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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