Drama Education Conferences and Seminars

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• IDEA 5th World Congress in Ottawa, Canada 2004

The next world congress will take place 2-8 July, 2004 in Ottawa, Canada. Hosted by Theatre Canada, this congress will follow a theme of

"The Universal Mosaic of Drama: walking diverse pathways together; finding new directions".

For further information about this event, please contact the organizing committee at the following address.
Wayne Fairhead wfairhead@oise.utoronto.ca

Can I suggest that you look at what was on offer in Norway http://www.idea2001.no/ as it will give you an idea of what to expect in Ottawa.  Browse through the site... there is even the full handbook with all the sessions offered ...  and if that doesn't sound like "fun", then you can take me out on the town in Ottawa and we'll see what we can do to find some "fun" for you!!  KF

• 		Drama Australia Conference Hosted by ACTDA Canberra, ACT 1-3 October 2004

Conference Details

From 6.00pm Thursday 30 September - 4.00pm Sunday 3 October 2004

The School of Music
National Institute of the Arts
Australian National University

(Note: this is a public holiday weekend in the ACT. Floriade is also in full swing)

• *** Everyday Transformations ***
  The Twenty-First Century Quotidian
  Annual conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia,
  Murdoch University, 9-11 December 2004

  
  Call for Papers
  New technologies, increasing work pressures, changing gender roles and family structures, increasing flows of refugees and asylum seekers, concerns about security, environmental risks, the escalating speed and complexity of social transactions - everyday life is today a terrain of rapid and unsettling change. Yet it retains associations also with pattern, order, routine - the familiarity of a favourite soap opera or talk show, the ordinary pleasures and irritations of shopping, cooking, negotiating traffic, managing domestic life.
  
  How should cultural studies address questions of everyday life in the twenty-first century? The field can claim a rich tradition of work in the area, from ethnographies of street subcultures and shopping centres to writing on television and popular magazines. But everyday life has been transformed in significant ways since the time of many of the founding contributions. What remains relevant today in the study of everyday life? To what extent do we need new concepts and categories?
  
  Transformations have also occurred in cultural studies' motivations for engaging with everyday life. The everyday is a major point of intersection for many of its intellectual tributaries, including British cultural studies, feminism, semiotics, European surrealism, situationism, psychoanalysis and ethnomethodology. Yet the context for all of these has been affected by major shifts in the location of cultural studies, the nature and priorities of higher education, by the increasing market orientation of mainstream institutions and by conservative attempts to lay claim to the 'ordinary' and 'mainstream'. What do we seek now in engaging with the everyday? What understanding of this engagement is most appropriate for the times?
  
  Abstracts of no more than 250 words for single papers, or suggestions for panel sessions, should be sent to:
  
  Mark Gibson - mgibson@central.murdoch.edu.au
  or : School of Media, Communication and Culture
  Murdoch University
  South St, Murdoch
  WA 6150
  
  Panel proposals are particularly welcome.
  Refereed Publication Option: As an innovation on past CSAA conferences, 'Everyday Transformations' will also be offering the option of refereed publication in electronic conference proceedings. To be considered for this stream, full papers must be received by 27 August 2004.
  Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 July 2004

   

• ASSITEJ International World Conference “Number One of Three”
  "Theatre arts and the educational system: in harmony or in contradiction?“
  Saturday, September 27 Horn, Vereinshaus
  
  There would be no theatre for children and teenagers without the institutional framework provided by the school system and other educational institutions. Theatre for a young audience is performed at school, provides an incentive for school classes to go to the theatre, and is often part of the curriculum or of extra-curricular activities. Often the complementarity of the two spheres benefits both sides, though their cooperation may also highlight differences and encourage confrontation. But there can be no doubt that the combination of school and theatre offers a host of possibilities of deepening young people’s understanding of life and enhancing their appreciation of culture(s).

  The conference in Horn will focus on these interesting perspectives. The programme includes the presentation of the three “Best Practice Models” and two “Round Table Talks” with international theatre experts.

  The conference is the first of three events:

  2003: Horn / Austria, 
  2004: Cape Town / South Africa, 
  2005: Montreal / Canada

• PSi: Performance Studies international

June 15-18, 2004 PSi 10
Singapore
proposals due Sept 30
c/o Lee Weng Choy
The Substation
45 Armenian Street
Singapore 179936
tel: (65) 6337 7535 fax: (65) 6337 2729
papers@singaporepsi.org

Keynote.org.uk - Drama Courses

• Keynote Educational offers high quality courses for teachers and revision days for students throughout the UK. As a wholly independent organisation we offer an entirely objective and impartial provision.