[Comedias] Fwd: Core Conference–Resituating the Comedia, Conference 1: Making Classics: Canonicity and Performance

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Alegoriía de la vanidad (supuesto retrato de la Calderona), courtesy of
Patrimonio Nacional de España.
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 <https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/aym4lw>
and its Diversifying the Classics
<https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/qqn4lw> 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/
<https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/6io4lw>

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
<https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/mbp4lw> or contact
clark at humnet.ucla.edu.
Full program schedule is available on our website:
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/resituating-comedia-1/
<https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/23p4lw>
*Speakers*
Margaret E. Boyle, Bowdoin College
Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University
Dave Dalton, University of Virginia
Carla Della Gatta, Florida State University
Esther Fernández, Rice University
Robin Kello, University of California, Los Angeles
Laura Muñoz, University of California, Los Angeles
Javier Patiño Loira, University of California, Los Angeles
Susan Paun de García, 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 <https://t.e2ma.net/click/ux7f3d/mnynsb/iwq4lw>

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