Wednesday 20 March 2013

Call for Papers: Culture in Crisis


The Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group are delighted to release the Call for Papers for Culture in Crisis, a one-day postgraduate colloquium held at Goldsmiths, University of London. This will be our seventh annual colloquium organised specifically for postgraduate students, providing them with a space to meet their peers and share their ideas.

Please find the Call for Papers below. The colloquium will take place on Friday 31 May 2013 and the deadline for abstract submission is Monday 8 April.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Culture in Crisis
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
31 May 2013
Goldsmiths, University of London

How can a crisis be said to influence, shape or threaten culture? Taking into consideration the wide range of crises that face societies past and present, this student-led colloquium for postgraduates will explore the various ways in which culture is practised in times of crisis.

This call for papers invites postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines and with interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the relationship between culture and crisis. Responses to this question can refer, but are not limited to: economic crises; political crises, including wars and revolutions; social crises; moral crises; religious crises; how geological crises and natural disasters – Tsunamis, earthquakes, and avalanches – impact social groups, and how their responses to these crises are culturally enacted; and whether culture can, itself, be said to be in crisis.

Culture in Crisis is the seventh annual postgraduate colloquium organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group (STPRG) at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the direction of Professor Maria Shevtsova. This event will draw on the issues of process and transmission examined in previous colloquia, including Appropriating Space (2008), Bodies and Socio-Histories (2010) and The Politics of Practice (2012). Culture in Crisis will provide an opportunity for postgraduates to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research, delegates will be invited to participate in roundtable discussions. The STPRG is committed to facilitating opportunities for postgraduates across the globe to come together and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We warmly welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com.

Deadline for applications is 8 April 2013

Please don’t hesitate to contact us on stpr.group@gmail.com with any queries you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper, Kyoko Iwaki, Rebecca McFadden and Arabella Stanger

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group
Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London

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