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Please note that you should send any questions to the panel organiser directly (address below) and not to the list (since he won't see them here!) AAY ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew W. White <[log in to unmask]> For the 25th Comparative Drama Conference, to be held at Ohio State University April 26-28, 2001, I will be organizing at least one panel on _Byzantine, Medieval & Late Roman Drama_. The topic area is intentionally broad, in part because the study of Byzantine performance practice, sacred and secular, is one with quite a wide range of possibilities. By "Byzantine" is meant, initially, the Eastern Roman Empire based in the capitol of Constantinople, traditionally dated 330-1453. But the Eastern Empire's roots extend back to the culture of Ancient Greece and Rome, and geographically Byzantium's influence -- military, political and/or cultural -- extended from Gibraltar to Siberia, from England to Ethiopia, and, very likely, beyond. In addition, this Christian empire's regular contacts with Muslim and Western culture ensured a long, fertile period of debates on issues of liturgical practice, aesthetics, drama and performance that all bear closer scrutiny. Possible topic areas are myriad, but aside from more traditional inquiry can also include comparative analyses of religious ritual/liturgy from the standpoint of the drama; issues of dramatic structure, orality and/or performativity in sacred text; the drama in Egypt and North Africa; Islamic vs. Christian concepts of drama; dramatic structure in hymnography; and music and the drama. In the spirit of the original CFP for the Comparative Drama Conference you may have already received, I would like to reiterate that for this panel, "Papers may be comparative across disciplines, periods or nationalities, may deal with any issue in dramatic theory and criticism, or any method of historiography, translation, or production." Questions are more than welcome, and depending on the response we may have more than one session. I would appreciate it if abstracts could be submitted to me by November 1. Many thanks, Andrew Walker White Department of Theatre University of Maryland, College Park [log in to unmask]