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<b>Call for Seminar Participants - Canadian Association for Theatre
Research Conference, Waterloo, May 26-29, 2012<br>
<br>
Performing Alternative Globalization<br>
Conveners: Barry Freeman & Catherine Graham<br>
Deadline: January 15, 2012<br>
<br>
</b>Globalization—the acceleration of economic and cultural flows
and an attendant rise in global consciousness—is hardly new, but
most historians and economists agree that it has entered an
aggressive new phase. Some of globalization’s many critics have
imagined alternatives to it; the alterglobalization movement,
so-named by Belgian activist Arnaud Zacharie, envisions both other
and alternative globalizations. <br>
<br>
Our seminar will examine some of the ways that Canadian theatre and
performance artists are creating alternative visions of/in creative
networks. The theatrical sites and practices discussed may establish
horizontal networks of international collaboration, may work to make
the flows of globalization visible, or may confront audiences with
the far reaching ethical implications of their lifestyles, choices,
or spectatorship. Taking alter to point to alternative methods of
practice, we are particularly interested in how Canadian artists are
influencing or are being influenced by performances from other
regions of the <br>
world as they work to evade and defy restrictive traditional or
market-based circuits of cultural production and consumption. <br>
<br>
Possible topics include:<br>
<br>
- Activist parody or ‘culture jamming’<br>
- Indigenous conceptions of globality, community, territory or
resources<br>
- The ‘glocal’ interface between community contexts and global
forces<br>
- Performative reclamations of public/ancestral territory and space<br>
- Theatre for development or NGOs deploying applied theatre<br>
- Anti-consumerist/capitalist/corporate performance<br>
- International theatrical collaborations<br>
- Women’s rights and human rights in global context<br>
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Participants in the seminar will circulate their papers to one
another in advance of the conference and participate in a discussion
online. The discussion at the conference will zero in on issues
arising and will program time for auditors to ask questions.
Interested participants are asked to submit a 250-word abstract of
their paper to Barry Freeman (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:barry.freeman@utoronto.ca">barry.freeman@utoronto.ca</a>) and
Catherine Graham (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:grahamca@mcmaster.ca">grahamca@mcmaster.ca</a>) by <b>January 15, 2012</b>.
Participants will be notified of their acceptance by January 30,
2012, and will be expected to circulate their 2500-3000 word papers
to the group by May 11, 2012<b>.<br>
<br>
</b>-- <br>
Barry Freeman, PhD<br>
Assistant Professor ~ Theatre and Performance Studies<br>
University of Toronto Scarborough & Graduate Centre for Study of
Drama<br>
Executive Editor, <a
href="http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC">Theatre Research
in Canada</a><br>
Associate Editor, <a
href="http://www.utpjournals.com/Canadian-Theatre-Review.html">Canadian
Theatre Review</a><br>
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:barry.freeman@utoronto.ca">barry.freeman@utoronto.ca</a><br>
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