<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi once more all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best!</div><div>Kim</div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">ATHE 2009 Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">“Performance and the Global City”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Convened by D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, and Kim
Solga</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">To celebrate the summer 2009 launch of our new
essay collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Performance and the
City</i> (Palgrave), and in preparation for a possible second volume, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Performance and the City: Global Stages</i>,
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?</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Specific topics to be addressed may include (but
not be limited to):</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• performance, the urban, and mobility
studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• border studies<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• east asian urban development<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• utopian architectures in “third world” global
cities<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• performance and the Mediterranean city, past and
present<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• traditional performances in contemporary urban
contexts<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• indigenous peoples and the urban (in both
Western and non-Western city spaces)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• architecture and design for refugee communities<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">• the civic impact of civil and global war</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Please send <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">250-word
abstracts, a 50-word bio, and your contact information</b> to: <a href="mailto:dhopkins@mail.sdsu.edu">dhopkins@mail.sdsu.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:morr@mail.sdsu.edu">morr@mail.sdsu.edu</a>; and <a href="mailto:ksolga@uwo.ca">ksolga@uwo.ca</a> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">NO LATER THAN 24 OCTOBER 2008.</b> Successful participants will be
notified by 31 October 2008.<o:p></o:p></p>
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