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<p class=MsoNormal>The leaders of Seminar 1: Women and Science in Performance
have offered to extend the deadline for submissions to participate in this CATR
conference seminar. The new deadline for submissions is December 15<sup>th</sup>.
Details are appended below and in the pdf attachment. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please contact Jenn Stephenson (<a
href="mailto:jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca">jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca</a>) or the
seminar leaders Lourdes Arcinega and James Lange (emails below) if you have any
questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Seminar 1: Women and Science in Performance<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.5in'>Lourdes Arciniega
(University of Calgary) and James Lange (University of Calgary)<b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Abstract<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Over
the years countless plays have used science to rationalize patriarchal
ideologies and the staging of women as ‘naturally’ compassionate,
nurturing, emotional, weak, and subordinate. Because of this, feminists have
traditionally been suspicious of any recourse to the question of science,
particularly the biological and medical sciences. However, recent feminist
theorists, such as Elizabeth Grosz and Donna Haraway, have called for a
reevaluation of the ways that science has been, is being, and can be deployed
to critique conventional “relations of domination and subordination
between races and sexes” (Grosz 33). Responding to this challenge,
theatre scholars have begun to look back to historical plays and performances
to develop a more nuanced understanding of the ways that science has been
molded to align with the ever-changing roles of women in society. Likewise,
contemporary playwrights and performers have deployed science in their own work
explicitly to critique traditional patriarchal ideologies and redefine gender
identity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For
this seminar we welcome papers concerning the general topic of women and
science in performance. We are particularly interested in papers that examine
how science is deployed by twentieth-century playwrights and performers in
their representations of women, femininity, mothers and motherhood,
women’s “nature,” fertility, reproduction, and relations
between men and women. We also welcome papers that expand on current Feminist
Science Studies, including the challenges of multi-disciplinary research.
Keeping in mind the conference theme of “Interconnected knowledge,”
we are interested in ways that plays or performances participate in the
dissemination and debate of scientific theories that explicitly concern women
and “women’s issues.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Questions<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>To what ends have feminist playwrights and performers
deployed science in their work?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>How have theories of evolution been used in the
representations of women?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>How have plays or performances either questioned or
supported traditional scientific thinking about “women’s
nature”?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>How do artificial reproduction technologies impact the
performance of the female in contemporary drama?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span><![endif]>How is the perception of “motherhood”
affected by new reproductive technologies?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b>Working Plan<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'>Interested participants are asked
to submit 250-word abstracts to Lourdes Arciniega (<a
href="mailto:mlarcini@ucalgary.ca"><span style='color:windowtext'>mlarcini@ucalgary.ca</span></a>)
and/or James Lange (<a href="mailto:jlange@ucalgary.ca"><span style='color:
windowtext'>jlange@ucalgary.ca</span></a>) by December 1, 2009. The seminar
leaders will choose ten participants who will be notified of their acceptance
by January 20, 2010. Seminar participants will then be asked to submit an 8-10
page paper on a topic relevant to the discussion by March 22, 2010. The seminar
leaders will also submit papers. The papers will be posted on a wetpaint.com
webpage designed specifically for this seminar. Participants will be required
to familiarize themselves with the other participants’ papers prior to
the conference, and all will be invited to use the wetpaint.com site to comment
on individual papers, discuss issues and topics arising from the papers, and
propose topics for discussion at the conference. The seminar leaders will
prioritize and distribute topics for discussion two weeks prior to the
conference. At the conference itself the seminar will be organized as a
roundtable and we will discuss and debate the topics and issues that emanate
from the papers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Jenn Stephenson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Associate
Professor, Drama<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Queen's
University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Kingston,
Ontario K7L 3N6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Phone.
(613)533-6000 x78597<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Email. <a
href="mailto:jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca"><span style='color:blue'>jenn.stephenson@queensu.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Web. <a
href="http://www.queensu.ca/drama/jstephenson"><span style='color:blue'>www.queensu.ca/drama/jstephenson</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:#1F497D'>"There is
no theory that is not a fragment, carefully prepared, of some autobiography"
--Paul Valéry <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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