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<P>- <FONT face="Wide Latin" size=5>CALL for PAPERS -</P>
<P></FONT><FONT size=4><FONT face="Times New Roman">THEATRE and
EXILE</FONT></P></FONT><FONT size=4>
<P>An international conference to be held at</P>
<P>The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama </P>
<P>University of Toronto</P>
<P>March 21-23, 2002</P></FONT>
<P> </P>
<P>Graduate students, faculty and theatre practitioners are invited to submit
proposals for</P>
<P>20-minute papers on the theme of theatre and exile to be delivered at the
University of Toronto, March 21<SUP>st</SUP> - 23<SUP>rd</SUP> 2002. </P>
<P>The broad focus of this international, cross-disciplinary conference will be
on phenomena that have played a significant role in the theatrical and political
history of the 20<SUP>th</SUP> and 21<SUP>st</SUP> centuries: exile and
emigration, the reconfiguration of boundaries and the significance of place. The
conference will attempt to theorize the notion of exile in order to encompass
the wide range of borderline phenomena and to imagine practical approaches of
transcending traditional oppositions such as own/foreign, nostalgia/familiarity,
assimilation/difference as they relate to theatre, drama and theatre
practice.</P>
<P>Areas to be explored may include: the directing, staging, performing and
reception of exile; theatre of exile and multiculturalism; the politics of race,
gender and ethnicity in the performance of exile; isolation, nostalgia and the
pleasure of exile; playwrights between two languages; exilic identity and
experience in theatre; the role, place and status of émigrés in contemporary
theatre.</P>
<P>Proposals should be double-spaced and not more than 300 words. They should be
sent by <B>December 1<SUP>st</B></SUP> to:<B> <FONT face=Arial,Helvetica
size=2>exile_conference@yahoo.com</P></B></FONT>
<P>or by mail to: Conference on Theatre and Exile</P>
<P>Graduate Centre for Study of Drama</P>
<P>214 College Street</P>
<P>Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z9</P>
<P>Canada</P>
<P>Selected conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of
Modern Drama.</P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>