2010 SETC Theatre Symposium
was held
April 9-11, 2010, Agnes Scott College, Deactur, GA

Theatre Symposium convened in Decatur, Georgia, April 9-11 to hear papers by 24 scholars and artists on the theoretical and historical intersections of theatre and film.  Held on the beautiful campus of Agnes Scott College, this year's Symposium was anchored by the University of Pittsburgh's Bruce A. McConachie, author of Engaging Audiences: A Cognitive Approach to Spectating in the Theatre (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008). Professor McConachie's keynote address, "Theatre and Film in Evolutionary Perspective" drew on his groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work in human cognition and performance.

This year's Symposium papers covered a variety of subtopics—virtual reality, the digital revolution in London Theatre, the neuroscientific basis for the perception of "liveness," the role played by home video and film within the devastated theatrical communities of Nigeria, representations of live performance in cinema, drive-ins and stage parody, multimedia, and filmed faux boxing matches on the Vaudeville circuit, to name just a few.

Many thanks to Theatre Symposium editor J.K. Curry for organizing this stimulating weekend and to David Thompson and Agnes Scott for hosting. Selected papers from this year's event will be published in Theatre Symposium, vol. 19, due for publication in 2011.

- Scott Phillips

Questions?

Dr. J.K. Curry
Editor, Theatre Symposium
Department of Theatre and Dance
Wake Forest University
P.O. Box 7264, Reynolds Station
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

curryjk@wfu.edu or (336) 758-3941

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A History of Theatre Symposium Journals:

SETC Theatre Symposium Past Issues
Volume	Title
1	Commedia dell'Arte Performance
2	Theatre in the Antebellum South
3	Voice of the Dramaturg
4	The Reemergence of the Theatre Building in the Renaissance
5	Drama as Rhetoric/Rhetoric as Drama
6	Crosscurrents in the Drama: East and West
7	Theatre and Violence
8	Theatre at the Margins: The Political, the Popular, the Personal, the Profane
9	Theatre and Politics in the Twentieth Century
10	Representations of Gender on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage
11	Constructions of Race in Southern Theatre: From Federalism to the Federal Theatre Project
12	Elizabethan Performances in North American Spaces
13	Theatre in Transit: Tours of the South
14	Theatre, War and Propaganda
15	Theatre and the Moral Order
16	Comedy Tonight!
17	Outdoor Drama
18	The Prop's the Thing: Stage Properties Reconsidered
19	Theatre and Film