BANGALORE UNIVERSITY

Department of Performing Arts

Bangalore 560056

in Collaboration with

Association for Theatre Research

as part of Universitys

Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations

is organizing a

International Conference
On

Theatre and other Performing Arts: Aesthetics,

Polity, Economy, History and Space
Date: 29th to 31st March, 2016

The Department
The Department of Performing Arts was started in the year 1973. The Department is
located at Sneha Bhavana, Jnanbharathi Campus, Bangalore. The Department has well
equipped class rooms and labs. It also has theatre on wheels, a programme that provides
a platform for students to perform plays based on contemporary issues in different parts
of Karnataka. The syllabi and the performances of the Department focus on modern
trends and innovations in the field of Performing Arts. Along with this, the Department
also has important outreach activities like the annual National and International
conference, World Theatre Day, Drama productions and presentation of Ballets and
Music concerts.

Call for papers

Theatre research is and always has been an interdisciplinary area of research. The present
conference continuing this tradition would like to place the theatrical performances along
with other performing arts such as Dance, Music (both vocal and instrumental) and its
aesthetics in an interdisciplinary perspective by exploring its inter-linkages with
aesthetics, polity, society and economy in terms of both chronos and topos. This dual axis
of time and space would reveal the dynamics of change across culture in performing arts
and its aesthetics. The conference aims to bring together scholars from both humanities
and social sciences to reflect on the changing dynamics of theatre across the globe.

Like any other social/aesthetic phenomenon, performing arts are also a part and parcel
of social realities. It depicts/sustains the social inequalities as well as political resistance
against such inequalities. It is in this context that the performing arts come alive to
people. Thus, as a creative art, performing arts push towards social change and tries to
find space to reinvent the civic aptitude for a better future. Responding to the society,
polity and economy around it, performing practices too have undergone a lot of changes,
sometimes leaving long lasting changes, sometimes vanishing after a mere experiment. A
holistic understanding of these changes/experiments is possible only by drawing on the
methodologies of other disciplines. We invite academicians/scholars from the humanities
and beyond, and artists and performers working in different genres and media, to
contribute to an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which creative production
whether scripted, improvised, devised, choreographed, or spontaneousexpands/alters
the civic imagination and summons and configures new understandings of public spaces.

The broad themes for presentations could be as follows:

o Performing Arts and Linguistic Nationalism
o Performing Arts and Nation, Caste, Gender
o Performing Arts and Sexual-minorities
o Public Spaces and Performances
o Question of Representation in/through Performing Arts
o Performing Arts and Multi-culture
o Performing Arts and Social change
o Changes in Performing Arts
o Dance and Theatre
o Music and Theatre
o Musical Play
o Dance Drama
o Fine Arts and Theatre
o Fusion of Various Arts
o History through Performing Arts
o History of Drama, Dance and Music
o Economic Aspects of Performing Arts
o Political Aspects of Performing Arts
o Issues of patronage to Performing Arts in past and present

20 minutes will be given for each presentation

There would be theatre and folk performances as part of the seminar in the
evenings
Last date to send abstracts: 10th March 2016,

Last date to send full papers: 20th March 2016

Last date for registration: 20th March 2016

Selected papers will be published with ISBN

Registration fee

General Conference: Rs. 2500/- For foreign Delegates U S D- 50

Research Scholars: Rs.1000/- For foreign Delegates U S D- 20

Send abstracts and full papers to buconference@gmail.com

For details contact

Prof. Nagesh V Bettakote

Conference Coordinator

Dept. of Performing Arts, Bangalore University,

Jnanabharathi Campus, BANGALURU-560056

Phone: (O) 080-22961708/1701,

Email: drvnb1965@gmail.com