Call for Abstracts 2

[Dr. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe]

The International Society for the Study of European Ideas, ISSEI, will hold
its 8th=20
International Conference at the University of Haifa, Israel, August   16 to
21, 1998.=20

At this conference, I will chair a workshop entitled=20

*Theatre and Consciousness: The Psychology of Performance*

Some of the questions that might be discussed at the workshop include:=20
What happens in the minds of actors while performing? Do they get involved=
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emotionally? Do they identify with the characters they play? Do/can they
experience=20
altered states of consciousness, such as translumination? How do they wind=
 down=20
after a performance? What happens in the minds of spectators while watching=
 a=20
play? Do they identify with the character, or with the actor, or not at all?
What is=20
involved in catharsis, and who experiences it, first actor and then
spectator, or only=20
the spectator by whatever the actors do on stage? How do Western and non-
Western approaches to one or more of these issues differ? What can be gained
from=20
an intercultural approach?

1 January 1998  Deadline for 1-page abstracts.=20
1 February 1998 my response to all those who submitted an abstract
1 June 1998     Deadline for completed papers, maximum 3000 words

50% of all conference papers will be published in the journal of the ISSEI,
*The=20
European Legacy*.   For further details about ISSEI, see Internet page
http://www-
mitpress.mit.edu/jrnls-catalog/euro-legacy.html

All communication to=20
Dr. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgr=E4fe
Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies
University of Wales Aberystwyth
1 Laura Place, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2AU
Wales, UK
Fax ++44 1970 622831  email: dam at aber.ac.uk