Announcement: Performing Brazil

138 LATINAMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW PerformingBrazil April 20-21, 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine why several elements of Brazilian culture seem to lend themselves so well to performativity.Are these elements inherently performative or are they made to be so? If so, how, why, and by whom? As participants redefine performance and recast it in a new light, other, key issues will inevitably be drawn into the discussion, foremost among them ethnicity, nationality (and nationalism), gender and identity politics, the nature of escapism and illusion, and the relationship between ideology and performance. We invite scholars representing a wide range of disciplines and art forms to submit proposals for papers or panels that consider the diversity of performance in and of Brazil. Possible topics include: Popular music Carnaval and Other Festivals Futebol as Show/Performance Dance and Capoeira Candomblé and Rites/Rituals Theatre and Performance Social Film of the 1990s and 2000s Telenovelas in the 1990s and 2000s Urban cordel Street preachers Favela chic The aestheticization of poverty Bailes funk Transvestism and other gender acts Installations and interventions Parades and public demonstrations The performance of Brazil in the United States Inquiries and proposals should be sent to Severino Albuquerque (sjalbuqu@wisc.edu) or Kathryn Sánchez (ksanchez2@wisc.edu) Deadline for paper and panel proposals is October 31, 2006. ...