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This CFP is from the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List:
& nbsp; &n bsp; &nb sp; http://cfp.english.upenn.edu" title="http://cfp.english.upenn.edu" target="_blank"http://cfp.english.upenn.edu --Yukihiko YOSHIDA CALL FOR PAPERS Dance Matters The School of Media, Communication and Culture at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India is pleased to announce a two-day symposium titled Dance Matters on August 10-11 2006. This symposium proposes to bring to the forefront innovative approaches that have placed dance at the center of scholarly research on body, ritual, culture, identity, history, gender, and power. Selected papers from the symposium will be published in a book. Dance is a vital aspect of expressive culture. It embodies the cultural experience and expression of a particular collective identity. Notions of culture, identity, and history are continually re-invented through dance. Indian dance forms have emerged as an important critical lens to analyze narratives of nationalism, transnationalism, women｡ｦs bodies, and postcolonial politics. Scholarly research on Indian dance forms has spanned disciplines such as Anthropology, Culture studies, Performance studies, Art history, Postcolonial and Feminist studies. The recent formulation of Dance studies as an academic discipline is a result of the increased circulation of various dance forms in the international scholarly and art-culture circuits. This conference will bring scholars and practitioners together on the same platform to evaluate the status of Indian dance forms (ranging from classical, to folk, to Bollywood) in shaping current discourses on culture, tradition, history, identity, human rights and more. The topics to be covered include Ч Tradition and Globalization
Ч Religion and Culture
Ч Identity and Hybridity
Ч Gender and Sexuality
Ч Media and Popular Culture
Ч Ethnography and Audience
Ч Dance and Social justice
Ч Ritual and Aesthetics Please send a brief abstract (350 words) including a title, name, address, email, phone number and institutional affiliation by March 30, 2006. Submit abstracts and direct queries to: Dr. Nilanjana Gupta, Director
School of Media Communication and Culture Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Email: nilaguptaju@yahoo.com Dr. Pallabi Chakravorty
Department of Music and Dance
Swarthmore College, Pa 19096, U.S.A
Email: pchakra1@swarthmore.edu Jadavpur University will provide local hospitality for the speakers at the University guesthouse.
Sponsored by UGC University with Potential for Excellence Programme: Studies in Cultural Processes.
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