PERFORM Log

May 1995

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Date:         Mon, 1 May 1995 13:40:25 EST
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         Jesse Hurlbut 
Subject:      PERFORM Business Matters

Here are a few matters of PERFORM-related business:

1) If your e-mail address changes or is discontinued, please
   unsubscribe from PERFORM before termination of your old address.
   (Don't forget to re-subscribe with your NEW address!)  Also, when
   e-mail accumulates in your reader, there is sometimes no room to
   receive additional mail.  In all of these cases, undeliverable
   mail bounces back to the list owner.  In order to avoid overload,
   I have adopted the policy of resetting list options to NOMAIL for
   any account that has bounced mail back five consecutive times.
   If you (or someone you know) appears to have lost contact with
   PERFORM, you may check your list options and reset to MAIL by
   sending the respective commands in a mail message to
   LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

         Q PERFORM  <==(short for Query PERFORM) You will receive a
                       list of your distribution options.

         SET PERFORM MAIL  <==Turns the mail delivery back on.

         SET PERFORM NOMAIL  <==Turns mail delivery off.


***
*** IF YOU KNOW YOU WILL NOT BE CHECKING YOUR MAIL FOR A WHILE,
*** PLEASE SET YOUR OPTIONS TO NOMAIL USING THE ABOVE COMMAND.
***

2) Avoid possible embarrassment by observing these LISTSERV
   conventions:

     - When you hit REPLY from a PERFORM letter, your response is
       sent to the ENTIRE LIST and NOT only to the person who
       originally posted the letter.

     - Send instructions (SUB, UNSUB, SET MAIL, SET NOMAIL, etc) to
       LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

     - Send actual discussion and mail to PERFORM@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

3) You can get a list of PERFORMers and their e-mail addresses by
   sending the following command to LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

      REVIEW PERFORM

4) Help regarding LISTSERV commands and conventions is also available
   by sending the command INFO to any LISTSERV location.

1) I remind you that PERFORM can be used as a means for the
   distribution of other kinds of materials besides mail.  If anyone
   has papers not otherwise destined for publication, abstracts,
   bibliographies, course syllabi, etc. please contact me directly.

   In particular, I would like to invite all participants in the MRDS
   conference sessions (at MLA or Kalamazoo) to submit copies of
   their papers.

   These materials can be maintained on the PERFORM FILESERVER.  To
   date, the FILESERVER includes monthly logs of all correspondence
   on PERFORM (since December 1992) and a short conference paper
   on feasts and funhouses in XVth-Century Burgundy (significant
   only as a demonstration of the FILESERVER's capabilities--
   sans doute!).  For a list of these items, send a one-line
   mail message to LISTSERV@IUBVM.UCS.INDIANA.EDU

          GET PERFORM FILELIST

   (Searcheable GOPHER access to these materials should be made
   available sometime this Summer.)

As always, if you have questions or problems, do not hesitate to
contact me directly.

Jesse Hurlbut
PERFORM List Administrator
jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu
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Date:         Mon, 1 May 1995 21:24:44 -0400
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         CLARK@SGCCVA.SUNYGENESEE.CC.NY.US
Subject:      CALL FOR PAPERS

                 ECTC - EAST CENTRAL THEATRE CONFERENCE

                 A CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, AND PROGRAMS
                        1996 CONVENTION PROGRAM

                        *THEATRE FOR A NEW AGE*

The 1996 Convention will be held at the Radisson Plaza Hotel at Mark Center,
Alexandria, VA on February 16, 17, and 18, 1996

ECTC is looking for panels, workshops, performances, papers or presentations
that are in any area of theatre; production, performance, history, criticism or
theory.

For an application form and further information please contact:

Margaret M. Tocci, Program Chair
6133 Redwood Lane                       Phone: 703-960-7713
Alexandria, VA. 22310                   FAX: 703-317-0568

ECTC is a regional organization that includes the states of New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Our members are from all area of the theatre; High School, College/University,
Community, Professional and special interest areas.

Thomas R. Clark
Genesee Community College
Batavia, NY 14020
716-343-0055  x6448
e-mail  clark@sgccva.sungenesee.cc.ny.us
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Date:         Tue, 2 May 1995 15:31:01 -0500
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
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From:         "THOMAS P. CAMPBELL" 
Organization: Wabash College
Subject:      Thomas Binkley

I received a message yesterday that Thomas Binkley died last Friday
at his home in Bloomington, Indiana.  David Lasocki at Indiana
University has been commissioned to write an assessment of Tom's life
and work as a performer and educator for the new eponymous Early
Music America quarterly magazine.  He would "be most grateful to hear
from those of you who performed, worked, or studied with Tom and
would be willing to send me (or talk to me on the phone about) your
impressions of his career."  He can be reached at LASOCKI@INDIANA.EDU.
He is very prompt about answering mail.
--
A. Planchart has written a eulogy on the AMS list.
--
Tom Campbell
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Date:         Wed, 3 May 1995 13:37:56 +0059
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
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From:         Helen Ostovich 

perform nomail



Helen Ostovich
Department of English / Editor, _REED Newsletter_
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada  L8S 4L9
(905) 525-9140 x24496
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Date:         Sun, 7 May 1995 19:33:05 -0500
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         "SCOTT A. CLARK." 
Subject:      help

v'o!\c#AwGhelp
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Date:         Sun, 7 May 1995 19:52:22 -0500
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         "SCOTT A. CLARK." 
Subject:      help

Dr. Henford:
        I'm trying to get to the online resource for Medieval Performing Arts.
   I have a list that says i should ask for help at this address?  Am i in the r
   ight place?
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Date:         Tue, 9 May 1995 08:43:14 -0500
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         "Christopher R. Doelle" 
Subject:      Re: help

>v'o!\c#AwGhelp
>
>
unsubscribe PERFORM Chris Doelle
cdoelle@sam.neosoft.com
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Date:         Thu, 11 May 1995 10:42:13 +0100
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         J C Cummings 
Subject:      SITM FTP is up and running (fwd)

Forwarded message:
From <@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU:owner-reed-l@UTORONTO.BITNET> Thu May 11 06:54 BST
 1995
Message-Id: <199505110554.GAA26419@gps.leeds.ac.uk>
Date:         Wed, 10 May 1995 11:28:30 -0400
Reply-To: "REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion"
 
Sender: "REED-L: Records of Early English Drama Discussion"
 
From: Steven Killings 
Subject:      SITM FTP is up and running
Comments: To: reed-l@vm.utcc.utoronto.ca
To: Multiple recipients of list REED-L
 
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 1416

        For those interested in the upcoming Societe Internationale pour
l'Etude du Theatre Medieval's 8th colloquium at Toronto in August an FTP
site has been set up with conference materials, discussion summaries, and
discussion paper topics. To access it, ftp to ftp.epas.utoronto.ca and goto
the directory pub/cch/SITM. The site has been organized according to session.
        For those on the list who are participating in the conference, you
should be receiving your papers on disk, an updated program, and more
conference information within a week or so. After this mailing we will be
starting to send disks to conference registrants.
        If you have any questions regarding the SITM ftp site please contact
me at killings@epas.utoronto.ca

p.s. Could someone please cross-post this to PERFORM as I am not signed up
with that listserv.
_____________________________________________________________________
Steven J. Killings                       killings@epas.utoronto.ca  |\
Centre For Medieval Studies                                         ||\
University of Toronto                                               ||
Toronto, ON                          Pro vendendum hic locus est    ||
Canada M5S 1A1                                                      ||
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Date:         Thu, 11 May 1995 08:49:58 -1000
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         Grace S Agodong 
Subject:      Subscription

Can someone please tell me how to subscribe to this list? Thanks in advance.

Grace S. Agodong
agodong@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Date:         Mon, 15 May 1995 23:56:39 -0700
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         "Jesse D. Hurlbut" 
Organization: Brigham Young University
Subject:      Going off-duty

I'm on my way out of town to do some research so I am going to be
away from the controls for about a month.  If everyone behaves
themselves (as you always do), there should be no problems.

Best,

Jesse Hurlbut
PERFORM List Administrator
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Date:         Tue, 16 May 1995 21:07:19 +0000
Reply-To:     br@inwave.demon.co.uk
Sender:       PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
From:         Barry Russell 
Organization: at home (Oxford UK)
Subject:      Parisian fairground theatre

A NEW HYPERTEXT - AND THREE NEW PLAYS

     http://www.uqam.ca/theatrales/foires/index.htm

In 1678 two acrobats, Charles Allard and Maurice Vondrebeck, put
together an international company to present theatre at the Parisian
fairs of Saint-Germain and Saint-Laurent. It's an important moment in
the history of popular theatre: close to the origins of musical
comedy, English pantomime, vaudeville, boulevard theatre and the
modern circus.

Until now very little has been known of the two men, their families
or their work. The only text we had (in a version dated 1743) has
been largely ignored since the Italian scholar, Marcello Spaziani,
threw doubt on its authenticity.

Now, for the first time, we present on the Internet the original
text of the disputed play, along with two hitherto unknown
contemporary texts. These discoveries give us an opportunity to
consider what the two acrobats achieved in their 1678 season.

In chosing hypertext as the form of publication, we have aimed at
creating an open structure that is capable of continuous development,
and which will we hope will be accessible to all, whether as readers
or as future collaborators.

This is the first hypertext project undertaken by QUEATRE, of the
University of Quebec in Montreal. I offer my grateful thanks to Andre
G. Bourassea, founder of QUEATRE, and Pierre Cormier, of the
Telecommunications Service of UQAM, for their warm electronic
hospitality.

Barry Russell
br@inwave.demon.co.uk
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Date:         Tue, 23 May 1995 15:07:02 -0400
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
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From:         Steve Wright 
Subject:      Medieval Cultural Studies Conference

From:   IN%"CHAUCER@UICVM.BITNET"  "Chaucer Discussion Group" 16-MAY-1995
 23:31:37.20
To:     IN%"CHAUCER@UICVM.cc.uic.edu"  "Multiple recipients of list CHAUCER"
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Subj:   Cultural Studies Conference

                         Cultural Frictions:
                      Medieval Cultural Studies
                        in Post-Modern Contexts

          A Local and World-Wide Interactive Conference at
                       Georgetown University
                           Washington, DC
                                 *
                        October 27-28, 1995


                            Sponsored by:
                       * Georgetown University
                    (Medieval Studies Program and
     Graduate Program in Communication, Culture, and Technology)
                  * George Washington University
                    (Program in Human Sciences)
                * The Catholic University of America
                    * The University of Virginia


                           KEYNOTE SPEAKER
                    Carolyn Dinshaw, UC-Berkeley

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:

This conference will be devoted to the ways in which medieval
literary studies are being reconceived and redefined with the
models for social and cultural history developed in recent work
on cultural studies and post-modern theory.

Post-modern theory is also beginning to notice the impact of the
new networked hypermedia environment of the World Wide Web on
literary studies and the humanities, and the Web as a new context
for cultural studies will be both a topic for discussion as well
as the medium for transmitting this discussion worldwide during
the weekend of the conference.

THE WORLD-WIDE INTERACTIVE FORMAT:
ACTING LOCALLY, THINKING GLOBALLY

Papers presented at the conference will be published on the World
Wide Web through the Labyrinth about 5 days before the meeting at
Georgetown. Each paper will have a hyperlink to a comment form,
which will allow readers around the world to respond to the
papers and thus participate in the conference remotely. The
comment files will also allow comments, either by the authors of
the papers or by other virtual (or real) conference participants.

The last session of the conference will be devoted to reviewing
and discussing the accumulated global commentary on line, with a
live Internet connection and projection monitor. Conference
participants at Georgetown will also be given access to computer
labs with Net and Web software.

REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ACCOMODATIONS

The registration fee for the day-and-a-half conference will be
$25 for regular participants and $15 for students. Blocks of
hotel rooms will be reserved at the Georgetown University
Conference Center and at some local hotels for those wishing
overnight accomodations. For further information and registration
materials, send e-mail to:
Martin Irvine(irvinemj@gusun.georgetown.edu),
or surface mail to:

       Professor Martin Irvine
       Cultural Frictions Conference
       Department of English
       305 New North Building
       Georgetown University
       Washington, DC 20057

       Phone: (202) 687-7533

CONFERENCE WEB SITE

For further information and Web resources in cultural studies,
visit the Conference Web Site, which will be under development
through October '95:
http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/conf/cs95/

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Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 23:22:10 -0400
From: "Martin Irvine, Georgetown University" 
Subject: Cultural Studies Conference
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Date:         Tue, 23 May 1995 16:23:20 -0400
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From:         cies1@CIESNET.CIES.ORG
Subject:      Fulbright Deadline Reminder

                                            Please Post/Disseminate To Lists


Topic: Deadline Reminder

FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES FOR FACULTY AND PROFESSIONALS IN
THEATER, FILM, AND TELEVISION

         August 1 Deadline Approaching for the 1996-97 Competition

What follows is a description of Fulbright grants for lecturing and advanced
research worldwide.  These grants are excellent professional development
opportunities and provide funding to pursue professional interests abroad.


Fulbright Grants for Faculty and Professionals

Description:  1,000 awards for college and university faculty and nonacademic
professionals to lecture or pursue advanced research and/or related
professional activity abroad.  For U.S. candidates, grants are available to
nearly 148 countries.

Application:  U.S. candidates have an August 1 deadline for lecturing or
research awards.  Non-U.S. candidates apply in their home country for awards
to come to the United States.

Areas of Interest:  Opportunities exist in every area of the social sciences,
arts and humanities, sciences, and many professional fields.  All
specializations within theater, film, and television are included in program
offerings.

Range of Consideration:  Undergraduate and graduate teaching; individual
research; professional collaboration; joint research collaboration; and much
more.

Eligibility:  Ph.D. in hand is the standard requirement, along with U.S.
citizenship.

Grant Duration:  Awards range in duration from two months to a full academic
year. Alternatively, the appropriate terminal plus a comparable level of
professional experience may be substituted in many instances.

Language: The majority of teaching assignments are in English. Required in
certain countries for certain areas of activity.

Action:  U.S. candidates may receive detailed descriptions of award
opportunities and application materials via cies1@ciesnet.cies.org
(REQUESTS FOR MAILING OF MATERIALS ONLY!).

Non-U.S. candidates must contact the Fulbright Commission or U.S. embassy in
their home country.
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Date:         Fri, 26 May 1995 17:09:02 -0400
Reply-To:     PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts 
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From:         Julie L Crosby 
Subject:      Call for Papers (X-Posted)

REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sixth Annual Columbia Medieval Guild Conference
"PERFORMANCE, RITUAL & SPECTACLE IN THE MIDDLE AGES"
Saturday, October 14, 1995

Keynote Address: DR. MIRI RUBIN, Pembroke College, Oxford
Roundtable Moderator: PROF. ROBERT HANNING, Columbia University
Performance: The Digby KILLING OF THE CHILDREN

GRADUATE STUDENTS: Please send a 250-word abstract and a brief biography,
postmarked by June 2, 1995, to:
        Medieval Guild
        Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
        602 Philosophy Hall
        Columbia University
        New York, NY  10027

For further information, please contact:
        Karen Bezella           Julie Crosby
        kjb5@columbia.edu       jlc47@columbia.edu
        (212)663-6077           (212)355-3382
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Date:         Tue, 30 May 1995 07:13:14 -0400
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From:         Cynthia Dessen 
Subject:      ACTER residencies

ACTER(A Center for Theatre, Education, and Research), after 19 successful
years at UC-Santa Barbara under the direction of Prof. Homer Swander,
moved last summer to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Prof. Alan Dessen is the Director, Cynthia Dessen the General Manager. We
schedule week long teaching and performing residencies on university and
college campuses by Actors from the London Stage, 5 actors with extensive
experience at the RSC, the National, and British stage and television.
Each residency consists of 3 performances of a full length Shakespearean
play, plus two one-handers(one person shows devised by the actors), and
teaching in up to 33 classes in a variety of disciplines. The actors'
prime purpose in teaching is to show that the Shak. text is not simply
words on a page, but a script to which the actor brings a fund of
knowledge and questions which the academic may not have been aware of.
The actor coming to your literature or theatre class will get the
students up out of
their seats and working on scenes. The actors often also come to classes
in other disciplines(history, speech, leadership, comparative lit,
etc);here, too, they do not lecture or simply read mellifluously but try
to relate the subject matter to their dramatic work and open up the
subject in new ways for the students.
        The Spring 1996 play is Macbeth and we have a few openings left.
In 1996-97 we will offer Much Ado About Nothing in the fall and Romeo and
Juliet in the spring. If you want more information or are interested in a
booking, contact Cynthia Dessen off list at csdessen@email.unc.edu or
call 919-967-4265. ACTER has also worked with a combination of a
university or college and a community arts group or a high school. The
ACTER performances are minimalist in terms of props, costumes, etc., but
rich in language and imagination as 5 actors play all the 30-odd roles in
the play. Let us hear from you soon!