<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4">** apologies for cross-posting **</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4">CATR/ACRT 2014</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4">Canadian Association for Theatre Research/Association Canadienne de la Recherche Théâtrale</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4">Call for submissions to conference, 24-27 May 2014, Brock University</font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" size="4"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span lang="FR"><b><u><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS</font></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Roundtable session title: <b>Thinking and Writing about Contemporary Circus</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span lang="FR">Session organizers: </span>Karen Fricker (Brock University) and Louis Patrick Leroux (Concordia University) </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><span lang="FR">Formally and aesthetically innovative circus practices are burgeoning worldwide in our times, with Québec one of the global hubs of contemporary circus creation, production, and touring. New scholarship on circus, in turn, is emergent: in 2011 the circus research community in France convened a first international circus studies conference, several important American volumes (by Susan Weber and Matthew Whitman) appeared in 2012, and influential French-language journals including </span><i><span lang="FR">L’Annuaire théâtral</span></i><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span lang="FR">, <i>J</i></span></span><i><span lang="FR">eu</span></i><span lang="FR">, <i>Globe</i>, and <i>Spirale</i> have published special issues on Québec circus. The Montréal Working Group on Circus Research, with which both panel organizers are associated (Leroux as founding director, Fricker as co-founder), hosted an international conference in 2012 and runs 4-6 seminars and roundtables every academic year; McGill/Queens University Press is considering <i>Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries</i>, a reader co-edited by Leroux and Charles Batson, which will include many chapters and transcripts that had their origins in Montréal Working Group activities.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">This roundtable session seeks to take stock of scholarly, performance-critical, and creative activity around circus across Canada, and to bring Québec circus researchers into dialogue with their Canadian counterparts. The co-conveners will offer position papers followed by dialogue and exchange.<span> </span>We welcome colleagues working on and interested in the aesthetics, ethics, business practices, pedagogical implications, and discursive significations of contemporary circus. While particularly interested in information and exchange abou<a name="_GoBack"></a>t Canadian circus outside of Québec, colleagues working on Québécois and international circus practices are also welcome. The session will focus on articulating and exploring the particularities of circus research, and its relationship to theatre and performance studies; it will ask how we as performance scholars can best use our skills and experience in approaching, analysing, and writing about contemporary circus.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Please send a 200-<span> </span>to 250-word statement of interest in the session along with a 250-word biographical note to Karen Fricker (<a href="mailto:kfricker@brocku.ca">kfricker@brocku.ca</a>) and Louis Patrick Leroux (<a href="mailto:patrick.leroux@concordia.ca">patrick.leroux@concordia.ca</a>) by 13 January 2014.</font></b></p><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><b>Link to CATR website and CFP: </b><a href="http://catracrt.ca/conference/">http://catracrt.ca/conference/</a></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><br></div></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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