The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the Ohio State University is pleased to announce four virtual speaker events for spring 2021. The following events are free and open to the public, featuring Iqbal Khan, Pamela Smith, Max Adams, and Luke J. Pecoraro.
The STR New Researchers' Network invites papers for a special edition of Theatre Notebook focused on the theme of "absence." Lockdowns imposed to stop the spread of COVID19 are forcing scholars to engage with absence in all of its various forms. Performances have been cancelled, archives are closed, families are separated and a ‘new normal’ has emerged. In these strange times, as scholars are forced to reconsider both the impact and value of absences as creative stimuli, the NRN seek papers that discuss, evaluate, and engage with absences, or gaps, in Theatre and Performance research. Deadline: 8 March, 2021.
Available today is the MRDS fall 2020 newsletter, our biannual publications for members kindly put together by Dr. Gerard P. NeCastro. You can read this and our previous issues online.