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• 30 nov 2018

  Call for papers - Language

  An autopsy of literary failure

  8th workshop of the COnTEXTES group

  L'échec littéraire peut s'entendre aussi bien comme exclusion des instances de consécration spécifiques à la fraction du champ dans laquelle l'auteur souhaite s'investir, que comme absence ou quasi-absence de l'historiographie. L'objectif du colloque n'est pas tant de chercher à réhabiliter des écrivains méconnus que de mettre au jour des logiques de l'exclusion symbolique.

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• 15 oct 2018

  Oldenbourg en Holstein

  Call for papers - Representation

  Performing Music History

  Music history is a matter of research, it is a matter of novels, films, comics or computer games. Also: Music history is subject matter to music theater. Performances of music history lie at the center of this conference: Be it André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry’s opera prologue “Les trois ages de l’opéra”, Hans Pfitzner’s opera “Palestrina” or Franz Wittenbrink’s revue “Die Comedian Harmonists”, Heinrich Berté’s Schubert-operetta “Das Dreimäderlhaus”, Randy Johnson’s musical “A night with Janis Joplin”, or Mauricio Kagel’s Liederoper “Aus Deutschland” – historical musicians, artistic agency and musical artifacts have been negotiated in music theater for centuries. Music theater deals with a broad spectrum of music history, spanning from the medieval troubadours to the present creations of Pop, Rock, Jazz and New Music.

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• 15 sep 2018

  Paris

  Call for papers - Representation

  Nostalgia in the Theatre

  Homesickness, fantasy of a Golden Age, vintage fad, “morbus helveticus”, or simply outdatedness, nostalgia does not have a set definition. Rather, it constitutes a cultural praxis whose forms and meanings evolve continuously between three spatio-temporal poles: the space-time of actors mobilizing nostalgia as a practice, the space-time of the desired object, and the space-time of researchers who study these phenomena. The colloquium “Nostalgia in the Theatre” aims to open a new field of research in theatre studies by focusing attention on the study of the mobilization and the rhetoric of nostalgia in the theatre. Researchers are encouraged to identify and problematize how nostalgia as a practice has been used in the theatre in the past and how it is used in contemporary performing arts today in order to better understand how theatrical practices can generate a counter-history or alternative historical narratives. 

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