[Vwoolf] Of Potential Interest: Space Between Conference

[Erica Delsandro]

Hello All!

Passing along the CFP for the 21st Annual Conference of The Space Between
in case it is off interest.  Feel free to distribute to friends and
colleagues.



*CFP: “Staging the Space Between, 1914-1945”*

*21st Annual Conference of The Space Between Society: Literature and
Culture, 1914-1945*

*May 30-June 1, 2019*

*South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD*



*What is the role of staging in The Space Between? What does it look like,
where does it occur, and how does it function? *



Staging is an essential part of how we conceptualize history, literature,
culture, and art. The concept of staging naturally invokes performance and
invites us to examine this period’s performing arts: its theatre, dance,
and music, its art and artists, celebrities and entrepreneurs, its
practices and innovations. Staging expands the realm of performance to
include more diverse arts, media, and productions, such as fashion,
literature, performance art, and interior design. Technical innovations
extended modes of performance to radio, cinema, television, staging the
voice and the body in new and provocative ways to different and diverse
audiences. However, staging extends beyond the arts into other realms of
society. We can observe how staging operates within consumer culture, from
the department store to the popular periodical, and we can track the growth
of industries that relied on mass production. The term embraces other
registers of performance and enables us to consider the performativity of
language and gender, warfare and nationhood, politics and protest. Staging
shapes the way we remember the present and the past, both as individuals
and as a society.



We welcome paper proposals that engage with the various forms and meanings
of staging in the 1914-1945 period, across disciplines and media, on
research and/or pedagogy. Possible topics also include:



Staging production (economy, labor, Britain’s General Strike, the assembly
line)

Staging alternatives (cabaret, avant-garde, Dada)

Staging exhibitions (visual arts, art history, museums, collections, world
fairs, colonial expositions)

Staging the future (International Expo of Art and Technology in Modern
Life, the talkies)

Staging design (Ideal Home Show, Omega workshops, the runway)

Staging travel (travel writing, refugees, evacuees, soldiers)

Staging intersections (migration, transnationalism)

Staging a coup (fascism, communism, radical suffrage)

Staging disaster (the Holocaust, the influenza pandemic, war)

Staging the nation (representations, developing histories, colonialism,
politics)

Staging a comeback (spectacle, hoax, extravaganza)

Staging the academy (periodization, pedagogy)

Staging authorship (publication, periodicals, staged readings, celebrity
authors)

Behind the Scenes (makeup, lighting, costume, sound design)

Unusual staging (puppets, magic, circus)

Offstage and waiting in the wings



*Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to *
*nicole.flynn at sdstate.edu* <nicole.flynn at sdstate.edu>* by December 1, 2018*.
Submissions should include the author’s name, affiliation, and contact
information.






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