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Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association Canadienne de la Recherche Théâtrale </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">24-27 </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:13.5pt">May 2014 </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times-Bold","sans-serif"">To Foreign Shores! Canadian Theatre Makers at Home and Abroad (seminar)</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Participants</b></p>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The seminar </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
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color:windowtext">investigate</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> dramatic and performative renderings of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the dual context of the immigrant theatre artists’ experiences within the country and abroad. It aims to explore the West-East/North-South dichotomies in Canadian theatre, both in English and French, focusing specifically on issues of language, space, spiritual and religious values, and identity. It welcomes contributions searching for interdisciplinary methodological approaches from the fields of sociology and theatre, anthropology and performance studies, art and film history, semiotics, cognitive studies, and theory of literature and drama. <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The auxiliary questions to be addressed are:<o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
mso-fareast-font-family:Wingdings;mso-bidi-font-family:Wingdings">Ø<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">How is the figure of Other envisioned in the works of immigrant theatre artists working in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Canadian artists-expatriates, established Canadian artists, in English and/or French? <o:p></o:p></span></pre>
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<st1:country-region w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region> depicted through the works of recent immigrants, Canadian artists-expatriates; in English and/or French?
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Wingdings;">Ø<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span>How do the experiences of nostalgia, displacement and cultural and linguistic othering mark these works?
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The seminar will accept no more than <b>12 (twelve) papers</b>, no longer <b>than 5000 words each</b>. </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The deadline to receive the proposals (250 words) is </span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext;">January 15, 2014;</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: red;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the due-date for the final papers </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">is <b>March 15, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: red;">. </span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">In March 2014 I will distribute papers among the participants, who will be asked to read and provide feedback on each other’s work; and to devise a list of questions arising from their discussions.</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">The seminar will unfold as a round-table discussion of the major questions raised during the online dialogue. It will finish with the Q-A session including the members of the audience.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></pre>
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<pre><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Send your inquiries and proposals to <a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uottawa.ca" title="mailto:ymeerzon@uottawa.ca
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<div style="font-size: 13px;">Yana Meerzon, Ph.D.</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px;">Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies</div>
<div style="font-size: 13px;">Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa</div>
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Ottawa ON Canada, K1N 6N5<br>
Telephone: <span class="skype_pnh_print_container">613 562-5800</span>, ext. 2243
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<pre><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma;">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uOttawa.ca" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma;">ymeerzon@uOttawa.ca</a></pre>
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