The second symposium will take place on 16th April 2016 and is entitled ‘Muse of Modernity? Remembering, Mediating and Modernising Popular Dance. The deadline for the call for papers is 2nd November 2015. Click the link or see below for more details: 
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Dancing with Memory project is now inviting submissions for its second symposium “Muse of Modernity? Remembering, Mediating and Modernising Popular Dance”.
This symposium seeks to address the mediated memories of popular dance practices. From the colonial circulation of dance prints to YouTube, popular dances have been ‘captured’ in mediated forms. As texts, artworks, films and digital files, popular dance forms gain a mobility, exchangeability and material persistence that alter their relationships to discourses of modernity, capitalism and history. Mediation may grant popular dance forms entry into the literary canon, the modern art market and the archive (offline and online), changing the way they are remembered (or forgotten). Meanwhile, these mediations continue to interact with popular dance practices in live spaces of performance and participation. This symposium focuses on popular dance forms as they shift back and forth between the immediate and the mediated, the repertoire and the archive (Taylor, 2003), ‘unauthorised’ popular culture and authored text, image or film (Holt, 2011). Researchers and researcher-practitioners working on popular dance forms in any time period, cultural context and mediated form are welcome, as are those who wish to interrogate ‘popular dance’ as a category. Issues may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• If popular dance forms can be considered practices of memory (repertoires, in Diana Taylor’s terms), how are these mnemonic practices changed by ‘fixing’ (or, indeed, mobilising) them in a mediated form? How do popular dancing bodies, texts, images, films and digital forms carry memory differently? What happens to memory as it shifts between these different manifestations? And why do these shifts occur?
• What are the ethics of representing popular dance forms? How are popular dance histories written, visualised or performed, and by whom? Who chooses what is remembered and forgotten in the cultural memories of popular dance forms?
• How do the identity politics of gender, race, class, nationality and sexuality function in mediations of popular dance? What role does the gendering of the muse/artist relationship play historically in the representation and memorialisation of popular dance forms?
• To what extent can the representation of popular dance forms in writing, art and film be considered an act of creation of ‘the modern’? If works of art depicting popular dance forms are labelled ‘modern’, then how ‘modern’ are the dance forms they represent? How do popular dance forms engage with the practices, hierarchies and power relationships inherent in notions of modernity and modernism?

Future opportunities
Selected speakers from this symposium and the Dancing (trans)national memories symposium (20^th June 2015) will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a peer-reviewed volume on popular dance and cultural memory to be edited by Clare Parfitt-Brown.
How 
to 
apply
Please 
send 
the following 
by 
2^nd November 2015 to
dancingwithmemory@:

• Document 
1: Title, Abstract and
 Bibliography
(see 
Proposals
 below). Proposals for pre-organised panels are also welcomed, in which case please include the title of the panel, a 100-word overview of the panel and a title, abstract and bibliography for each paper.
• Document 2: Title, presenter’s 
name,
affiliated institution, email address,
format of presentation, space and time 
requirements (if relevant) and AVS needs (see Technical
 Requirements below).

Proposals

• An
 abstract
 of 
300
 words 
is
 required, outlining 
the key
issues
 and
methodology
• An 
indicative 
bibliography 
of 
4‐5 
key 
texts 
should 
be 
included
• ​The name of the speaker should not appear in document 1, as the abstracts will be blind reviewed.

Technical 
Requirements

• Presentations 
may 
take 
the
 form 
of 
a 
paper, 
lecture‐demonstration, workshop or alternative format (please specify)
• Paper 
presentations 
should
 be 
20 
minutes 
in 
length
• Other formats can 
be 
45 
or 
60 
minutes 
in 
length. Please 
indicate your space 
requirements.
• Please identify any AVS needs, e.g.: DVD 
playback, data 
projector,
or
internet 
access

Accommodation
See Senate House website: