It's interesting to see where, how and with what implications critical
geography is being taken up in other disciplines ... especially given,
in this particular case, geography's contemporaneous fascination with
performance studies ...
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> From: "J. Chris Westgate" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed Oct 22, 2003 6:27:16 pm Europe/London
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> Subject: CFP: Theatrical Geographies (12/30/03; ALA, 5/27/04-5/30/04)
>
> Performing Space: Theatrical Geographies & Geographical Theater
>
> This proposed panel for the Annual Conference of the American
> Literature
> Association, 27-30 May 2004, San Francisco CA seeks to discuss and
> debate
> the influence of critical geography (led by Soja, Massey, Smith, et
> al.)
> on theater (in performance, in theme, in architecture) from the second
> half of the 20th century until the present. Such an discussion has
> already been begun by the writing of Una Chaudhuri, Marvin Carlson, and
> others, but this panel would expand on this work, consider how various
> geographies, postmodern or otherwise, have shaped contemporary theater—
> especially but not exclusively in performance.
>
> Of particular interest to this panel would be papers that consider the
> staging of “simulated” geographies (to borrow from Baudrillard): that
> is,
> geographies that are simultaneously “real” and “imagined” or that have
> complicated or collapsed this modernist binary (in part through their
> staging). These spaces might include tourist sites, memorials, urban
> spaces, mythic landscapes, Hollywood, etc. At the heart of this panel,
> ideally, would be the effect of simulated geography on human identity.
> But submissions dealing with any aspect of spatiality (from a variety
> of
> perspectives: Marxism, gender studies, travel theory, etc.) in
> contemporary drama are welcome.
>
> Please send 250 word abstracts (included in the body of the email; no
> attachments, please) to [log in to unmask], or send hard copies of
> abstracts to J. Chris Westgate, Department of English, University of
> California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 (along with
> contact
> information) by December 30, 2003.
>
>
> J. Chris Westgate
> Department of English
> University of California, Davis
> Davis, CA 95616
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