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), āāOne of Those Incomprehensible German Charactersā: German Heroes, French Playwrights, and the Performance of Romantic Masculinityā
- (European Studies, Dalhousie), āPerforming National Masculinity: Thomas Moore and the Voice of the Bardā
The Problem of History
Chair: (History, Dalhousie)
- (Kingās), āThe Trace of theĀ Untranslatable: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Translation after the Shoahā
- (European Studies, Dalhousie), āHans-JĆ¼rgen Syberberg and the Performance of Historyā
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(University College Dublin), āFrom SeanchaĆ to Screen: The āIrishmanā in Irish- Language Drama and Filmā
Day 2
Constructing Aristocracy
Chair: (European Studies, Dalhousie)
- (History, Dalhousie), āThe Performance of Ducal Identities in Medieval Silesia ā Charters as Media of Communicationā
- Estelle Joubert (Music, Dalhousie), āPerforming Politics on the Opera Stage: Maria Antoniaās Self-Stylization as Saxon Princessā
- Sally Colwell (English, Western University), āāSexy Tudorsā: Back to the Beginning and Baring It All in Showtimeās Racy (un)Costume(d) Dramaā
Creating European Subjects
Chair: (English, Dalhousie)
- Anthony J. Harding (English, University of Saskatchewan),āThe London Magazine: Creating a Metro-cosmo-politan Readershipā
- (English, Western University), āPerforming Crisis: Europe, Romantic Psychiatry, and the Economics of Happinessā
The Spectacle of Modernity
Chair: (European Studies, Dalhousie)
- and (English, Dalhousie), āSpectatorship in the Early Modern Periodā
- (English, Dalhousie), āR. U. ... ?: Queering Robots in Karel Äapekās
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Staging Encounter
Chair: Patricia Cove
- , āāThe oak is my page, the forest, my bookā: Le Brunās Canadian Heroides ā
- , āThe 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.