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</font><font size="3" face="sans-serif">Call for Papers for the International Conference</font><div align="center"><br>
<font size="3" face="sans-serif"><b>“Crossing Boundaries: Commedia Dell’ Arte Across Gender, Genre, and Geography”</b></font><br>
<font size="3" face="sans-serif"><b>February 15 – 17, 2013, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.</b></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Organized by the School of Dramatic Art and Humanities Research Group </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">at the University of Windsor.</font></div><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">This two-and-a-half day conference features the well known author, playwright, and translator, John Rudlin, and renowned guest artist, Antonio Fava. </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The schedule of activities offers a rare opportunity to work with well known international guests and includes a key-note address and plenary panel discussion with John Rudlin and workshops by Maestro Fava. In addition, participants can expect exciting lecture-demonstrations, international scholarly paper presentations, actor training techniques, student and guest performances, a mask exhibition, literature reviews, and discussions in historical and gender perspectives in cultural studies.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:</font>
<ul style="padding-left: 18pt"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">The transmission of performance knowledge in the Golden Age of the Commedia Dell’ Arte; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Performance text and the impromptu tradition; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Specific training approaches: Meyerhold, Giorgio Strehler and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Antonio Fava, Jacques Lecoq; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Specific aspects of training related to research in improvisation, comic tempi, dialects, grammelot, mask performance technique, mask design and creation; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Transgression of Commedia Dell’ Arte in gender studies; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Commedia Dell’ Arte in other performing arts: circus, opera, puppetry, etc; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Commedia Dell’ Arte and interculturalism; </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Commedia Dell’ Arte and Shakespeare characters. </font></ul>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">The conference is open to various presentation formats; from academic presentations with a historical focus to lecture-demonstrations. Presentations may be in English or French and should be 20 minutes in length for paper presentations and 60 - 90 minutes for lecture-demonstrations or workshops.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Proposals should include the following:</font>
<ul style="padding-left: 18pt"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Your name, title (faculty, independent scholar, practitioner, artist), and academic or company affiliation.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Your contact information (particularly email) and a short bio.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">The format of your presentation and time frame.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">The title and abstract for your paper or presentation. Please limit abstracts to 250 words.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">· </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any special requests, technical requirements, and/or space needs for your presentation.</font></ul>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Please direct queries and proposals in Word format to the conference chairperson and organizer: Gina Lori Riley at the following address: </font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><b>commedia2013@uwindsor.ca</b></font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">All proposals must be received by October 31, 2012. Emails of acceptance will be sent by November 15, 2012. </font></body></html>