Update on the MRDS CFP for Kalamazoo:

The deadline for submissions is tomorrow, Sept. 15, so please get your abstracts in ASAP.

Session 3, Liturgical Drama Performance: A Session in Memory of Fletcher Collins, Jr., is now full, as is Session 1, Performance in German-Speaking Lands. Please do not submit any further abstracts for those sessions. We are still considering abstracts for the following sessions:

2) What Theater Studies Brings to Medieval Studies
 
Discussions of medieval theater history often focus primarily on text. This panel considers ways in which interdisciplinary work in performance history and the study of theater--its practice, language, communal nature--enlivens and enriches the study of medieval history.
 
4) Performance in the Early Modern Household
 
Among the most significant discoveries of the past decade is the wealth of documentary evidence of dramatic performances in the great households of late medieval and early modern England.  This session will focus on the plays, personnel, and performing spaces of these private entertainments.


MRDS welcomes papers on any aspects of performance suited to these general topics.

Please submit abstracts for topics 1-4 above by September 15th to Gloria Betcher at the address below. E-mail submissions are preferred because we need to send any abstracts not accepted by MRDS to the conference organizers for general sessions. If you send an abstract, please remember to provide the following:

your name and affiliation,
a title for your paper,
your contact information (including office and home phone numbers, fax number, and e-mail address),
an abstract cover sheet available at http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/41cfp/forms.html and
your A/V or computer needs as required on the abstract cover sheet.
You can fill in the interactive abstract cover sheet online, save a copy, and send it as an E-mail attachment. NOTE THAT WE MUST HAVE AN ABSTRACT COVER SHEET TO PLACE YOUR PAPER IN A SESSION.

We look forward to your submissions!
 

Thanks,
Gloria Betcher