Last Call for Papers:
For the International Congress at Leeds University
8-11 July 2002
The Records of Early English Drama project is sponsoring a series of
interdisciplinary sessions focussing on REEDıs contribution to late medieval
and early modern cultural history (to 1642). REEDıs participation in the
Congress at Leeds University in 2002 is designed to celebrate and evaluate
the projectıs work as it marks its 25th anniversary. We hope that a
reception open to conference participants and the performance of a play
(staged with reference to aspects of REED research) will also be included.
Overall, the sessions will encompass the concept that underlies the project,
the projectıs performance (relative to research, publications and scholarly
contribution to date) and its destination (an informed prediction as to
REEDıs eventual achievement in various contexts, and an introduction to a
new generation of researchers). An additional open discussion with topics
introduced by panelists is also planned as a less formal evening event.
Each 1 and 1/2 hour session, with the exception of the first and last, will
feature an invited keynote speaker, followed by two papers and discussion.
Performance (3 sessions) will provide analysis of REEDıs achievement to
date, based on its current publications and allied research projects:
I. Method (research, preparation and publication of materials)
II. Drama (topics related to early professional theatre traditions and
performance)
III. Cultural Activity (topics related to popular entertainment or to
cultural, historical, political perspectives, drawing on the allied but
wider range of materials uncovered by REED)
Destination (2 sessions) will seek to predict the nature of REEDıs ultimate
contribution to scholarship:
I. Achievement (eg, How might its findings go on to stimulate revision of
broad aspects of English cultural history and/or provide a fruitful basis
for the development of different forms of interdisciplinary scholarship?)
II. REED - The Next Generation, a contribution from three young scholars,
with markedly different resources and training, who have worked with REED on
various projects.
Papers, timed for a 20-minute delivery, are now invited for Performance
II-III and Destination I. Preferably, papers submitted should make a number
of wide-ranging points within an overall delineated field since the aim of
the sessions is to invite a broad critique of REEDıs achievement rather than
the customary detailed research into one or more topics.
The deadline for submissions is 15 September/01. Abstracts of papers (or
any other correspondence) should be forwarded to Audrey Douglas at
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