Fw: [Corporeality] Call for Papers for SDHS Conference Dance and the City

[Katherine Mezur]

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Subject: [Corporeality] Call for Papers for SDHS Conference Dance and the City



Call for Proposals:  SDHS 2012 Conference
SDHS Annual Conference 2012
Dance and the Social City
15-17 June, 2012
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Society of Dance History Scholars invites proposals for individual
papers, panels, roundtables, movement workshops and lecture demonstrations
for its thirty-fifth annual conference, hosted by the University of the Arts
in Philadelphia, PA. SDHS invites scholars and artists from across the globe
to join us as we consider histories and narratives of dance and the social
city. SDHS defines history in  the broadest possible way and includes in its
conference programs a wide range of research methodologies, interpretive
approaches, and analytic techniques. The program committee encourages
interdisciplinary perspectives, and scholars from disciplines related to
dance are strongly invited to submit their work. SDHS also encourages
submissions from graduate students and independent scholars.

Meeting in the City of Brotherly Love affords us the opportunity to consider
the rich traditions of  social dance and performance inspired by one of the
nation’s largest metropolitan areas. We invite individual papers or entire
panels that engage with dance practices in Philadelphia. We invite
presentations that rethink the multiple meanings of social and city: urban
identities, dance as a site  of social exchange, historical and contemporary
iterations of dance and city planning. Some questions that might be
considered include:
•    Is dance an inherently cosmopolitan enterprise? In other words, when
we tell histories of dance, are we also telling histories of cities?
•    Is dancing essential in a well-ordered society? How does dance
reinforce, or subvert, urban social hierarchies?
•    What does it mean to love an urban landscape in dance?
•    How can dances suggest alternative urban topographies? How can
thinking about topography suggest alternative urban dances?
•    How do commerce and ‘the arts’ intersect in the city? What is the
business of culture?
•    In what ways do cities inform and choreograph nostalgia and memory?
•    How do city settings choreograph inhabitants’ relationship to their
environment, for example through urban development and renewal programs,
‘white flight’, gentrification, and  investment in infrastructure?
•    What is the relationship of the urban to the suburban, and how does
dance contribute to upholding boundaries between them? Some sites to
consider include local dance studios,  regional companies, professional
schools and companies, or dance on television.
•    How has an idea of the city mapped itself onto dance practices,
especially in so-called urban/street/hip hop dance forms?
•    In what ways do city structures guide, promote, script, or inhibit
social relations? Does study of dance in global south cities mark structures
of power, or shift embodiments of "modernity?"
•    Is an urban environment more likely to foster trend-setting or
trend-following among dancers and choreographers? How do dance innovations
spread from one city to another? At what point in a city's growth can it be
said to have a local dance style?
Submissions should be submitted by December 15, 2011.

http://sdhs.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=188

Please refer to the SDHS website at www.sdhs.org to review the full call for
proposals and to review the SDHS Guidelines for Making Proposals.
Information regarding the University of the Arts campus can be found at:
www.uarts.edu.

Information on the following awards is also available on the SDHS website:
•    de la Torre Bueno Prize® - Awarded annually to a book published in
the English language that advances the field of dance studies.
•    Distinction in Dance Award - Annual award that is made to an
individual whose professional, artistic or scholarly work has made a
significant contribution to the field of dance.
•    Gertrude Lippincott Award – Awarded annually to the best
English-language article published  in dance studies
•    Graduate Student Travel Grants – A travel stipend to defray
conference travel expenses
•    Selma Jeanne Cohen Award – Writing Award for Students

SDHS 2012 Conference Committee
Harmony Bench, DonnaFaye Burchfield , Thomas F. DeFrantz, Kate Elswit,
Rebekah Kowal, Raquel Monroe , Carl Paris, Maria Urrutia, Gabriele Klein,
Jillian Peña

________________________________________
Special Call for Panel Proposals
As we gather this year around issues of the social city, we invite you to
think how we also structure our own scholarly community: Who do you want to
be in dialogue with? Is there an issue to which you want to draw attention?
And in what format?

With the deadline for SDHS 2012 conference submissions approaching, we
wanted to remind members that they are encouraged to submit panel proposals
as well as individual papers.

To name just a few possible formats, in recent years, we have had
roundtables; paper panels curated around a theme with an expert moderator;
and panelists each responding to a chosen topic with shorter papers meant to
spark discussion. Sometimes panelists exchange work in advance, or all read
a chosen text together and respond to it individually.





Thomas F. DeFrantz
Professor, DUKE University
African & African American Studies|Dance
Director, SLIPPAGE:Performance, Culture, Technology
President, Society of Dance History Scholars





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