European Studies Colloquium 2012 Programme
Performing Europe / European Performances
Organized by the Centre for European Studies, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播
27-28 April 2012, McCain 2021
Day 1
Romantic Masculinity
Chair: (English, Western University)
- (Theatre, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥溾橭ne of Those Incomprehensible German Characters鈥: German Heroes, French Playwrights, and the Performance of Romantic Masculinity鈥
- (European Studies, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淧erforming National Masculinity: Thomas Moore and the Voice of the Bard鈥
The Problem of History
Chair: (History, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播)
- (King鈥檚), 鈥淭he Trace of the聽Untranslatable: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Translation after the Shoah鈥
- (European Studies, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淗ans-J眉rgen Syberberg and the Performance of History鈥
碍别测苍辞迟别听
(University College Dublin), 鈥From Seancha铆 to Screen: The 鈥業rishman鈥 in Irish- Language Drama and Film鈥
Day 2
Constructing Aristocracy
Chair: (European Studies, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播)
- (History, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淭he Performance of Ducal Identities in Medieval Silesia 鈥 Charters as Media of Communication鈥
- Estelle Joubert (Music, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淧erforming Politics on the Opera Stage: Maria Antonia鈥檚 Self-Stylization as Saxon Princess鈥
- Sally Colwell (English, Western University), 鈥溾橲exy Tudors鈥: Back to the Beginning and Baring It All in Showtime鈥檚 Racy (un)Costume(d) Drama鈥
Creating European Subjects
Chair: (English, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播)
- Anthony J. Harding (English, University of Saskatchewan),鈥淭he London Magazine: Creating a Metro-cosmo-politan Readership鈥
- (English, Western University), 鈥淧erforming Crisis: Europe, Romantic Psychiatry, and the Economics of Happiness鈥
The Spectacle of Modernity
Chair: (European Studies, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播)
- and (English, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淪pectatorship in the Early Modern Period鈥
- (English, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播), 鈥淩. U. ... ?: Queering Robots in Karel 膶apek鈥檚
R. U. R.鈥
Staging Encounter
Chair: Patricia Cove
- , 鈥溾橳he oak is my page, the forest, my book鈥: Le Brun鈥檚 Canadian Heroides 鈥
- , 鈥淭he Theatre of War: Naval Impressment, Nation, and the Performance of History鈥
Journal Launch and Closing Remarks
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Call for Papers
For the second annual colloquium in European Studies, we invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes which deal with the ways that Europe is or has been performed.聽 Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and historical聽periods, from antiquity to the present. Possible topics include:
- Performances of identity (e.g., national, inter-national, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class)
- Theatre and other spectacles
- Cinema, television, new media, etc.
- The concept of performativity in contemporary European Studies
- Literary approaches to performance and/or performativity
- Politics and performance
- The theatre of the law, the law of the theatre
- The European Theatre
It goes without saying that these are suggestions, and that we welcome all manner of proposals which engage with Europe and the way it is performed.聽 We will also be launching a new peer-reviewed e-journal, European Studies: History, Society and Culture, to be published by the Centre for European Studies at 新加坡六合彩开奖直播. We are hoping to make a selection of the papers from the colloquium a significant part of the first issue of the journal, due out in early 2013.
Please send a 250-word proposal by 16 January 2012 to Julia.Wright@Dal.Ca or Jerry.White@Dal.Ca.