[Comedias] ASTR 2017 Call for proposals

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When the Extraordinary is Also Ordinary: Spanish Golden Age Theater’s
Heroic Monsters

Harley Erdman, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Susan Paun de García, Denison University

This Working Session seeks proposals for people wanting to participate in
this Working Session for ASTR’s 2017 conference, whose theme is
“Extra/Ordinary Bodies.” The theater of Golden Age Spain and colonial Latin
American speaks directly to the conference theme. Its repertory overflows
with such bodies. A spate of recent scholarship, including David Castillo’s
influential *BAROQUE HORRORS *(University of Michigan Press, 2011),
interrogates monsters and monstrosity on 17th-century Spanish stage.
Appropriately, Castillo’s most recent book, *MEDIALOGIES: READING REALITY
IN THE AGE OF INFLATIONARY MEDIA* (co-authored with William Egginton;
Bloomsbury, 2016) applies some of the same critical framework to our
current national circumstances. This Working Session seeks to make similar
connections. Why was the Spanish empire so fascinated with these
extra/ordinary bodies? Why are these bodies so frequently heroic on stage?
What might they say in performance today? What is the connection between an
empire in crisis and transition and the urge to make a spectacle of
non-normative bodies on stage? Our Working Session invites case studies of
specific texts and productions to explore these provocative and timely
questions.

The Working Session invites 250 word abstracts for focused position papers
that stake a claim in relation to the above questions. Once accepted into
the session, participants will be asked to share a 2000-word paper, due six
weeks before the conference. The Working Session in Atlanta will consist of
a guided discussion of these papers. Abstracts are welcome from both
scholars and practitioners.

For any specific questions, please contact the working group convenor at
harley at theater.umass.edu.

Please note that all submissions must be received formally through the ASTR
website here <http://www.astr.org/?page=17_WSSubmissions>. The form will
allow you to indicate second and third choice working groups if you wish;
if you do so, note that there is a space for you to indicate how your work
will fit into those groups. The deadline for receipt of working group
proposals is *1 June 2017* and we anticipate that participants will be
notified of their acceptance no later than 30 June. Please contact the
conference organizers at astr2017 at astr.org if you have any questions about
the process.
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