment.
Call for nominations for the biennial Rob Jordan Prize for Best Book by an ADSA Member
This is a call for nominations for the 2012 ADSA ROB JORDAN PRIZE for the best book in English on a subject related to drama, theatre or performance studies by an ADSA member in 2010-2011. ADSA members may nominate themselves or another ADSA member for this award (see the ADSA Website under PRIZES at http://www.adsa.edu.au/prizes for further information about the prize and eligibility).
CFP: Digital Performance Futures in Australasia
Australasian Drama Studies: Special Focus Issue October 2015
New Directions in Circus Research: A one-day Symposium
Presented by La Trobe University’s Centre for Creative Arts, Faculty of HSS and Australian Physical Theatre and Circus Association (ACAPTA)
CFP: History, Memory and Representation
The 2012 National Taiwan University (NTU) International Theatre Conference
"Experiencing Art", Talk by Dr Matthew Reason
Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Arts Education 2011 presents: 'Experiencing Art', Dr Matthew Reason, York St. John University, Monday 7th November 2011
CFP - Creative Critical Pedagogy Seminar
CATR/ACRT Conference 2012, University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario (Canadian Association for Theatre Research/Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale).
Australasian Drama Studies (ADS) - Books For Review
Glenn D’Cruz, Reviews Editor for Australasian Drama Studies, has received a number of new books for review – if you are interested in reviewing any of the books below for ADS please contact Glenn at glenn.dcruz@deakin.edu.au.
'Pop Culture and Soft Power: Competition in East Asia', Professor Chua Beng Huat, NUS
Macgeorge Visiting Speaker, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 26th September 2011
CFP: "Framing Lives", 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association, Canberra, 18-20 July 2012
The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association.
"New Communities, New Racisms" - 4th Biennial Asian Australian Research Network Conference
As well as internationally renowned academic keynotes and a national celebrity, the event features invited panels focused on food-blogging, diversity and political representation, cinema and the film industry, emerging Asian Australian communities, and a second novel's literary expectations.
