>From: "Pamela H. Long" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Lauer, A Robert" <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:04:55 -0500 >Subject: Call for papers > >Robert, por favor hágalo circular como email. En enlace funciona sin punto. > >CALL FOR ABSTRACTS > >◘ > >Strategies for Reviving Plays >from the Spanish Golden Age, >In Class and On Stage > >◙ > >an ATHE Seminar for >“Risking Innovation” >in New York City >8-11 August 2009 > > For the first time in ATHE’s > history, the 2009 conference at the New York > Marriott Marquis will feature a Seminar > addressing plays from the Spanish Golden Age > (c. 1580-1680) – the richest untapped > resource in Western theater, equipped with > thousands of world-class scripts to explore, > produced in a historical moment eerily like our > own, and superlatively positioned to build > sorely needed bridges between Anglo and Hispanic cultural perspectives. > Plays from the Siglo de Oro are > barely studied (and even more rarely staged) in > university theater programs. Yet movement > toward reclaiming these plays has recently made > its mark on ATHE > conferences. Multi-disciplinary panels on > translation, dramaturgy, religion in theater, > and social action have featured classical > Spanish comedias as case studies, demonstrating > a growing interest in how this provocatively > varied, puzzlingly unexplored body of work can enrich our practice. > Strategies for Reviving Plays from > the Spanish Golden Age, In Class and On Stage > brings together the fervent but fragmented > voices that have been calling for new > approaches to teaching and performing classical > Spanish plays. The Seminar invites > contributors to share strategies, experiments, > innovations, theories, and > experiences. Through pre-conference exchanges, > in-conference discussions, and post-conference > networking, the Seminar offers participants > (and their auditors) extraordinary > opportunities to pool insights, interact with > international experts, and forge new developments in the field. > >To participate in this Seminar, >please submit a 250 word abstract of your >proposed contribution by November 1, >using the process detailed at ><http://www.riskinginnovation.com/program.html>www.riskinginnovation.com/program.html >. > >This website posts the seminar’s official Call >for Papers, provides information about the >seminar format, answers many questions, and >opens the link to submit abstracts. Unanswered >questions should be referred to the seminar’s >convener, Ben Gunter, via e-mail to ><http:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] > Prof. A. Robert Lauer The University of Oklahoma Dept. of Modern Langs., Lits., & Ling. 780 Van Vleet Oval, Kaufman Hall, Room 206 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-2032, USA Tel.: 405/325-5845 (office); 405/325-6181 (OU dept.); Fax: 405/325-0103 (office) Vision: Harmonious collaboration in an international world. Mission: "Visualize clearly and communicate promptly" <http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/A-Robert.R.Lauer-1/vita.html>VITA / <http://www.peterlang.com/all/>IBRICA / <http://www.ou.edu/bcom/>BCom / <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Coloquio <http://www.ou.edu/cervantes/coloquiocervantes.html>Cervantes / <http://www.ou.edu/teatro/coloquioteatro.html>Coloquio Teatro de los Siglos de Oro