SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS:
CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN FESTIVE CULTURE
Seminars 2006: Fridays, 2-5 pm,
March 10, March 31, and April 14 at the Newberry Library
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: SEPT. 21, 2005
Dear Colleagues and Friends:
Before reviewing the manner of application to give papers in next year's
seminars, let me mention several other matters. First, you might like to
take a look at our website, which gives general information on the
Center and lists the past seminars (www.festival-studies.org). It's a
work in progress. We plan to insert pictures and add more pages (e.g.,
announcing events such as conferences on festive subjects and important
publications, and listing links to other interesting sites). We will
also create an even better design, so keep looking at it from time to time.
Second, I apologize for the absent summaries for you of this
year's seminars. Some of you have written to say that these summaries
fill out the Center's purpose of giving primacy to deep discussion among
informed scholars, as opposed to the idea of simply affording a showcase
for current work. I do therefore expect to work up such summaries
during this summer.
Those who have regularly reviewed the subjects so far presented
in the seminars will have noticed the preponderance of Euro-American and
politico-historical topics. When I suggested last year that the 2005
seminars be oriented toward problematics of festive visual elements (the
use of signs and symbols, of banners and costuming, of "spectacle" in
all its aspects), no papers were proposed. We decided then to repeat
our theme of 2004, the involvement of politics in festivities. While not
excluding further exploration of that theme, we have decided to open
next year's seminars to any subject of concern to those who wish to
submit papers.
One of the two papers for each of next year’s seminars has been
selected and confirmed. Finishing doctoral students, take note! The
second paper from each of the three seminars has not been selected. To
date no further applications for any of the three dates has been
received. Hence the deadline for application has been extended to
September 21. We are particularly interested in receiving proposals in
the following areas: 20th-century American festivity; earlymodern
European studies of dramatic and/or musical festivities;
anthropologically or folklorically oriented analyses of festivity.
To apply, please send a brief c.v. and a one-page synopsis of the
proposed paper, including a statement about the relation of the paper to
your other work. Send these materials by e-mail either to me, Sam
Kinser, Director, CRFC ([log in to unmask]) or to Erin Lucido, secretary
for the CRFC at the Newberry Library, Chicago ([log in to unmask]).
--
Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask]
List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html>
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page
