<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">Call for Papers:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">A conference at the University of Malta, </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black">20/21 March 2015</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">The School of Performing Arts (University
of Malta) will be holding its annual conference on the following theme: <i>Performance and Interdisciplinarity</i>. The
focus of the conference will be on interdisciplinarity in performance and the
performing arts, and how this connects to other disciplines from Science and
the Humanities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Interdisciplinary research and practices
answer to what Richard Schechner calls the phenomenon of ‘blurry boundaries’,
where the decidedly premodern approach of distilling fine categories and
certainties has given way to ideas of continuum across different fields. Performance
is charged with interdisciplinarity to become a paradigm and concretisation of
such discourses. The conference will take as a point of departure the eight overlapping
performance categories elaborated by Schechner: everyday life, the arts,
sports, business, technology, sex, ritual, and play. The performing arts
themselves are a space where these categories are combined in an endless stream
of permutations. These may range from the ways that theatre, dance, and music
draw material from but also impinge upon everyday life; to training in
performance and in sports; the drive for ‘efficacy’ and ‘efficiency’ that is
shared with business; and the ever-increasing use<a name="_GoBack"></a> of the
performing arts as an area for technological innovation. The idea that the performing arts appertain
to the fields of the Humanities also needs to be taken into consideration, due
to the strong ties that theatre, dance, and music have with the disciplines of
philosophy, history, critical theory, sociology, politics, and others. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">The conference </span><i style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Performance and Interdisciplinarity </i><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">aims to contribute to these
(and other) discourses on interdisciplinarity, within the practices and
theorizations of both performance in general as well as the performing arts in
particular. The conference also attaches importance to establishing links with
other disciplines such as Digital Technology and Digital Gaming, Cognitive
Science, the Creative and Tourism Industries, Critical Theory, History and
Historiography, the Fine Arts, and Philosophy.</span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Proposals along these lines are therefore
welcome, and may include discussions on such topics as:</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">interdisciplinary
performance and research; </span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">interdisciplinarity in
the performing arts;</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">links between performance
and other disciplines, including but not restricted to those listed above;</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">difficulties of
interdisciplinarity, e.g. what Mieke Bal refers to as ‘vague objects of enquiry
and muddled methodology’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Proposals (maximum 250 words) are hereby invited,
and they should be submitted to Dr Stefan Aquilina on </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%"><a href="mailto:stefan.aquilina@um.edu.mt"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">stefan.aquilina@um.edu.mt</span></a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">by the 21 January 2015. Presentations by two or
more presenters, sharing a common theme or interdisciplinary approach, are
particularly welcome.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The Conference will feature Dr Laura Cull
(University of Surrey) as Keynote Speaker. </span></p>
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