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<p class="">Call for Participants – CATR-CAFS Curated Paper Panel CATR 2014, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario. May 24 -27, 2014</p>
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<p class="">A final reminder that proposals are due January 13. This panel is co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Food Studies (CAFS) concurrent meeting and is in line with their deadlines. Please note that CAFS will also be hosting <i>pecha kucha</i> sessions as well as an exploration gallery. More information can be found in the CAFS CFP attached below. These have separate deadline and submission rules from this call.</p>
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<p class="">Thanks,</p>
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<p class="">Ted</p>
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<p class="">Open Kitchen: Crossing Boundaries with Food and Performance</p>
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<p class="">Food is a “boundary object,” one that both borders and transects much of our lived and academic experience. By occupying thesebetween spaces, food offers opportunities for bridging and/or blurring epistemic and ontological divides, for underscoring the doing/making aspect of research, and for decentering the singular actor in research and performance milieus and refiguring them as diffuse yet interconnected congealments of human and non-human agency.</p>
<p class=""> Food and Performance scholars have long been focused on what Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has called the “conceptual convergence” of the two: doing, behaving, and showing. While the discourse has been rich, it has yet to mature as a legitimate and active sub-field of Performance Studies. This should not be surprising given the deeply rooted and important relationship that Performance Studies bears to modern Theatre Studies. But, as Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has argued, the divide between food consumption and theatrical space is a very modern construction. We ask: How might we trouble these boundaries?</p>
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<p class="">We invite scholarship that highlights some of the ways in which Performance Studies and Food Studies both occupy similar scholarly spaces of thinking-doing, as well as the value that each realm has in interpreting and interrogating the other. How can such work support reconfigurations of power and social or political boundaries? How can the materiality of food and the built environment help us reimagine our relationship with the other? What might performances with and on food reveal about the nature of our individual and collective identities, as Canadians, as eaters, as researchers? This panel offers an opportunity for scholars of any discipline to reimagine the contours of food and performance, not as homogenous and bounded disciplines, but as dynamic constellations of scholarly practices.</p>
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<p class="">Paper proposals should not exceed 250 words and should be emailed to <a href="mailto:ewhittal@yorku.ca"><span class="">ewhittal@yorku.ca</span></a>. Please indicate any audio-visual, or culinary, technology needed for presentations.</p>
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