From comedias at comedias.org Fri May 12 10:06:07 2017 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:06:07 -0400 Subject: [Comedias] please circulate to members Message-ID: Dear AHCT Members, The Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater has called a snap election for _*Vice President for the Annual Conference*_. We are actively soliciting candidates for the position, and have abbreviated the normal nominating period from 3 weeks to 2 in the hope that we can complete the process speedily. We encourage your active participation now. Nominations must be received by May 25, 2017. Position description below. To nominate a candidate, or to self-nominate, please go to the form using this link: https://goo.gl/forms/ebd9L83uraXbNH1w1 After the nomination period is over, we will circulate a ballot for voting for both President-Elect (nomination period closed) and this position. Thank you, Harley Erdman (Chair of Nominating Committee) The VPAC will coordinate and oversee at least three subcommittees, communicating closely with the subcommittee chairs, whose responsibilities are described below. The VPAC is the legal agent who signs all contracts. The VPAC is the central communicator, sending out calls for papers, pertinent reminders, and post-symposium surveys. All subcommittee chairs communicate closely with the VPAC, and the VPAC and VPMR (Membership and Registration) are in close contact with each other and with the President. Logistics subcommittee: *Assist VPAC in reviewing contracts for hotel rooms, tech, transportation, banquet *Make banquet arrangements *Ensure follow-through, manage crises, and troubleshoot on site Symposium subcommittee: *Submissions -Review submissions from faculty & send acceptance/rejection letters -Review submissions from students & send acceptance/rejection letters & select Hesse Travel Award winner *Program -Schedule sessions -Design and print program Mentoring and Hospitality subcommittee: *Mentoring graduate students (lunch) and liaisons (training/ check list, etc.) *On-site hospitality -Coordinating and managing registration table volunteers -Coordinating and managing Friday night reception (purchase, set-up, clean-up) -- Harley Erdman Professor of Theater University of Massachusetts at Amherst -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From comedias at comedias.org Wed May 24 05:29:59 2017 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:29:59 +0000 Subject: [Comedias] Call for Paper Announcement Message-ID: Hi, Prof. Susan Garcia I am writing to see if you can help me to circulate this announcement below through COMEDIA mailing list. Thank you. Carmela Mattza -------------------------------------- CFP: 2018 RSA New Orleans Rethinking Baroque Women: 40 years after The Invisible Mistress Chair: Frederick de Armas Since its publication in 1976, Frederick A. de Armas's The Invisible Mistress has been the starting point for many current studies in Early Modern Iberian Prose and Theater. This panel seeks to acknowledge in particular his contribution in the development of women's studies in the Spanish Golden Age by discussing the interplay of arts, emotions, gender and mythology in the canonical or non-canonical analyses of Early Modern Iberian plays. Thus we are looking for presenters that engage with the theme/title of this panel by suggesting or showing new approaches or future directions for our understanding of 1. Public Faces and Gender Roles 2. Science of the unknown, magic and the art of Seduction 3. Language of emotions and feelings (love, empathy, anger, hate, forgiveness, sympathy, revenge, shame, etc.) 4. Myth and use of ekphrasis Please submit a 150-word abstract to Carmela Mattza, Louisiana State University, cmattza at lsu.edu by May 26, 2017. http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1595540/274853/Rethinking-Baroque-Women-40-years-after-The-Invisible-Mistress -- Carmela Mattza Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Louisiana State University cmattza at lsu.edu | lsu.edu | Sent from Gmail Mobile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From comedias at comedias.org Wed May 24 09:11:47 2017 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 15:11:47 +0200 Subject: [Comedias] Fwd: Call for Paper Announcement In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Carmela Mattza" Date: May 24, 2017 11:30 AM Subject: Call for Paper Announcement To: "Susan Garcia" , "comedias at comedias.org" < comedias at comedias.org> Cc: "Carmela Mattza" Hi, Prof. Susan Garcia I am writing to see if you can help me to circulate this announcement below through COMEDIA mailing list. Thank you. Carmela Mattza -------------------------------------- CFP: 2018 RSA New Orleans Rethinking Baroque Women: 40 years after The Invisible Mistress Chair: Frederick de Armas Since its publication in 1976, Frederick A. de Armas's The Invisible Mistress has been the starting point for many current studies in Early Modern Iberian Prose and Theater. This panel seeks to acknowledge in particular his contribution in the development of women's studies in the Spanish Golden Age by discussing the interplay of arts, emotions, gender and mythology in the canonical or non-canonical analyses of Early Modern Iberian plays. Thus we are looking for presenters that engage with the theme/title of this panel by suggesting or showing new approaches or future directions for our understanding of 1. Public Faces and Gender Roles 2. Science of the unknown, magic and the art of Seduction 3. Language of emotions and feelings (love, empathy, anger, hate, forgiveness, sympathy, revenge, shame, etc.) 4. Myth and use of ekphrasis Please submit a 150-word abstract to Carmela Mattza, Louisiana State University, cmattza at lsu.edu by May 26, 2017. http://rsa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1595540/274853/Rethinking-Baroque-Women-40- years-after-The-Invisible-Mistress -- Carmela Mattza Assistant Professor of Spanish Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Louisiana State University cmattza at lsu.edu | lsu.edu | Sent from Gmail Mobile -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: