CFPs for Take up the Bodies: . . .

[Denis Salter]

IPP International Summer School at Mainz (Germany), July 4th-17th 2008
"Take Up the Bodies: Theatricality and Writing/Culture 1968-2008"

Deadline: May 26, 2008

On the fortieth anniversary of the revolts of 1968, the IPP Summer
School at Mainz takes this opportunity to examine the persistence in
cultural memory of those events, their after-effects and their
compelling afterimages.

Under the banner "Take up the Bodies: Theatricality and Writing/Culture
1968-2008," the IPP Summer School turns to the excessive and
revolutionarily liberated body as a means of tracing the various
significances and consequences of what could perhaps be termed political
performativity, or the artistic, medialized and theatrical contexts for
continuing and extending the political projects of 1968. Following after
1968, the IPP Summer School at Mainz would like to inquire into the
conditions of the transformation of the public sphere and examine the
stakes of theatricality and mediality in producing public space.
Reacting against the pessimistic assessment of 1968 as a short-lived
revolution, can one instead view the shift from protesting politics to
writing a politics of protest as a broadening of the political? From a
transcultural and interdisciplinary perspective, the Summer School would
like to ask these and similar questions: How has the new corporeality
been negotiated in operatic, musical, dance, dramatic, filmic and
political performance? What has changed in the strategies of directors
regarding the literariness of theatrical texts? How has the role of
theatre as an institution which constitutes identity fundamentally
altered? How can one understand "writing/culture"? What new
understandings and acts of performance and performativity have been made
possible?

The international IPP Summer School at Mainz welcomes applications for
a 14-day session that includes seminars and plenary talks in English,
practical workshops and PhD presentation panels. Details at the link
below. Please send 250-word abstracts for papers in English by May 26,
2008 through the following link: www.performedia.uni-mainz.de.

A limited number of TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATION GRANTS are available for
graduate students from abroad - please note that a faculty letter of support is needed.

Keynotes and Seminars by: Sabine Haenni (Cornell), Friedemann Kreuder (Mainz), David Levin (Chicago),
Barton Palmer (Clemson), Patrice Pavis (Paris), Martin Puchner (Columbia), Clemens Risi (Berlin),
Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv),  Steve Wilmer (Trinity College/Dublin), and others.

See www.performedia.uni-mainz.de for further information.
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"Our devices for mincing human flesh are part of an international machinery. The whole society is militarized, the state of exception is made permanent, and the repressive apparatus is endowed with hegemony by the turn of a screw in the centers of the imperial system." Eduardo Galeano
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"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind" (spoken to a motley collection of actresses waiting to play ladies-in-waiting to a Queen).-Herbert Beerbohm Tree, in Alexander Woollcott, Shouts and Murmurs (1923).
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Denis Salter
Dept of English Drama & Theatre Program
McGill
853 Sherbrooke St West
Montréal [QC]
H4V 1X4
denis.salter at mcgill.ca

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