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European Studies Colloquium 2012 Programme

Performing Europe / European Performances

Organized by the Centre for European Studies, pilipiliĀž»­

27-28 April 2012, McCain 2021

Day 1

Romantic Masculinity

Chair: (English, Western University)

  • (Theatre, Dalhousie), ā€œā€™One of Those Incomprehensible German Charactersā€™: German Heroes, French Playwrights, and the Performance of Romantic Masculinityā€
  • (European Studies, Dalhousie), ā€œPerforming National Masculinity: Thomas Moore and the Voice of the Bardā€

The Problem of History

Chair: (History, Dalhousie)

  • (Kingā€™s), ā€œThe Trace of theĀ Untranslatable: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Translation after the Shoahā€
  • (European Studies, Dalhousie), ā€œHans-JĆ¼rgen Syberberg and the Performance of Historyā€

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(University College Dublin), ā€œFrom SeanchaĆ­ to Screen: The ā€˜Irishmanā€™ in Irish- Language Drama and Filmā€

Day 2

Constructing Aristocracy

Chair: (European Studies, Dalhousie)

  • (History, Dalhousie), ā€œThe Performance of Ducal Identities in Medieval Silesia ā€“ Charters as Media of Communicationā€
  • Estelle Joubert (Music, Dalhousie), ā€œPerforming Politics on the Opera Stage: Maria Antoniaā€™s Self-Stylization as Saxon Princessā€
  • Sally Colwell (English, Western University), ā€œā€™Sexy Tudorsā€™: Back to the Beginning and Baring It All in Showtimeā€™s Racy (un)Costume(d) Dramaā€

Creating European Subjects

Chair: (English, Dalhousie)

  • Anthony J. Harding (English, University of Saskatchewan),ā€œThe London Magazine: Creating a Metro-cosmo-politan Readershipā€
  • (English, Western University), ā€œPerforming Crisis: Europe, Romantic Psychiatry, and the Economics of Happinessā€

The Spectacle of Modernity

Chair: (European Studies, Dalhousie)

  • and (English, Dalhousie), ā€œSpectatorship in the Early Modern Periodā€
  • (English, Dalhousie), ā€œR. U. ... ?: Queering Robots in Karel Čapekā€™s
    R. U. R.
    ā€

Staging Encounter

Chair: Patricia Cove

  • , ā€œā€™The oak is my page, the forest, my bookā€™: Le Brunā€™s Canadian Heroides ā€œ
  • , ā€œThe Theatre of War: Naval Impressment, Nation, and the Performance of Historyā€

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.Ā  Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and historicalĀ 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.Ā  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 pilipiliĀž»­. 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.