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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000>IPP International Summer School at
Mainz (Germany), July 4th-17th 2008<BR>“Take Up the Bodies: Theatricality and
Writing/Culture 1968-2008”<BR><BR>Deadline: May 26, 2008<BR><BR>On the fortieth
anniversary of the revolts of 1968, the IPP Summer<BR>School at Mainz takes this
opportunity to examine the persistence in<BR>cultural memory of those events,
their after-effects and their<BR>compelling afterimages.<BR><BR>Under the banner
"Take up the Bodies: Theatricality and Writing/Culture<BR>1968-2008," the IPP
Summer School turns to the excessive and<BR>revolutionarily liberated body as a
means of tracing the various<BR>significances and consequences of what could
perhaps be termed political<BR>performativity, or the artistic, medialized and
theatrical contexts for<BR>continuing and extending the political projects of
1968. Following after<BR>1968, the IPP Summer School at Mainz would like to
inquire into the<BR>conditions of the transformation of the public sphere and
examine the<BR>stakes of theatricality and mediality in producing public
space.<BR>Reacting against the pessimistic assessment of 1968 as a
short-lived<BR>revolution, can one instead view the shift from protesting
politics to<BR>writing a politics of protest as a broadening of the political?
>From a<BR>transcultural and interdisciplinary perspective, the Summer School
would<BR>like to ask these and similar questions: How has the new
corporeality<BR>been negotiated in operatic, musical, dance, dramatic, filmic
and<BR>political performance? What has changed in the strategies of
directors<BR>regarding the literariness of theatrical texts? How has the role
of<BR>theatre as an institution which constitutes identity
fundamentally<BR>altered? How can one understand “writing/culture”? What
new<BR>understandings and acts of performance and performativity have been
made<BR>possible?<BR><BR>The international IPP Summer School at Mainz welcomes
applications for<BR>a 14-day session that includes seminars and plenary talks in
English,<BR>practical workshops and PhD presentation panels. Details at the
link<BR>below. Please send 250-word abstracts for papers in English by May
26,<BR>2008 through the following link: </FONT><A
href="">www.performedia.uni-mainz.de</A><FONT color=#000000>.<BR><BR>A limited
number of TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION GRANTS are available for<BR>graduate students
from abroad – please note that a faculty letter of support is
needed.<BR><BR>Keynotes and Seminars by: Sabine Haenni (Cornell), Friedemann
Kreuder (Mainz), David Levin (Chicago),<BR>Barton Palmer (Clemson), Patrice
Pavis (Paris), Martin Puchner (Columbia), Clemens Risi (Berlin),<BR>Freddie
Rokem (Tel Aviv), Steve Wilmer (Trinity College/Dublin), and
others.<BR><BR>See </FONT><A href="">www.performedia.uni-mainz.de</A><FONT
color=#000000> for further information.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>"Our
devices for mincing human flesh are part of an international machinery. The
whole society is militarized, the state of exception is made permanent, and the
repressive apparatus is endowed with hegemony by the turn of a screw in the
centers of the imperial system." Eduardo
Galeano<BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>“Ladies, just a little more
virginity, if you don’t mind” (spoken to a motley collection of actresses
waiting to play ladies-in-waiting to a Queen).—Herbert Beerbohm Tree, in
Alexander Woollcott, Shouts and Murmurs
(1923).<BR>________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Denis Salter<BR>Dept of English
Drama & Theatre Program</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>McGill</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>853 Sherbrooke St
West</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Montréal [QC]</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>H4V
1X4</FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><STRONG><FONT face=Arial><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A></FONT></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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