Major Conference: "Modern : Drama: defining the field"

[Ric Knowles]

MODERN : DRAMA
defining the field
A CONFERENCE
May 5 - 7, 2000
University of Toronto

for immediate release
Contact Conference Administrators at moddrama at hotmail.com

On the weekend of May 5th-7th, 2000, a gathering of invited leading
scholars in the field will assemble at the Robert Gill Theatre at the
invitation of the journal _Modern Drama_ and the Graduate Centre for Study
of Drama.  As we enter a new century and a new millennium, the conference
will venture to reconsider the terms "modern," and "drama," to map the
field of "modern drama" studies, and to reconsider the mandate of the
leading journal in the field.

Among the prominent scholars attending will be Susan Bennett, Sue-Ellen
Case, Elin Diamond, Harry Elam, Alan Filewod, Stanton Garner, Shannon
Jackson, Adrian Kiernander, Loren Kruger, Josephine Lee, Tejumola
Olaniyan, Peggy Phelan, Sheila Rabillard, David Savran, Michael Sidnell,
Robert Wallace, and Ann Wilson, together with Modern Drama editors Ric
Knowles, Joanne Tompkins, W.B. Worthen, and Penny Farfan.

Highlights of the program include:

Gendering Modern Drama
Modern Drama:  Souvenir or Cyberscript?
The "Modern" in "Modern Drama"
August Wilson and African-American Drama
Women, Modernism, and Performance
Left Wing Configurations of Modernist Theatricality and Textuality:
_Newfoundland Night_ and _White Man's Burden_
Why Modern Drama is Not Culture:  Blindspots in Literature, Theatre, and
Cultural Studies
Drama vs Performance:  Disciplinary Disputes and other Theatricals
The "Other" in Modern Drama:  The Politics of Staging Racial Formation
The Subject of Modern African Drama
Staging the Letter:  Ibsen and _A Doll's House_
Gurus and Manifestos
Aesthetic Prejudice in Modern Drama
Revisiting Raymond Williams
Articulating the Colon:  The Performance of Punctuation

For students attending the conference, a special series of lunchtime
meetings will be arranged with some of
the invited speakers.  Spaces in these sessions are limited, and
pre-registration is required.  For a list of
speakers and availability, please contact Lisa Fitzpatrick at
moddrama at hotmail.com.

The conference is free of charge.  Conference participants will also be
invited to attend a reception and an exciting production of a new
translation of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of An Author, directed
by Guillaume Bernardi.

Please note that conference participants and topics are subject to change.
 To receive updates on the conference program, please contact the
Conference Administrators at moddrama at hotmail.com or visit our
web site at http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca and click on Modern : Drama
Conference (note that this is not a www address).

Modern : Drama Conference
May 5 - 7, 2000
Robert Gill Theatre
214 College St., 3rd floor
Toronto, ON    M5T 2Z9
Conference Administrators:  Lisa Fitzpatrick, Corinne Rusch-Drutz, Deborah
Tihanyi
e-mail:  moddrama at hotmail.com
http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca