[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--The 2nd International Yiddish Theatre Festival: Call for Papers

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

Feb. 9, 2011

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 21:32:42 -0500
From: Anna Gonshor <anna.gonshor at mcgill.ca>

Call for Papers

The 2nd International Yiddish Theatre Festival sponsored by the Segal 
Centre for the Performing Arts will be held June 13-22, 2011 in Montreal, 
Quebec.  In conjunction with this event, the Department of Jewish Studies 
at McGill University is once again organizing an academic conference on 
Yiddish theatre which will take place on the 16th and 17th of June.

We are seeking papers on the following topics:

The cross-fertilization between European and Yiddish and Yiddish and 
American Theatre

Women in Yiddish Theatre

Yiddish Theatre Music

Yiddish Cinema

Interested parties should submit a 300 word proposal in English by 
February 28, 2011 to sympyiddishtheatre at gmail.com

Travel and hotel subsidies are available.

Complimentary festival passes and a gala Friday night Shabbat dinner will 
be included.

For further information contact Tamara Kramer at tkramer at segalcentre.org

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