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<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></p></span></span></span></div><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">(with apologies for cross posting)<br>Please share with colleagues and students:<br><br>The 30th Annual<br>Mid-America Theatre Conference<br>Hyatt Regency Chicago<br>March 5-8, 2009<br><br>POOR THEATRE?<br><br>The Mid-America Theatre Conference invites scholarly inquiries/investigations in the areas of Acting and Directing, Pedagogy, Playwriting, and Theatre History that can be linked to the notion of “Poor Theatre,” broadly construed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>In the 1960s, Jerzy Grotowski’s Polish Laboratory Theatre leveled a set of challenges at the theory and practice of theatre in the face of the shifting aesthetic, political, and economic landscapes of art in the twentieth century. For the thirtieth-annual MATC conference we seek to put a finger on current and emerging challenges to contemporary art and scholarship of theatre:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>What are the difficulties of producing and teaching theatre in times of economic hardship? As formerly-rigid boundaries between high-brow and low-brow taste increasingly give way to irony and pastiche, with what criteria do we judge whether a work is good or poor in quality or achievement? With the advent of new pedagogical paradigms increasingly targeted toward learning styles and dispositions, who is to say what is good or poor teaching? And with the dark economic forecasts for the national/global economy, what is the state/fate of our University theatre programs? Our research? Academic Theatre?<br><br>Go to the MATC website <a href="http://www.wiu.edu/matc/">http://www.wiu.edu/matc/</a> for Calls for Papers:<br><br>Acting & Directing Symposium<br>Pedagogy Symposium<br>Playwriting Symposium<br>Theatre History Symposium<br>Emerging Scholars Panels<br>Articles-In-Progress Workshop<br><br>Submission deadlines Oct 15<br><br></span></blockquote></div><br><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ann Haugo</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Assistant Professor</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">School of Theatre</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Campus Box 5700</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Illinois State University</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Normal IL 61790</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">(309) 438-3955</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Webdings" size="6" color="#117e00" style="font: normal normal normal 26px/normal Webdings; color: rgb(17, 126, 0); ">P </font><font face="Arial" size="3" color="#0e6500" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; color: rgb(14, 101, 0); "><b>Please consider the environment before printing this email.</b></font></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div></div></body></html>