<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Apologies for cross-posting.</div><div><br></div><div>Sarah</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Anna Notaro <<a href="mailto:A.Z.Notaro@DUNDEE.AC.UK">A.Z.Notaro@DUNDEE.AC.UK</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> Anna Notaro <<a href="mailto:A.Z.Notaro@DUNDEE.AC.UK">A.Z.Notaro@DUNDEE.AC.UK</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Saturday, 1 June 2013 10:37 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> <<a href="mailto:MECCSA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK">MECCSA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Cfp "Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences"<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><style id="owaParaStyle" type="text/css">
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</style><div><div style="direction:ltr; font-family:Tahoma; color:#000000; font-size:10pt"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">The Interdisciplinary Journal
<b style="">Anglistica Aion</b> (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Web Site:
<a href="http://www.anglistica.unior.it/">http://www.anglistica.unior.it/</a>) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">is seeking contributions to a special issue on
</span><b><i style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Attention, Agency, Affect: In the Flow of Performing Audiences</span></i></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Since their controversial inception on the academic cultural stage of the last five decades, Performance Studies have always vindicated an inter-disciplinary
or anti-disciplinary engagement with the liminal, interstitial and translational aspects of any politics of identity and culture, and thus marked a major shift from given products to provisional processes, from theoretic abstractions to living practices, stressing
the centrality of the body, the everyday, and affect in every aspect of human activity. At the same time, as Marvin Carlson argues, performance as a central, even if contentious, metaphor for almost any form of contemporary critical discourse “implies not
just doing or even re-doing, but a self-consciousness about doing and re-doing on the part of both performers and spectators” (2004) calling into question traditional interpretations of the ways in which ‘texts do things with words.’
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Starting from these premises we welcome contributions that discuss the contested
concept of ‘participation’ from an inter-disciplinary perspective, investigating how a critical focus on performance and performativity can help to reframe, revise and challenge existing notions of publics and audiences (both as spectators and as readers).
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">-
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:7.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black"><span style=""> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the impact
of performing arts and relational models of spectatorship upon literary studies (how the notion of performance may help to reframe the analysis of self-conscious narrative as performing texts) with particular attention to digital literature;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="">
</span>-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the interstitial interplay – both creative and critical – between authorial textuality and performative event;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="">
</span>-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the relations between recently emerging participatory modes of spectatorship and other models of social and communal interaction in the dramatic context of glocalization;</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="">
</span>-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the importance of orality, physicality and affect in the ongoing debate on participation;
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-indent:-18.0pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="">
</span>-</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 7pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">the influences of audience reception theory, feminist and queer theory, cultural and postcolonial studies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Please send abstract (300 words) to the Editors</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">:
C. Maria Laudando (<a href="mailto:cmlaudando@unior.it">cmlaudando@unior.it</a>) and Anna Notaro (<a href="mailto:a.z.notaro@dundee.ac.uk">a.z.notaro@dundee.ac.uk</a>)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Deadline for abstracts:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><span style="">
</span>31 July 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; line-height:normal; background:white"><b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Deadline for completed articles:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> 30 November 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style=""> </span></p><div><br><div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><div style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:13px"><div style="font-size:13px; font-family:Tahoma"><p>Dr Anna Notaro</p><p>Programme Leader</p><p>Contemporary Media Theory</p>
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. 13 Perth Rd.<br>
University of Dundee<br><p>Dundee DD1 4HT (UK)</p><p>tel. +441382385654</p><p>fax ++441382226136</p><p>personal homepage: <a href="http://www.notarofam.com/annawork" tabindex="0">www.notarofam.com/annawork</a></p><p> Twitter: @Notanna1<br></p></div></div></div></div></div><br><span style="font-size:10pt">The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096</span></div></div>
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