CFP CATR Fredericton: Curated Panel CORRECTED EMAIL

[Judith Rudakoff]

Hello friends and colleagues,

As the deadline of December 1 approaches for submissions to curated 
panels for CATR Fredericton, it's been brought to my attention that in 
the originally circulated CFP, my email address was incorrect. To that 
end, I am re submitting the CFP with notice that my email is 
rudakoff at yorku.ca (not york.ca). Apologies for any confusion.

Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) conference, Fredericton, NB
May 28-31, 2011

Curated Panel A: Border Crossings and Territory without Boundaries: 
Exploring the Body
as Place

Organizer: Judith Rudakoff, York University
Deadline: December 1, 2010

This panel will re-focus the Congress theme of “Exploring People and 
Places” to “Exploring
People as Places” and in so doing invite proposals for papers dealing 
with the human body as a
site of performance, with a particular interest in work that reflects 
the diversity of the Canadian
cultural identity. In this instance, “cultural” should be interpreted as 
widely as possible, bridging
and expanding such boundaried territories as geographical, ethnic, 
political, sexual and linguistic
identities.

In creating work in this mode, artists have and continue to confront 
notions of natural versus
authentic, real versus fake, assumed versus inherent, and art versus 
nature in a continuum that
offers scholars a wealth of material to theorize, problematize, analyze 
and, ultimately, canonize.
Explorations of one type might examine how the human body, in its 
biologically original or
technically enhanced and surgically altered state, might serve as a type 
of terra cognita/incognita
for the artist to explore. Further, explorations might engage with the 
distinctions, in particular
with respect to the creative interpretation or re-imagination of 
existing form or bordered territory
from a personal or an external perspective.

Topics for proposed papers might include but not be exclusive to
• performing the body,
• body as a site of conflict or conundrum and how/why that is performed,
• crossing boundaries or mapping uncharted territory as theatrical 
metaphors for body
modification,
• the body as event.

Papers may examine one performance or the body of work of a specific 
artist or a series of
complementary or contrasting performances. As with analysis of any site 
specific performance,
work examined should not simply use the body as a backdrop, but rather 
exemplify the
inextricable relationship between human form and the content, theme and 
artistic goal of the
particular performance.

Those interested in presenting on the panel should submit a 300-­‐word 
abstract. Papers, if
accepted should conform to CATR guidelines for length.

Abstracts, along with a short bio, should be sent to Judith Rudakoff at 
rudakoff at yorku.ca on
or
before December 1, 2010.

-- 
Judith Rudakoff (Dr.)
Professor
Department of Theatre
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York University            Explain to me and I may remember
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