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    <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
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      to announce that the keynote speaker at our November symposium, <span
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        Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Stanislavsky -
        Director, Trainer, Pedagogue</span></b><span
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      Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"> in Athens, Greece will
      be <b>Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu</b>, </span><span
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107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:
      EN-US" lang="EN-US">Director of Research at The National Centre
      for Scientific Research (CNRS), and member of Centre Eur’ORBEM
      (CNRS/ Sorbonne Université), Paris.</span>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
              Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">A distinguished
              theatre historian and specialist in Russian and Soviet
              theatre, her many publications include: </span><i
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line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
                mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">The Stanislavsky
                System, Genesis, History, interpretations of an actor’s
                training</span></i><span
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              mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
              lang="EN-US"> (EOE, 2022), </span><i
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                style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The
                Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov</span></i><span
              style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">,
              edited with Yana Meerzon (Routledge, 2015), <i
                style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Soviet Theatre after
                Stalin</i> (I.E.S., 2011) and <i
                style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Stanislavski. The
                Line of physical actions</i> (L’Entretemps, 2007).</span></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
              Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The topic of the
              keynote will be <b>Stanislavsky and Voice Training</b>;
              “Quite often, when one evokes the main contributions of
              the Stanislavsky System, the "method of physical actions"
              immediately comes to mind. Voice training remains a
              little-explored area and is often seen as the last step of
              Stanislavsky's work in his opera-dramatic studio. The aim
              of my paper is to show, on the contrary, that voice
              training was an early preoccupation for Stanislavsky, who
              places his search for a natural voice in the wake of a
              Russian tradition born at the dawn of the 19th century.”</span></p>
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              style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-bidi-font-family:
              Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The deadline for
              submitting proposals for papers, workshops and panel
              presentations for this event has been <b>extended</b>. </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-fareast-font-family:
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              of not more than 300 words should be accompanied by a
              brief biography, and emailed to Dr Michaela Antoniou (</span><a
              href="mailto:michanton@theatre.uoa.gr"
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                mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">michanton@theatre.uoa.gr</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times
              New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-font-kerning:
              0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">) to
              arrive no later than the <b>30th June 2023</b>.</span></p>
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              booking/registration for this event will be available in
              July 2023.</span></p>
          <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Prof. Paul Fryer PhD, FRSA, FHEA.
Visiting Professor, School of Performance and Creative Industries, University of Leeds.
Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Creative Industries, London South Bank University.
Hon. Visiting Professor, School of Arts and Digital Industries, University of East London.
Co-Director, The Stanislavsky Research Centre.
Founding Editor, Stanislavski Studies and Series Editor, Stanislavsky And...(Routledge/Taylor & Francis).</pre>
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