The conference is sponsored by The Chicago Group on Modern France, the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the Committee on Media Studies, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Doc Films and the Franke Institute for the Humanities. The conference is sponsored by the English Language and Literature Department, the Smart Museum and the Franke Institute for the Humanities. Although studies in both performance practices and the materiality of the text have flourished over the past decade and a half, very little work has been done on the printed play as a site of convergence for these two fields. This conference will focus on the relationship between print and theater history, examining commonalities and differences in the aesthetics, politics and economics of these two fields. The conference is sponsored by the Romance Languages and Literatures Department, the English Department, the Smart Museum, Montaigne Studies, the Chicago Group on Modern France, the Newberry Library and the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
Events are free and open to the public.