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Dear all, With the usual apologies for cross-posting, please find below a call for papers for a conference on the subject of Configuring 'World Theatre' to be held at the University of Edinburgh in June 2019. It goes without saying that we'd be delighted to hear from Germanists, but we'd also be immensely grateful if you could pass it along to people outwith Germanistik (and indeed outwith MEL) that you think might be interested. Many thanks in advance, and all the very best, Michael *** Abstracts are invited for a two-day conference on Configuring ‘World Theatre’: Gaining Global Perspectives on Transnational and Intercultural Drama and Performance to take place at the University of Edinburgh, 20-21 June 2019. We welcome papers on any area that addresses theatre from a global/transnational/world perspective and/or papers that bring together theatre from two or more geographical areas and/or traditions that are commonly kept apart. We are particularly keen to receive abstracts dealing with theatre outside Europe. The purpose of the conference is to unite scholars from Modern Languages departments and related disciplines within the Arts and Humanities for two days of discussion on the topic of World Theatre. Within the Anglophone and European contexts, 'World Theatre' still tends to be understood as referring to the research of separate national theatrical traditions and practices from across the globe or giving overviews of individual theorists and practitioners from outside of the European and American world. Yet there is much that theatre research can gain from the methodologies and insights of World Literature research and Transnational Studies. While World Literature has become a well-established paradigm for Modern Languages research in recent decades, this conference seeks to promote the field of World Theatre in Scotland and beyond. Bringing researchers who specialise on theatre within different language areas and scholars from related disciplines into conversation with each other and with existing theories of World Literature and Transnationality, we hope to find exciting new avenues for on-going and future scholarship, including collaborative research. The conference will feature a combination of research papers and discussions. Participants will be invited to attend a theatre performance in Edinburgh on 20 June that will form the basis for discussion and debate the following day. Our keynote speaker will be Prof Osita Okagbue, Professor of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, London. Please send abstracts of up to 250 words for twenty-minute papers to both Julia Prest ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Michael Wood ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday 15 October 2018. The conference is funded by the AHRC Open World Research Initiative (OWRI) via the Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR), with additional support from the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews and the British Academy. Two bursaries for graduate students giving papers will be available on a competitive basis. -- Dr Michael Wood British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures University of Edinburgh 0131 6505018 Available now: Heiner Müller's Democratic Theater. The Politics of Making the Audience Work<https://boydellandbrewer.com/heiner-m-252-ller-s-democratic-theater-hb.html> http://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/michael-wood https://edinburgh.academia.edu/MichaelWood ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the GERMAN-STUDIES list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=GERMAN-STUDIES&A=1