Fwd: Mid America Theatre Conference call for proposals OCT 15 SUBMISSION DEADLINE

[Ann Haugo]

Begin forwarded message:
>
> (with apologies for cross posting)
> Please share with colleagues and students:
>
> The 30th Annual
> Mid-America Theatre Conference
> Hyatt Regency Chicago
> March 5-8, 2009
>
> POOR THEATRE?
>
> The Mid-America Theatre Conference invites scholarly inquiries/ 
> investigations in the areas of Acting and Directing, Pedagogy,  
> Playwriting, and Theatre History that can be linked to the notion  
> of “Poor Theatre,” broadly construed.
>
> In the 1960s, Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory Theatre leveled a  
> set of challenges at the theory and practice of theatre in the face  
> of the shifting aesthetic, political, and economic landscapes of  
> art in the twentieth century. For the thirtieth-annual MATC  
> conference we seek to put a finger on current and emerging  
> challenges to contemporary art and scholarship of theatre:
>
> What are the difficulties of producing and teaching theatre in  
> times of economic hardship? As formerly-rigid boundaries between  
> high-brow and low-brow taste increasingly give way to irony and  
> pastiche, with what criteria do we judge whether a work is good or  
> poor in quality or achievement?  With the advent of new pedagogical  
> paradigms increasingly targeted toward learning styles and  
> dispositions, who is to say what is good or poor teaching?  And  
> with the dark economic forecasts for the national/global economy,  
> what is the state/fate of our University theatre programs? Our  
> research? Academic Theatre?
>
> Go to the MATC website http://www.wiu.edu/matc/ for Calls for Papers:
>
> Acting & Directing Symposium
> Pedagogy Symposium
> Playwriting Symposium
> Theatre History Symposium
> Emerging Scholars Panels
> Articles-In-Progress Workshop
>
> Submission deadlines Oct 15
>

Ann Haugo
Assistant Professor
School of Theatre
Campus Box 5700
Illinois State University
Normal IL 61790

(309) 438-3955

P Please consider the environment before printing this email.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/candrama/attachments/20080915/2700e05e/attachment.html>