Fwd: Dance History Writing Circles
Lena Leson
From: Sophie Benn <sophie...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 9:23 AM
Subject: Dance History Writing Circles
To: DSA Dance and Music Working Group <dsa-dance-and-mu...@googlegroups.com>
Please see the following invitation to participate in a Writing Circle as organized by Karen Eliot, Lynn Brooks, and Olivia Sabee. We hope you will consider joining us.
Title: Dance History Writing Circles
Mission Statement: While scholars have long experienced the solitude of researching and writing alone, the past two years have exacerbated that isolation for many of us. The intention of the proposed Dance History Writing Circles is to diminish that sense of isolation and motivate those involved through stimulating exchanges with other active scholars. Toward these ends, the Long Nineteenth-Century Working Group of the Dance Studies Association proposes formation of small writing circles (4-5 people in each) that will meet every two, three, or four weeks (as the groups decide) for an initial 4 sessions, to share participants' themes, progress, and goals in current large-scale dance-history writing projects (substantial academic articles, books, dissertations, etc.).
While this idea arose from the Long Nineteenth-Century group, we are open to participation of scholars researching other time periods. The intention is not necessarily to share or require reading of one another's work (although individuals in the group might seek and agree to such exchanges), but rather to motivate and brainstorm with one another, during the meetings, about current research/writing projects with a dance-history focus. We anticipate that the common language of the groups will be English, but if some circles can be formed with other common languages, they are free to make a different choice.
If interested in participating, please submit to Karen Eliot <keli...@gmail.com> a brief statement in English including the following information:
- your name,
- a 200-word (or so) description of your project (title plus brief abstract and the nature of the anticipated product -- article, book, dissertation...),
- your current status (i.e., Ph.D. student, assistant professor, independent scholar, retired academic...),
- your location (i.e., San Francisco, CA; Vienna, Austria; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Melbourne, Australia...),
- any other important information or concern for organizers to bear in mind regarding your participation.
Deadline: Wednesday 23 March 2022.
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