From: "Louise Owen" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 September 2006 12:09:24 BDT
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Subject: SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT: the building of the archive
**FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: deadline 28 September 2006**
SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT: the building of the archive
Friday 20 & Saturday 21 October 2006
http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/sightingdoc/index.htm
Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, SIGHTING THE DOCUMENT
invites graduate students from all areas of the humanities to consider the
relationship between the document and the archive, in their widest possible
sense.
Taking a performance studies perspective, this interdisciplinary conference
approaches documentation and archival work as situated processes. It aims to
reflect upon the production and reception of knowledge - how objects and
events are identified as relevant to the historical record, and how
documents and the archives that house them are implicated in diverse modes
of social and cultural memory.
This day-and-a-half long conference will consist of:
- Panel presentations (for which papers of 15 minutes are invited)
- Practice-based research training workshops
- Keynote address
- Performance event on the conference theme
Guest practitioners:
Chris Crickmay & Miranda Tufnell, performance artists and authors of 'Body,
Space, Image - Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance' (Virago) and 'A
Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination' (Dance Books).
Evelyn Welch, Professor of Renaissance Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Ross Brown, Sound Designer and Head of Undergraduate Studies, Central School
of Speech and Drama
Tony Fegan & Sara Watkins, Learning Director and Living Archive Project
Manager, London International Festival of Theatre
Keynote speaker:
We are delighted to welcome Alan Read as the keynote speaker for SIGHTING
THE DOCUMENT. Alan Read is Professor of Theatre in the Department of
English at King's College, University of London. He is the author of
Theatre and Everyday Life: An Ethics of Performance (1995), and the editor
of Spaced Out: Architecture, Art and the City at the Millennium (1999) and
Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday
(2000).
Please also visit http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/sightingdoc/index.htm for
full details, including conference timetable, training workshops and
registration information.
Please pass this on to anyone who may be interested. We hope to see you there!
http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/sightingdoc/index.htm
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