CFP: Graduate Student Conference at Princeton This October (Third Notice)

[Geoff Cebula]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Graduate Student Conference “Literary Theatricality:
Theatrical Text” at Princeton University’s Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures

Conference dates: October 26 & 27, 2012

Keynote: John MacKay (Yale University)

Convergence between text and dramatic performance can be found in the
narrative strategies of some of the most foundational texts of Russian
literature. For instance, in Eugene Onegin Pushkin’s narrator shifts
between masks, using the disguises to create a plurality of voices
throughout the structure of his lyrical stanzas.  In a similar vein,
Gogol’s narrators would rely on complex verbal textures borrowed from
vocalized turns of speech (skaz). In the 20th century, Silver Age and
modernist artists both theorized and explored a synthesis between genres,
particularly in the case of dancers who drew on literature as both textual
and inspirational sources for their formulations of movement codes. Early
Russian film and film theory freely borrowed from theatrical conventions,
while Eisenstein and Tynianov regarded film as structurally analogous to a
written text.

This interdisciplinary conference will encourage submissions that explore
this crucial trend to consider literature as something performative and to
read performance in literary terms. Soliciting papers from our graduate
student colleagues at other universities, we hope to tease out one of the
most fundamental, but largely overlooked, structural and thematic
capabilities of the text in Russian literature.

We hope to bring perspectives together from other fields of language and
literature, anthropology, history, gender studies, performing and visual
arts, and film and media studies.

Travel reimbursement and 2 nights of lodging will be provided.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Abstracts are due June 1, 2012.  Abstracts should be between 300 and 500
words.  Include paper title, and also a one-page CV.

Please submit abstracts to: princeton.slavic.conference at gmail.com. Please
address questions to Susanna Weygandt (weygandt at princeton.edu).

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