2009 ATHE Conference

August 8 – August 11, 2009
 Marriott Marquis – New York, NY
Click here for more conference information from ATHE’s website

• BTA Call for Papers: (Click here to download as a PDF file)
  The Black Theatre Association(BTA) a Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education(ATHE), invites complete panel proposals for ATHE’s 2009 conference.  In light of the conference theme,  “Risking Innovation” BTA is particularly interested in panels that consider creative approaches to exploring ideas, producing theatre, and engaging others within the context of Black experiences in the United States and abroad. Possible panel topics include(bit are not limited to) the following:
  • Peaking students’ Interests in Drama of the Black Diaspora
  • New Conversations in Contemporary Black Performance
  • Black Theatre Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Class and Age

     Complete panel proposals should be submitted online directly to ATHE at http://www.athe.org by 
     November 1st 2008.  Only complete panel proposals will be considered.  Please remember to submit
     requests for anticipated audovisual needs, conference grants, or guest pass grants with your proposal.

     If you are interested in discussing potential panels with other scholars and artists prior to the submission
     deadlines, feel free to post an inquiry to the BTA listserv.

• BTA Debut Panel Call for Papers: (Click here to download a PDF file.)
  The Black Theatre Association (BTA), a focus group of the Association for Theate in Higher Education,
  (ATHE), seeks essay submissions for its 8th Annual Debut Panel.  We encourage all graduate students
  and non-tenured faculty working on African American theatre and performance studies who have never presented at ATHE or a national conference to apply.  Papers may consider any aspect of African
  American dramatic criticism, theatre history, plays, playwrights, performers, directors, designers, etc.
  The highest quality papers will be selected by our distingushed panel of theatre scholar judges. Accepted panelists will present their papers at the ATHE conference, August 8 – 11 in New York, NY.

          All essays submissions should be ten to twelve pages in length, typed, double-spaced(including block
          quotes), and use either Chicago or MLA style citations.  Please e-mail your contact information and
          complete essay submission as an MSWord attatchment.