Shift, Issue 10, Call for Papers

Submission deadline: March 22, 2017

http://shiftjournal.org

Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture welcomes academic papers, exhibition and book reviews, translations of important texts into English, as well as other texts—of traditional or experimental format— addressing issues relevant to our visual and material world from current graduate students. Continue reading Due Mar 22 | CFP – Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture (Issue 10) →

The Teaching and Learning Center invites members of the CUNY community to contribute to Visible Pedagogy’s “Teach@CUNY Series,“ which spotlights actual assignments, activities, and approaches being used in CUNY classrooms. Continue reading Inviting Contributions to Visible Pedagogy’s Teach@CUNY Series →

Call for Papers
Deadline Extended to February 15

ATHE’s Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group:
The Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance

The Music Theatre/Dance (MT/D) Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education

(ATHE) announces its call for papers for the Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel in Music Theatre/Dance at the 2017 ATHE conference in Las Vegas, Nevada from August 3-6, 2017.

This annual panel is held in memory of Professor Bruce Kirle, scholar of musical theatre and longtime member of the Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group. Dr. Jessica Sternfeld, Associate Professor of Musicology at Chapman University and author of The Megamusical, will serve as this year’s respondent.

Paper submissions may concern any area within the purview of the Music Theatre/Dance Focus Group, which encompasses opera, operetta, musical theatre, dance theatre, performance art with music or dance elements, and pedagogy of music theatre and dance. Paper submissions may also address intersections of ability, class, race, gender, nationality, and sexuality in global musical theatre/dance broadly construed.

Submissions are open to graduate students and scholars who have not yet presented at a national conference, as well as established scholars who have not previously presented or published in the areas of music theatre or dance. Scholars must not be scheduled to present on music theatre or dance topics at any other national conference prior to the submission date, and papers may not be cross-submitted to another ATHE panel for the 2017 conference. Scholars may, however, present or serve on other panels at this conference.

For consideration, please e-mail your paper, 10 to 12 pages in length, as a Microsoft Word attachment to mtdgradrep@gmail.com by February 15, 2017. Please include a cover page with your name, paper title, institutional affiliation, and contact information, but remove your name from the body of the essay.

Three papers will be selected by a blind peer-review committee for inclusion on this competitive panel. The selected authors will be expected to attend the conference in Las Vegas and to present their papers there. They will receive a copy of Bruce Kirle’s “Unfinished Show Business” generously donated by his family, a yearlong subscription to “Studies in Musical Theatre” (Intellect Books), and their essays will be prepared for publication in that journal.

Please direct any and all questions to mtdgradrep@gmail.com.

For more information on the ATHE 2017 conference, visit http://www.athe.org[athe.org].

“Methods?: A Workshop on Methodology, Field Research, and Theory”

Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Theory Workshop: Methods?

April 6, 2017, The Graduate Center

Room 5414, All Day

Hosted by SPTSA: Social and Political Theory Graduate Student Association

About the Workshop/Mini Conference

The Fourth Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Workshop/Mini Conference on Theory, sponsored by the Social and Political Theory Student Association (SPTSA), will bring together GC students from different disciplines and perspectives to explore what it means to “do” theory. Its objectives are threefold. First, we seek to provide an opportunity for students to practice presenting and receiving feedback on works in progress in a supportively critical environment. Second, we hope to generate unexpected connections between people, concepts, orientations, and modes of theorizing. Third, we seek to build community across disciplines for GC students doing theoretical work. The workshop thus serves as a space in which we can practice taking apart the boundaries that constrain and discipline different theoretical endeavors.

Submissions and Panels

Submissions of a 300-word abstract for in-progress papers, presentations, or performances are due by February 24, 2017; notifications should be sent out in late February. Please use the Submission Form[goo.gl] to send in your abstracts.

Each panel will have a graduate student discussant. We request that all participants read the projects of their co-panelists in order to facilitate discussion.

Methods?

In academia today, interdisciplinarity is necessary and valuable to understand social and political phenomena. Many scholars in the social sciences and humanities engage in inspiring research that transcends the confines of their own fields by integrating the research tools traditionally used by other disciplines. The downside of this trend is that there is no “interdisciplinary how-to guide,” rendering trial-and-error the only option for younger researchers. The task becomes even more challenging for students whose research is not only interdisciplinary, but also intends to combine theoretical/textual analysis with different forms of field work in their area. Traditionally offered “methods” courses do not necessarily serve their interests as theory/textual analysis and field research are usually considered mutually exclusive. In our quest for productive hybridity we ask the following questions in SPTSA’s Fourth Annual Workshop/Mini Conference: Methods?: How do we do research when we don’t speak the language of numbers, variables, and causalities? What is a methodology? What is the deed that breeds, supports, tweaks, or refutes theory? How do we combine field research and theory?

View the whole call for papers here: http://sptsa.tumblr.com/methods-cfp[sptsa.tumblr.com]

Email aparks@gradcenter.cuny.edu and/or satuk@gradcenter.cuny.edu if you any questions.