Call for Papers

[Kattwinkel, Susan Ellen]

Call for Papers
Theatre, War and Propaganda

The SETC Theatre Symposium
April 1-3, 2005
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama

Keynote Speakers

Bruce A. McConachie
University of Pittsburgh
Author of American Theatre in the Culture of the Cold War: Producing and Contesting Containment, 1947-1962

Alan Woods
The Ohio State University
Director, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute

The 2005 SETC Theatre Symposium invites papers that explore the ways in which the theatre has both been used and received as an organ of propaganda, particularly in times of national and international crises. We particularly encourage submission of papers that deal with the ways the theatre has responded to war, its buildup, aftermath and political consequences.

Topics explored may include:

? Theatrical responses to 9/11
? Ways in which the theatre of Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union responded to the Cold War
? Responses to the war in Viet Nam
?  Wartime censorship
? Theatre under authoritarian or totalitarian regimes
? Agitprop theatre
? Re-stagings of classic texts for purposes of propaganda or ways in which certain productions come to be seen as ideological and political statements in times of crisis
? Stage depictions of the “enemy.”
? Revolutionary and counterrevolutionary theatre
? Other explorations and expansions of this theme are encouraged

Selected conference papers will be published in the journal Theatre Symposium, a publication of the Southeastern Theatre Conference and the University of Alabama Press.


Deadline: January 14, 2005

Paper abstracts should be sent to

Dr. Scott Phillips
Department of Theatre
211 Telfair Peet Theatre
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849

Or by email attachment to phillm2 at auburn.edu

Questions concerning the 2005 Symposium may be sent to Scott Phillips via email or by phone at (334) 844-4748.