Theatre

On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts 13 to 14 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://onwhoseterms.org Contact name: Dr. Deirdre Osborne This conference focuses upon local, national and transnational perspectives on Black British literature and the arts. It aims to celebrate and critically engage with the field. Organized by: Goldsmiths, University of London

The Idea of the New: Discovery, Expression and Reception 7 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ies_conferences Contact name: Lesley Moss This interdisciplinary conference will explore how we recognise and define ‘newness’. It will examine the developments and tensions which cause writers to break away from tradition and the moments of breakthrough which ensue. Organized by: University College London Department of English Language and Literature

The purpose of this conference is to explore different critical, cultural and historical encounters with Blake and to relate these to his own beliefs, ideas and values. Organized by: University of Manchester

If cinema was instrumental to nation building processes during the twentieth century, it has been equally central to their challenging, interrogation and sometimes reaffirmation in the twenty-first. This is especially true for Asian and Latin American cinemas, as present conditions variously described as ‘globalisation’ or ‘flexible accumulation’ have wrought tremendous social change, both rising standards of living and increasing inequality; allowing for reverse cultural flows and also exposing the mediascapes of countries in these two regions to unprecedented contact with ‘the West’; reducing their film production while also increasing availability of films made there. We invite papers addressing the relationship between these cinemas and (post)national identity, cinema and modernity/postmodernity, exilic cinema, diasporic and border filmmaking, the effects of digital technology on filmmaking and viewing in Asia and Latin America and, more generally, on the impact of globalisation on film industries in these two regions. Additional Information The following topics would be especially welcome: * Contemporary issues of audience reception * The role of co-productions * Cross-fertilisation of genre across Asian/Latin American Cinemas * The role of festivals in the construction and promotion of Asian and Latin American transnational cinemas * Diasporic cinema * Asian and Latin American directors and contemporary auteur theory * The Cultural construction of Stars and Fandom in Internet communities * Alternative versions of modernity in Asian and Latin American cinema

The aim of the festival is to make the contribution to the upbringing of tolerance in the society by the acquaintance with the diversity of world traditions. The main task of the festival is to demonstrate various theatre methods, to exchange experience in professional theatre education, methods of rehearsal process, performance making and production. Participants: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theatre critics, journalists, cultural managers. You are welcome to take part in TM08 as a presenter, a participant, an observer The working language is English

The 7th LATT Conference will be held March 26-29, 2008 at Virginia Tech. While abstracts on any aspect of Latin American Theatre may be submitted the general focus of the conference will be the question of the term itself "Latin American Theatre" and what that rubric has come to mean in cultural, political and geographical terms since the first LATT conference was held in 1982. the objective is to erase artificial regional and national frontiers, incorporate theatre people working in many regions and in different languages, and at the same time channel the dialogue toward some of the larger cultural issues that now engage Latin American and US Latino/a theatre scholars and practitioners, such as translation, adaptation, migration and the effects of globalization on cultural identities.

The objective of the third postgraduate symposium is to explore the current relevance of theory to the practice of translation. Organized by: University of East Anglia