Theatre and Ghosts Conference, University of York (UK) - Call for Papers

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television University of York (UK) is pleased to announce a call for papers for an international conference on Theatre and Ghosts 1-3 July 2011 Keynotes: Professor Marvin Carlson, CUNY Professor Barbara Hodgdon, University of Michigan Professor Peter Holland, Notre Dame Professor Joseph Roach, Yale The conference spans the Renaissance to the present day. We are expecting rich cross-dialogue between cultures and periods. Papers are called on, but not limited to, the following: ghosts and cultural memory haunted roles, ghosting, and surrogation haunted actors, haunted plays performing ghosts Japanese Noh ghosts and war guilt and revenge the undead and the disappeared ghosts, stage mechanics and technology Chinese opera haunted theatre buildings, haunted spaces ghosts and trauma ghosts and spectatorship, superstition, the operations of fear Conference Director: Professor Mary Luckhurst Deadline for 300-word abstracts, for 20 minute papers or performance presentations: 5 January 2010 We will respond to applications by the end of January 2011. Please send enquiries and abstracts to the conference administrator, Virginia Spillett on vhs500@york.ac.uk