Broadening the Horizons of Theater: Geography and Theory
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
Organizer Name
Christopher Swift, Susannah Crowder
Organizer Affiliation
New York City College of Technology, CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Presider Name
Christopher Swift, Susannah Crowder
Paper Title 1
Active Spaces: Representation and Performance at Maigrauge
Presenter 1 Name
Elina Gertsman
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Case Western Reserve Univ.
Paper Title 2
Challenging Theater History: Cognitive Studies and Intermediality
Presenter 2 Name
Lofton L. Durham
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Western Michigan Univ.
Paper Title 3
Performing the Caliphate of Córdoba: Theater and Historiography
Presenter 3 Name
Denise K. Filios
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Iowa
Start Date
16-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2020
Description
As part of the 50th anniversary of the Medieval Congress, MRDS is organizing a series of sessions that will reflect on changes in the field over the past decades and offer a glimpse of what is to come. This session focuses on approaches to drama and performance that have expanded the theoretical methods and geographical scope of our scholarship. New theories from performance studies and the social sciences, as well as an appreciation of a more diverse field of practices, have enriched the discipline. Presenters will be invited to situate their own work within the larger context of drama/performance scholarship and research as well as to suggest possible areas for future development.
Christopher Swift and Susannah Crowder
Broadening the Horizons of Theater: Geography and Theory
Fetzer 2020
As part of the 50th anniversary of the Medieval Congress, MRDS is organizing a series of sessions that will reflect on changes in the field over the past decades and offer a glimpse of what is to come. This session focuses on approaches to drama and performance that have expanded the theoretical methods and geographical scope of our scholarship. New theories from performance studies and the social sciences, as well as an appreciation of a more diverse field of practices, have enriched the discipline. Presenters will be invited to situate their own work within the larger context of drama/performance scholarship and research as well as to suggest possible areas for future development.
Christopher Swift and Susannah Crowder