Summer Seminar, Call for Paper, Centre Openning (fwd)

[Kathy Chung]

Hello All!
 
I was passing this info to Drama Centre students via email due to a
temporary removal of our bulletin boards and though I might as well send
it to your too!  Please feel free to fwd this to others or to print
it out and share with fellow students and colleagues.
 
I have made all attempts to proof the text for typos.  If something seems
wrong, please notify me and I will correct it.
 
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(1/3) PERFOMATIVE SUBJECTIVITIES: AGENTS, BODIES, IDENTITIES.
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1996 Penn State Summer Seminar in Theory and Culture
25-29 June 1996
 
Seminars and Leaders include:
 
"Aversive Identities: The Performance of Poetic Politics" - Charles Bernstein
 
"Screening the Live Body: Performativity and the End of Print Culture" -
    Sue-Ellen Case
 
"Affect and Performativity" - Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
 
** For brochure, call: 1-800-PSU-TODAY
   For information about program content, contact Prof. Jeffrey Nealon,
        CMS209 at psuvm.psu.edu
 
 
(2/3) VICTORIAN SPECTACLE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
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** Call for Papers **  Deadline: 15 Feb 1996
 
Conference: 1-4 August 1996
            University of California, Santa Cruz.
 
Topics include:
 
* Victorian Theatricality - performers, theatre technologies, melodramatic
      imagination, musical spectacle
 
* Visual Spectacle - 19th C. painting, realism & spectacle, parades,
      pageants
 
* Spectacle and Culture - museums, circuses, exhibitions, science, spectacle
       of empire
 
* The Spectacle of the Self - hysteria, monomania, staging the self,
      privacy, publicity, scandal, * Representing Spectacle
 
* Representing Spectacle - novelist's display, history & spectacle,
      mystery and illusion
 
* Spectacle on Holiday -  leisure & spectacle, Christmas & other pageants,
      travel, otherness
 
 
Direct questions to: Professor Helena Michie, michie at rice.edu
 
 
 
(3/3) CULTURAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM, CULTURAL STUDIES CENTRE, U OF GUELPH
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The new research Centre for Cultural Studies/Centre d'etudes sur la
culture will be officially opened on 16 Jan 1996 at the launching of the
second annual Cultural Studies Colloquium at U of Guelph.  This year's
colloquium will be on:
 
    "The Politics of Representation/Politique de la representation"
 
The 1996 colloquium features numerous lectures and roundtables over a
three week period in January and February.  Speakers will include, on 16
Jan 1996, Dr Linda Hutcheon (English & Comp. Lit, U of T) and Dr Michael
Hutcheon, M.D.  (Div. Director of Respirology at Toronto Hospital) on "The
Pox and the Prostitute: Gender, Sexuality and Disease in Art, Opera, and
Medicine."
 
For further information, call 1-519-824-4142, ext. 2991 or 3839.
 
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