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<h1 style="text-indent: 37pt;" align="center">International Conference</h1>
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<h2 style="text-indent: -81pt;" align="center">“CARNIVAL, ‘PEOPLE’S
ART’ AND TAKING BACK THE
STREETS”</h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style=""> </span>July
30-August 3, 2008, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Toronto</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center">Accolade Centre at <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">York</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> & Koffler
Student Centre
at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Toronto</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></p>
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href="http://www.carnivalconference.ca/">www.CarnivalConference.ca</a>
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CALL FOR PAPERS<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Spreading
from Trinidad through the Caribbean, to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>,
the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">England</st1:country-region>,
as well as <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region>,
and with
analogues in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>,
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and elsewhere, Carnival has developed into one of the most important
global
expressions of popular identity. Both as celebration, and as resistance
art, it
builds on the collision of cultures of Christian European colonizers
and
enslaved West Africans. The claiming of public space in the use of the
street
is a statement of presence that is as much political as artistic.<span
style=""> </span>Organized to coincide with the Caribana
Festival on the streets of Toronto, this conference addresses such
important
issues as Globalization and Commercialization, the formation of
Diasporas, the
origins and development of Carnival, Gender and Racism, the nature of
Postcolonialism today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText2"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Held
as part of the Caribana Festival and Parade, and with the International
Steelpan Association, the conference encourages merging theory with
practice<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"
style="margin-right: -38.15pt; text-align: justify;">The
conference will explore the social, political and cultural aspects of
Carnival
and street theatre, as well as themes of exclusion/otherness, exoticism
and
cross-cultural acceptance, connections across the Diaspora, and
comparisons
between Carnival in Africa, the Caribbean, South and North America,
Europe and
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Papers that address any
aspect of these areas are welcome.<span style=""> </span>While
taking African Carnival and its spread across the <st1:place w:st="on">Caribbean</st1:place>
to other continents as its base, this conference is also intended to
focus on
the widest socio-cultural aspects of this performative street art: the
negotiation of hybrid identity in the post-colonial context;
anthropological
views of historical developments, the politics of carnival and street
theatre,
the economics and commercial pressures.<span style="">
</span>Suggested topics for <b>papers</b> include, but are not limited
to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style="">
</span>Carnival and theatricality<span style="">
</span>*<span style=""> </span>Images of Africa /
Carnival in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>The <st1:place w:st="on">Trinidad</st1:place>
Carnival Tradition<span style="">
</span>*<span style=""> </span>Myth, Magic and Ritual<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Economics and Carnival<span style="">
</span>*<span style=""> </span>Social Activism &
Street
Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Popular Art, Globalization &
Copyright<span style=""> </span>*<span
style=""> </span>Gender, Sexuality, Satire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Caribana: history, performance<span
style=""> </span>*<span
style=""> </span>New Orleans Mardi Gras<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span><span style=""> </span>Cross-Cultural Influence: <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Brazil</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bolivia</st1:country-region>,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Berlin</st1:State></st1:place><span
style=""> </span>*<span style=""> </span>Notting
Hill Carnival<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt;">There are <b>seminars </b><span style="">for
which papers may be submitted, on the
following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 10pt;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">* <span style=""> </span></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Cultural Rights in a Transnational
Festival<span style=""> </span>* Carnival in Literature<span style="">
</span>* Anthropological Approaches to Carnival</span><span
style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt;">There
is also still the opportunity to propose other <b>seminar topics </b></span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-right: -38.15pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">Submissions</span></b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">:<span style=""> </span>Prospective
participants should submit
abstracts of between 100 and 300 words, for individual papers, seminars
or
workshops, by the FINAL deadline of <st1:date year="2008" day="15"
month="5" w:st="on"><b>MAY 15<sup>th</sup> 2008</b></st1:date>.<span
style=""> </span>Abstracts should be sent by email to <a
href="mailto:carnival@yorku.ca">carnival@yorku.ca</a>.<span style="">
</span>Abstracts must include the title of the
paper or presentation, the name(s) of presenter(s); institutional
affiliation;
email address, phone & Fax numbers. Students should identify
themselves as
New Scholars.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">Special Features</span></b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">:<span style=""> </span><span style="">
</span>*<span style=""> </span>Presentation of a performance piece by
Eintou
Springer<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>* Major
Exhibition of Carnival Art<span style=""> </span>*<span
style="">
</span>Kings and Queens Competition and Caribana Parade <span style=""> </span>*
Steelpan Music and Panels<span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>*
<span style=""> </span>Presentation of Carnival Videos<span style="">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">Workshops</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">
on<span style=""> </span>*<span style=""> </span>Producing
Carnival <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>*<span
style=""> </span>Carnival Design<span style=""> </span>*<span
style="">
</span>Street Theatre<span style=""> </span>*<span style="">
</span>Calypso<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: -38pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">CONTACT: </span></b><span
style="font-size: 9pt;">Prof. Christopher Innes, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> Research Chair, 125 Winters
College, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">York</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span
style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>– <span style=""> </span>Tel.
(416) 736-5142 </span></p>
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