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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Asylum and Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Performing Community,
Crisis and Belonging<br>
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20-21 APRIL 2012, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON<br>
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A two-day conference on performative responses to asylum and displacement. The
vast populations of asylum seekers, refugees and other unauthorised or
irregular migrants represent the vanguard of some of the most pressing
challenges in a globalised world: conflict, crisis, poverty, security, human
rights, environmental degradation and climate change. The conference will
facilitate scholarly and creative exchange, investigating ways in which
performance might witness, respond to and intervene in these challenges.
Performance in this context may include professional and amateur theatre,
community, youth and applied performance, film, protest and activism,
site-specific work, and more broadly, the ‘enactment’ of
citizenship and belonging.<br>
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Supported by the Department of Drama and Theatre, the Centre for International
Theatre and Performance Research (CITPR), and the Humanities and Arts Research
Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway, University of London.<br>
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Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor James Thompson (University of Manchester)
and Assoc. Professor Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University).<br>
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Researchers, artists and other stakeholders are invited to submit 250-word abstracts
for papers or practical presentations in response to any of the following
topics:<br>
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• Applied, participatory and
community performance<br>
• Education and youth theatre<br>
• Verbatim, testimonial or tribunal
theatre<br>
• Intercultural and multilingual
performance<br>
• Cinematic representations of asylum
and displacement<br>
• Protest and activism<br>
• Site-specific performance<br>
• Borders, border-crossings and
territoriality<br>
• Biopower, security, incarceration
and human rights<br>
• Sovereignty, citizenship and
belonging<br>
• Cosmopolitanism, globalisation and
the ethics of hospitality<br>
• Ecology, climate change and
displacement<br>
• Indigeneity and displacement<br>
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Details of additional conference guests and a publication will be announced in
due course.<br>
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Please forward abstracts to the conference organiser by 31 AUGUST 2011: Dr Emma
Cox, Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway: <a
href="mailto:emma.cox@rhul.ac.uk">emma.cox@rhul.ac.uk</a><br>
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Conference registration deadline: 16 DECEMBER 2011<br>
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