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The theme for the Clark/CESAR symposium will be "Visions of the Stage: Theater, Art, and Performance in France, 1600-1800." The CESAR Imagebank, created under the terms of a grant from the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available online a corpus of over 3500 images of Old Regime and Revolutionary French theater images. The vibrant interdisciplinary environment of the Clark's research and academic program, combined with the richness of the Institute's holdings in European visual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, make it an ideal host for this symposium. The conference organizers invite paper proposals from scholars of theater history, performance studies, art history, visual culture, and other disciplines that touch on the French stage in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We are particularly anxious to consider interdisciplinary proposals that explore the relationships between theater and visual culture. We are also keen to receive proposals which exploit the CESAR Imagebank, or are otherwise shaped by the use of CESAR's extensive online resources. We seek a balance between junior and senior scholars; theater specialists and scholars of visual traditions and cultures; and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century specialists.
THOSE WHO SUBMIT SUCCESSFUL PROPOSALS WILL HAVE THEIR TRAVEL AND LODGING EXPENSES PAID BY THE SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS.
The proposal deadline is 1 December 2007. Please send only individual paper proposals. Proposals should consist of a one-page, single-spaced paper synopsis, and a brief CV of not more than two pages. Proposals may be submitted in English or in French, but papers will be delivered at the symposium in English. The event's proceedings will be published on the CESAR web site, where they may appear in English or French. Previous CESAR conference proceedings can be consulted at http://www.cesar.org.uk/cesar2/conferences/index.php.
Please send questions or submissions via e-mail to BOTH of the conference organizers at the following addresses:
Dr Mark Ledbury
Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute
mledbury@clarkart.edu
Prof. Jeff Ravel
History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ravel@mit.edu
"Visions of the Stage" will be primarily sponsored by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and the MIT Office of the Dean for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.