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>           "Litteratus lusus: Continental University Drama"
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>       Thirty-Eighth International Congress on Medieval Studies
>                     Western Michigan University
>                         Kalamazoo, Michigan
>                            8-11 May 2003
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>The International Congress on Medieval Studies invites submissions for a
>Special Session on continental university drama in early modern Europe.
>The session seeks to offer new perspectives on an important sector of
>European theater, one which has intimate ties with humanist learning,
>neoclassicism, and even court and popular playing.
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>Those interested in submitting abstracts should limit their scope to
>university drama originating outside of England. Submissions might address
>but are certainly not limited to the following questions:
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>--How might our contemporary pedagogies usefully employ university plays,
>which were themselves chiefly educational exercises?
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>--What do individual plays and/or performances contribute to our
>understanding of early modern university culture on the European
>continent? Of university curricula?
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>--How do the intellectual climates of specific universities highlight the
>plays that were performed within their walls?
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>--What traces of native, popular, and/or vernacular dramatic elements
>survive in the dominantly neoclassical university drama?
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>--How do the unique performance circumstances of university plays affect
>issues of gender and/or sexuality? Of class?
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>--What material and/or theoretical issues impede investigations into these
>questions?
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>PROPOSALS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 1 SEPTEMBER 2002. Please send all
>submissions by electronic attachment or cut-and-pasted (or if necessary by
>hard copy) to:
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>               Jonathan Walker
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>Home:          2924 North Frederick Avenue
>               Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211
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