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text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Happy New Year, colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">A reminder of the upcoming deadline for our CATR/ACRT roundtable.... </span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13px;">Canadian Association for Theatre
Research/Association Canadienne de la Recherche Théâtrale<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13px;">Call for submissions to conference, 24-27 May
2014, Brock University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span lang="EN-US">CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Roundtable session title: <b>Thinking
and Writing about Contemporary Circus</b></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">Session organizers: Karen Fricker
(Brock University) and Louis Patrick Leroux (Concordia University) </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">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 <i>L’Annuaire
théâtral</i>, <i>Jeu</i>, <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><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-US">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. 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 about 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.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:14.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Please send a
200- 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"><span style="color:windowtext">kfricker@brocku.ca</span></a>) and Louis Patrick
Leroux (<a href="mailto:patrick.leroux@concordia.ca"><span style="color:windowtext">patrick.leroux@concordia.ca</span></a>)
by 13 January 2014.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 13px;">Link to CATR website and CFP: <a href="http://catracrt.ca/conference/"><span style="color:windowtext;font-weight:
normal">http://catracrt.ca/conference/</span></a></span></b></p>
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