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<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="EN-CA">“Theatre and Learning”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="EN-CA">University of Toronto,
Festival of Original Theatre (F.O.O.T)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="EN-CA">February 2 - 5, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><i style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-CA">Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align:
center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style=""
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-CA">The annual
Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) conference, held at the
Graduate
Centre for
the Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, seeks paper
presentation
proposals for its 2012 Conference: “Theatre and Learning.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><b><span lang="EN-CA">FOOT 2012</span></b><span
lang="EN-CA">
will explore the complex relationships between theatre and
learning in
both
theory and practice. This conference will comprise three broad
areas of
exploration:</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent:
0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA">learning
theatre
(e.g.,
learning and teaching theatre skills)</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent:
0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA">learning
through
theatre (e.g.,
Theatre/Drama in Education)</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent:
0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-CA">theatre
plus
learning (e.g.,
Applied Theatre, Theatre for Personal and Social Change)</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span
lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style=""> </span>All
three streams of the festival will include paper presentations,
roundtables,
workshops, and performances, with the latter taking place at
various
sites on
campus and in various theatres in downtown Toronto. We expect
theatre
scholars,
artists, educators and education scholars to be most active
participants at the
festival.</span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-CA">Confirmed Keynote Speakers: <a
href="http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/ctl/Faculty_Staff/Faculty_Profiles/1227/Kathleen_Marie_Gallagher.html"><span
style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Professor
Kathleen Gallagher</span></a> (University of Toronto,
Canada) and <a
href="http://pure.rhul.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/helen-nicholson_078ca3ba-ab42-4ccc-9c58-f745456c1f67.html"><span
style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Professor
Helen Nicholson </span></a>(Royal Holloway University, UK)</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-CA">Possible Panel Topics </span></b><span
style="" lang="EN-CA">might include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; text-indent:
0in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">1)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style=""> </span>Drama as a Way of Knowing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">2)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Pedagogy
and
Theatre and/or Education through Theatre Practice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">3)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Drama
in
Urban Schools<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">4)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Drama
Practices
with Disadvantaged and At-Risk Populations/Communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">5)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Marginalized
Voices
in Theatre, Youth Theatre, and Theatre for Young
Audiences: Urban Aboriginal Youth, Queer Youth, Youth-At-Risk,
Recent
Immigrants, Elderly or Geriatric Voices, Disability Voices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">6)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Theatre
Training
Programs / Methods, and Philosophies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">7)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Cognitive
Science,
Drama, and Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">8)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Applied
Theatre
– Theatre and Urban Community<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">9)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Performance
and
Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">10)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Method
and
Praxis in Theatre Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">11)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Theatre-in-Education
Research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">12)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Theatre
Learning
in Intercultural Perspective<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">13)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Arts
Education
and Theatre for Young Audiences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">14)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Dramatic
Play
and Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><span
style="">15)<span style="font: 7pt "Times New
Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Theatre
and
Second Language Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 35.7pt; text-indent:
-17.85pt;"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-CA">Please
submit
abstracts of 250 words or
less by Friday,<b style=""> September 30, 2011</b>
to Festival Directors Art Babayants and Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
at </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a
href="mailto:foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca"><span style="color:
windowtext; text-decoration: none;">foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca</span></a></span><span
style="" lang="EN-CA">.<span style=""> </span>Please include
your
full name, your email
address, and your affiliation and status (academic or artistic
institution or
independent scholar/artist; student, faculty, or staff).<span
style="">
</span>Please also include a short (75 word)
bio.<span style=""> </span>We will acknowledge the receipt of
every proposal within three days of receiving it.<span style="">
</span>A
separate call for performances and
workshops will also be posted.</span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height:
normal;"><span style="" lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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