call for papers

[Silvija Jestrovic]

- CALL for PAPERS -

THEATRE and EXILE

An international conference to be held at

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama 

University of Toronto

March 21-23, 2002



Graduate students, faculty and theatre practitioners are invited to submit proposals for

20-minute papers on the theme of theatre and exile to be delivered at the University of Toronto, March 21st - 23rd 2002. 

The broad focus of this international, cross-disciplinary conference will be on phenomena that have played a significant role in the theatrical and political history of the 20th and 21st centuries: exile and emigration, the reconfiguration of boundaries and the significance of place. The conference will attempt to theorize the notion of exile in order to encompass the wide range of borderline phenomena and to imagine practical approaches of transcending traditional oppositions such as own/foreign, nostalgia/familiarity, assimilation/difference as they relate to theatre, drama and theatre practice.

Areas to be explored may include: the directing, staging, performing and reception of exile; theatre of exile and multiculturalism; the politics of race, gender and ethnicity in the performance of exile; isolation, nostalgia and the pleasure of exile; playwrights between two languages; exilic identity and experience in theatre; the role, place and status of émigrés in contemporary theatre.

Proposals should be double-spaced and not more than 300 words. They should be sent by December 1st to: exile_conference at yahoo.com

or by mail to: Conference on Theatre and Exile

Graduate Centre for Study of Drama

214 College Street

Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z9

Canada

Selected conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of Modern Drama.

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