CFP: Performance and the Global City

[Kim Solga]

Hi once more all,

A special plug for this CFP: the edited volume out of which it grows  
features several fabulous essays by our colleagues Ric Knowles, Laura  
Levin, Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Tompkins. The second volume, we  
hope, will be even better, and this panel series will be an important  
first step toward it.

Best!
Kim

ATHE 2009 Call for Papers

“Performance and the Global City”

Convened by D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, and Kim Solga

To celebrate the summer 2009 launch of our new essay collection,  
Performance and the City (Palgrave), and in preparation for a possible  
second volume, Performance and the City: Global Stages, we invite  
proposals for papers investigating the intersections of urban issues  
and performances of all kinds in cities beyond the Anglophone West.  
“Performance and the Global City” at ATHE 2009 will comprise a series  
of paper panels hosted across several working groups; papers will not  
be clustered according to geographic region, but will rather be  
grouped around the urban policy and culture issues that each  
addresses. We are especially interested in the relationship among  
theatre events, both formal and informal, and any number of urban  
culture issues, including: urban policy (its making and its  
implementation); civic architecture (both utopic and resistive);  
discourses of municipal and state power; underground city-building  
movements; homelessness and other forms of dispossession; racial  
tensions; other embodied tensions. The panels will ask the broad but  
focusing questions: How does performance intervene in the making of  
the contemporary non-Western city? How is that city “global,” and in  
what ways do theatre and performance help to shape the understanding  
of that term, and mitigate its defining tensions, outside of the  
Anglophone West?

Specific topics to be addressed may include (but not be limited to):

• performance, the urban, and mobility studies

• border studies

• east asian urban development

• utopian architectures in “third world” global cities

• performance and the Mediterranean city, past and present

• traditional performances in contemporary urban contexts

• indigenous peoples and the urban (in both Western and non-Western  
city spaces)

• architecture and design for refugee communities

• the civic impact of civil and global war

Please send 250-word abstracts, a 50-word bio, and your contact  
information to: dhopkins at mail.sdsu.edu; morr at mail.sdsu.edu; and ksolga at uwo.ca 
  NO LATER THAN 24 OCTOBER 2008. Successful participants will be  
notified by 31 October 2008.
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