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mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Call for Participants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR)
conference, Fredericton, NB May 28-31, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Seminar B: A Tyranny of Documents: The Further
Adventures of the Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Organizer: Stephen Johnson, University of
Toronto<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Deadline: January 15, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">This is a further consideration of a subject
first explored in panels at the 2006 and 2007 CATR conferences, and now
followed up in a forthcoming volume of <i>Performing Arts Resources </i>(<i>PAR
</i>28), including over forty contributors. Proposals are invited for the
examination and discussion of one document (or an equivalent particular
problem) that has been particularly troublesome in your own historical
research. The emphasis should be on the work of the historian as detective in
the archive, and on the difficult balance sought between respect for
documentary evidence, the need to generate significance from it, and the
natural-but-dangerous tendency to smooth out the rough edges of evidence.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Participants in the seminar will provide a copy
of the document and a statement of the problem experienced with it—the way in
which it has been troublesome, or the problem of research that it represents.
All documents and statements will be posted to a password-protected, secure
website in advance of the conference for viewing by participants and
registrants. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Proposals from graduate students and scholars
early in their careers are particularly encouraged, though seasoned veterans of
the archive wars are more than welcome. The area of research is not
restricted—documents inform all history writing, and what happened earlier
today is history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black">Interested participants are asked to submit a
250-word proposal and short bio to Stephen Johnson at </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:blue"><a href="mailto:stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca">stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca</a>
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">by
January 15, 2011. Copy in the body of the email, please.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black">The organizer welcomes questions from potential participants in
advance of submitting a proposal.</span></p>
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<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; 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: 'Times New Roman'; 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; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Stephen Johnson, Director<br>Graduate Centre for Study of Drama<br>University of Toronto</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">214 College Street, 3rd Floor</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Toronto, Ontario CANADA M5T 2Z9<br><a href="mailto:stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca">stephen.johnson@utoronto.ca</a><br>Centre Website: www.graddrama.utoronto.ca<br><br><br></span></div></div></span></span></div></span></div>
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