ASTR 2013 Working Session: "Beyond the Turn: Performance Philosophy Now"

[Gabriella Calchi Novati]

*Apologies for Cross Posting.*

Please read the Call for Proposals below and circulate to anyone who may
find it interesting.

REMINDER: Proposals due *June 3 2013 *for ASTR working session

*"Beyond the Turn: Performance Philosophy Now" *
*Conveners: *
Will Daddario, University of Minnesota (w.daddario at gmail.com)
Gabriella Calchi-Novati, Trinity College Dublin (calching at tcd.ie)


The international, interdisciplinary research network known as Performance
Philosophy seeks to draw upon and develop the philosophical activity alive
within ASTR’s membership to determine the benefits, challenges, theoretical
obstacles, and performative potential Performance Philosophy offers to
scholars and practitioners in the present moment.

Understood not as a “turn” in the fields of theatre or performance studies
but, rather, as a new field in its own right involving researchers based in
a wide range of disciplines, Performance Philosophy presents the
possibility of thinking theatre and performance anew, against the backdrop
of current philosophical debates. Performance philosophers understand those
debates to have the ability to thrust theatre and performance events into a
new light, while, simultaneously, recognizing that the specific material
conditions of theatre and performance events have the ability to invest
philosophical concepts with new life. Building on the momentum of recent
works such as Martin Puchner’s *The Drama of Ideas* and Laura Cull’s* Theatres
of Immanence*, this working session requests paper proposals from scholars
and practitioners involved in the interplay between performance and
philosophy. Specifically, papers might pursue the following avenues:

   - the application of philosophy to the analysis of performance;
   - the philosophy of performance and/or the performance of philosophy;
   - the study of how philosophers and philosophical ideas have been staged
   in performance or how ideas and images of performance have figured in
   philosophy;
   - the theoretical or practical exploration of philosophy as performance
   and/or as performative; and likewise, experiments emerging from the idea
   that performance is a kind of philosophy or thinking or theorizing in
   itself.

Please compose 500-word proposals that present an abstract of your paper
and a brief description of how the paper relates to your primary area of
research. Proposals should include complete contact information and
organizational affiliation (if any).

Send your proposal (as MS Word attachments) *to both conveners by June 3,
2013*.

After selecting participants who engage with such themes, we will group the
papers together by theme and create sub-groups. We will ask members of each
sub-group to attend to the interconnection of themes evident in the initial
abstracts so as to build connections between the papers. Individuals
accepted to the working session will be expected to submit full 10- to
12-page papers *no later than October 1, 2013*, in order to facilitate
pre-conference conversations.

URL: http://www.astr.org/conference/2013-working-session-cfps#ppn (from
which you'll be able to find the other Working Sessions)

-- 
Dr. Gabriella Calchi-Novati
Lecturer
Drama Department
Trinity College Dublin

calching at tcd.ie


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