From comedias at comedias.org Fri Nov 6 15:38:54 2020 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Comedias] Fwd: AHCT CFP & Nominations In-Reply-To: <38023D41-07DB-43EA-A7A3-EDEFA34A0B2F@cortland.edu> References: <38023D41-07DB-43EA-A7A3-EDEFA34A0B2F@cortland.edu> Message-ID: *Call for Papers: 2021 AHCT /Almagro Symposium, **July 5-11, 2021 * *Refundir la comedia desde los retos del siglo XXI* *Recasting the Comedia: Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century* *Submission deadline: December 15th, 2020* *Conference page: **http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/ahct-almagro-2021/* *The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater* invites submissions for a virtual symposium taking place in tandem with The Almagro International Classical Theatre Festival in July 2021. For complete details and submission information follow the link above or see the attached call for papers. *Also, a reminder: Last call for board nominations.* Please use the form below to send us the name and email of your nominee along with a sentence or two explaining why you think this individual would be an ideal candidate to do the work of the Association. Self-nominations are welcome. *Nominations will close November 9, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. EST.* https://forms.gle/dED1y6BLPtLdP6WZ8 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: New CFP(AHCTALMAGRO 2021).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 224809 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: New CFP(AHCT_ALMAGRO 2021)_espa?ol.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 250163 bytes Desc: not available URL: From comedias at comedias.org Wed Nov 11 10:35:03 2020 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:35:03 -0500 Subject: [Comedias] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_Core_Conference=E2=80=93Resituating_?= =?utf-8?q?the_Comedia=2C_Conference_1=3A_Making_Classics=3A_Canoni?= =?utf-8?q?city_and_Performance?= In-Reply-To: <5e76a74d-cf85-8adb-8bc1-8122eafb2be3@humnet.ucla.edu> References: <5e76a74d-cf85-8adb-8bc1-8122eafb2be3@humnet.ucla.edu> Message-ID: [image: UCLA College Humanities Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies] Alegori?a de la vanidad (supuesto retrato de la Calderona), courtesy of Patrimonio Nacional de Espa?a. Core Conference 2020?21 Resituating the *Comedia*, Conference 1: Making Classics: Canonicity and Performance *Thursday, November 12 and Friday, November 13, 2020 10:00 a.m.?3:00 p.m. P.S.T. Zoom Webinar Organized by Barbara Fuchs (University of California, Los Angeles)* Studies of the 17th-century Hispanic *comedia* have been reinvigorated by a strong turn to both early modern and contemporary performance. Scholars have also explored the transnational reception of the corpus, its translation, and its adaptation. This focus on performance and transnational reception has changed our understanding of the corpus, as of individual plays within it, by foregrounding questions of ideology and canonicity, situatedness and transformation. Building on the efforts of UCLA?s Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics initiative, the Center & Clark?s year-long core program ?Resituating the *Comedia*? explores new contexts for Hispanic classical theater. In addition to presenting new research, the program will provide an opportunity for practitioners to encounter new plays and for working translators to share methodologies and interact with practitioners. Two conferences, along with two roundtables with local scholars and practitioners, will highlight and examine the new *comedia* studies, with its emphasis on performance and transnational reception. The first conference, ?Making Classics: Canonicity and Performance,? will address these questions: How does *comedia* fit within current conceptualizations of the theater canon and its classics? How does performance transform the canon, whether by highlighting new works or re-envisioning them? This conference is held in conjunction with LA Escena 2020, a virtual festival of Hispanic classical theater presented online from November 12-16, 2020. For more information about the festival and to RSVP for free performances, visit: www.anoisewithin.org/la-escena-2020/ For information about the Clark Library?s collections in both French and English reworkings of the comedia, and in the history of European drama and performance, please visit https://clarklibrary.ucla.edu or contact clark at humnet.ucla.edu. Full program schedule is available on our website: http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/resituating-comedia-1/ *Speakers* Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University Dave Dalton, University of Virginia Carla Della Gatta, Florida State University Esther Fern?ndez, Rice University Robin Kello, University of California, Los Angeles Laura Mu?oz, University of California, Los Angeles Javier Pati?o Loira, University of California, Los Angeles Susan Paun de Garc?a, Denison College Aina Soley Mateu, University of California, Los Angeles Duncan Wheeler, University of Leeds *This conference is free of charge, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members will receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following link to register directly with Zoom:* Register Online Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies 302 Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095-1404 Phone: 310-206-8552 | Fax: 310-206-8577 E-mail: c1718cs at humnet.ucla.edu | Website: www.1718.ucla.edu *Share this email:* [image: Email] [image: Twitter] [image: Facebook] [image: LinkedIn] *Manage* your preferences | *Opt out* using *TrueRemove?* Got this as a forward? *Sign up* to receive our future emails. View this email *online* . 302 Royce Hall UCLA Los Angeles, CA 90095-1404 | US <#m_-3850782828417445900_> This email was sent to fuchsbar at humnet.ucla.edu <#m_-3850782828417445900_>. [image: powered by emma] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From comedias at comedias.org Wed Nov 11 10:35:55 2020 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:35:55 -0500 Subject: [Comedias] Fwd: LA Escena: Hispanic Classical Theatre Festival In-Reply-To: <633804ba-ae2e-dd92-a609-d403554f2262@humnet.ucla.edu> References: <633804ba-ae2e-dd92-a609-d403554f2262@humnet.ucla.edu> Message-ID: Diversifying the Classics is delighted to announce the second edition of Los Angeles? Festival of Hispanic classical theater, LA Escena 2020 , now in a largely virtual mode. Presenting Hispanic classics, from inventive productions of the original texts to translations and adaptations inspired by the Golden Age. This special-edition virtual festival includes performances in English and Spanish from artists from Mexico City, Madrid and M?laga in Spain, as well as New York and Los Angeles, all exploring new directions in theater practice across a number of platforms. We hope you will join the LA Escena 2020 program online November 12?16 for a unique and unforgettable experience. You can RSVP today for FREE for any and all LA Escena events. Learn More About LA Escena 2020 When you RSVP, we will send you a link for each show at least two hours prior to the performance. If you need a last-minute link or technical support, please contact us here. Finjamos que soy feliz 12 NOV ? 5PM PST Tania and Oscar, the main characters on this voyage, must adapt their acting style to explore this complex text, which takes the powerful figure of Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz as its starting point as it considers feminism, inclusivity, and the impediments to free thought, which the Mexican nun defended so passionately in her own time. LEARN MORE Don Carlos: Prince of Asturias 13 NOV ? 4PM PST Don Carlos was heir to the Spanish throne after the most powerful king in Spain, King Phillip II, but Carlos? personality anomalies and ostensible sexual deviances deemed him unfit to rule in a patriotic and puritan Spaniard?s eye. Will Don Carlos fight for what is right, or succumb to his own eradication? LEARN MORE Golden Tongues I: The King of Maricopa County 13 NOV ? 6PM PST In present day Arizona, near the border with Mexico, the politically conservative sheriff is up for reelection. His daughter from a previous marriage and his new wife are brought together by destiny: a car collision far out in the Arizona desert, in the middle of a thunderstorm. Their forbidden love, discovered by the vengeful sheriff, sets in motion a tragic series of events that shows the horrific consequences of power run mad. LEARN MORE Quijotes y Sanchos 14 NOV ? 10AM PST 15 NOV ? 10AM PST Quijotes y Sanchos is a self-guided tour of Los Angeles. The experience begins at home, as participants receive their instructions. We invite you to see your own space through the eyes of Don Quijote and Sancho, to relive the events of the novel, and to cross the city as though it were the Spain of 1604? or the Tokyo of the late 20th century. Quijotes y Sanchos turns your place and your city into the backdrop, you into the protagonist, and the rest of the world into the ideal cast for your journey. LEARN MORE Quij?teres Puppet Show *FAMILY FRIENDLY* 14 NOV ? 1PM PST Available on Demand ?Quij?teres! is a bilingual puppet theatre adaptation of Cervantes? classic novel that aims to introduce young audiences, regardless of their familiarity with Spanish or the Golden Age, to the comic adventures and themes of Don Quijote. Featuring ?muppet-style? puppets on a unique, multi-functional traveling puppet stage, the show takes advantage of its imaginative puppet setting to emphasize the novel?s intensely comical depictions of the ridiculous. LEARN MORE Y es mayor dolor la ausencia que la muerte 14 NOV ? 3PM PST Grumelot presents a virtual experience that reflects on what it means to be free while in seclusion, and to achieve our most intimate connections at a distance. This piece, designed for digital platforms, starts from the texts of Sor Juana, that ?Tenth Muse? of Mexico, who sought out seclusion for the sake of intellectual freedom, and places them in conversation with 12 female artists as they experience their own isolation during the Great Lockdown of 2020 in Spain. LEARN MORE Golden Tongues II: The Woodingle Puppet Show 14 NOV ? 6PM PST Julie Taiwo Oni?s riff on Miguel de Cervantes? Retablo de las maravillas (The Marvelous Puppet Show) reimagines the anxieties around social and cultural belonging in the space of a rapidly gentrifying South LA. In The Woodingle Puppet Show with Host Mr. C, as Constructed by Mr. Asinine with Calculations and Articulations of the Genius Sort, Oni explores questions of Blackness, and the hoops people are willing to jump through to prove that they are ?black enough.? LEARN MORE Canciones de Olmedo 15 NOV ? 3PM PST Canciones de Olmedo is a musical adaptation into concert form of Lope de Vega?s famous play The Knight of Olmedo. Composed in the 1620's and widely regarded as Lope's masterpiece, the play was actually inspired by a popular song, which describes the death of a knight: ?They killed him by night, the pride of Medina, the flower of Olmedo.? We offer you Canciones de Olmedo as a reminiscence of the flavor of Lope?s poetry?a melancholy, nostalgic song to love and the end of love. LEARN MORE Golden Tongues III: What We Pay For Likes 15 NOV ? 6PM PST Inda Craig-Galv?n?s What We Pay For Likes transports the squabbling, reputation-obsessed aristocrats of Madrid from Juan Ruiz de Alarc?n?s Los empe?os de un enga?o (translated by Diversifying the Classics as What We Owe Our Lies) to a Calabasas populated by influencers whose lives revolve around their brands and social media views. When a handsome stranger comes to town, their relationships IRL turn out to be much more complicated than their polished profiles suggest. LEARN MORE The Courage to Right a Woman?s Wrongs 16 NOV ? 4:30PM PST One of the Spanish Golden Age?s most accomplished female playwrights, Ana Caro, presents a witty critique of society through the story of Leonor, a woman who sets out to find her one-time lover (Don Juan, naturally) and bring him to justice. The Courage to Right a Woman?s Wrongs is a comedy of wild intrigue and lively ingenuity in which Leonor crosses geographical boundaries and defies social expectations of gender in order to bring her fickle lover to justice and restore her lost honor. LEARN MORE Special thanks to our sponsors: UCLA Arts Initiative UCLA Humanities Division UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese UCLA Department of English Follow Us [image: Facebook] ? [image: Twitter] ? [image: LinkedIn] ? [image: YouTube] ? Photos courtesy of LA Escena partners. A Noise Within | 3352 E Foothill Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 Unsubscribe j.munozproulx at gmail.com Update Profile | About our service provider Sent by boxoffice at anoisewithin.org powered by [image: Trusted Email from Constant Contact - Try it FREE today.] Try email marketing for free today! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From comedias at comedias.org Mon Nov 23 14:19:27 2020 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:19:27 +0000 Subject: [Comedias] CFP for AHCT Virtual Symposium + Comedia Performance Message-ID: Dear AHCT members: We would like to remind you that the 2021 AHCT Symposium will be held virtually in July 2021. The CFP and all other pertinent information can be found on the website here: http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/ahct-almagro-2021/ (Spanish version here: http://www.wordpress.comedias.org/ahct-almagro-2021-2/) We will also have a special issue of Comedia Performance dedicated to the same topics: Comedia Performance: Journal of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater CFP Special Issue: Recasting the Comedia: Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century (Selected papers from the 2021 Association for Hispanic Classical Theater/Almagro Festival Virtual Conference) Guest Editors: Erin Alice Cowling (MacEwan University) cowlinge at macewan.ca Esther Fern?ndez (Rice University) ef14 at rice.edu Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas (Ohio Wesleyan University) gynietoc at owu.edu Timeline: Full Drafts: September 1, 2021 Editors will return revisions by October 1, 2021 Revised papers submitted to CP online system: October 30, 2021 Expected Publication: April 2022 Special Topics: Theater Practicalities: Innovation, translation and pedagogical collaborations: How can performance, experiential learning and outreach contribute to students? better understanding of the Spanish comedia? How can digital media be used to enhance learning outcomes? How can practitioners and scholars collaborate to make the study of the comedia more accessible and effective to students? What are the main challenges and limits of translating for the English-speaking stage? What decisions are practitioners making when translating their own Spanish adaptations into English and how these are transforming their productions? The Intersectional Comedia: Questions of Race, Gender, Class on the Stage: How are non-centered groups represented in the comedia? Where do these categories converge and diverge? How can we tackle these questions about the comedia through the lens of the twenty-first century? How does the comedia?s social context influence our perception of gender/race/class when we read or view it? What non-canonical works should we be incorporating in our classrooms and our investigations that might pose answers to these questions?or more questions, themselves? In terms of performance, is it still possible to have all male/all white companies? What concerns should companies take into consideration when they perform characters of the Other? Is it still valid to employ terms such as the ?Other? or the ?Subaltern? or do we need to find new theoretical approaches to discuss current performance practices and/or readings of the comedia as it relates to diverse characters? The Comedia under Siege: Confinements, Digitalization, and the Future: This working group intends to examine a variety of proposals that have been carried out in Spain and Latin America in order to keep the comedia afloat during a rigorous confinement and to evaluate the contributions of these creations. It is important to discuss what this implies for an inherently live medium such as the theatre. How do we process this virtual ?fifth wall? applied to the performance of classical texts? How companies have coped with more than three months of closure and what are the implications of performing with a reduced capacity? Has COVID-19 made us rethink an alternative form of theatre? Please contact myself, Glenda Nieto-Cuebas or Esther Fern?ndez with any question. Best, Erin -- Dr. Erin Alice Cowling, PhD Assistant Professor/Coordinator, Spanish Department of Humanities MacEwan University 7-352F, 10700-104 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5J 4S2 cowlinge at macewan.ca T: 780-497-5844 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From comedias at comedias.org Mon Nov 23 14:47:18 2020 From: comedias at comedias.org (AHCT Listserv) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:47:18 +0000 Subject: [Comedias] Romance Quarterly Special Issue Message-ID: Dear AHCT members: Romance Quarterly will be guest edited by 3 of our officers and we very much hope you will consider sending us abstracts for this excited Special Issue ?The Comedia Under Siege?. Please see the information below and contact one of the editors (Erin Cowling, Esther Fern?ndez, Glenda Nieto-Cuebas) with any questions you might have: [cid:image001.png at 01D6C19F.26403030] CFP Special Issue: Romance Quarterly / The Comedia Under Siege Erin Alice Cowling (MacEwan University) cowlinge at macewan.ca Esther Fern?ndez (Rice University) ef14 at rice.edu Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas (Ohio Wesleyan University) gynietoc at owu.edu Expected Publication: April 2022 Timeline: Abstracts: February 15, 2021 Full Drafts: July 1, 2021 Editors will return revisions by August 15, 2021 Revised papers: October 1, 2021 Special Issue Topic: The Comedia Under Siege This past year, in addition to the crisis of the Humanities that was already besieging us, we have experienced a new challenge that has impacted our lives in many ways. As educators, we had to reorganize our teaching into a remote format. Likewise, many cultural and social initiatives have had to devise new ways of resuming their activity virtually. Within the realm of theatre, companies have had to devise creative proposals for virtual platforms. This special issue intends to examine a variety of proposals that have been carried out in the Spanish-speaking world in order to keep the comedia afloat during a rigorous confinement, and to evaluate the contributions of these innovative and spontaneous creations. It is important to discuss what this implies for an inherently live medium such as the theatre, where the magic is created through the energy between actors and spectators in situ. How do we process this virtual ?fifth wall? applied to the performance of classical texts? Furthermore, how do you establish a virtual connection between actors and spectators? On a more pragmatic, and broader level, we also wonder how theaters have coped with more than three months of closure. What are the implications of a company performing with a reduced audience capacity? Has COVID-19 made us rethink an alternative form of theatre? Instructions for Authors: We are looking for shorter papers (20 pages max.) that explore how COVID has affected the performance of the Comedia. Papers must follow the style guidelines as outlined by Romance Quarterly. Best, Erin -- Dr. Erin Alice Cowling, PhD Assistant Professor/Coordinator, Spanish Department of Humanities MacEwan University 7-352F, 10700-104 Avenue Edmonton, AB, Canada T5J 4S2 cowlinge at macewan.ca T: 780-497-5844 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 39976 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: