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<div dir="ltr"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><div><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; font-family: Times; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">Call for Seminar Participants: Researching Performance For / By/ With Young People
</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; font-size: small; font-family: Times; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; font-size: small; font-family: Times; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">Canadian Association for Theatre Research / Association Canadienne de la Recherche Théâtrale Conference, </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; font-size: small; font-family: Times; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">24-27 May 2014, Brock University</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);"><br></span></i></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: small; text-align: justify; font-family: Times; "><i><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(68, 68, 68);">Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute widely.</span></i></p><br><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" size="2">Child, baby, girl, boy, youth, juvenile, adolescent, young adult, young people are all age-bounded categories, laden with assumptions about who does and does not belong to them. They often suggest a state of becoming and borders to cross on the way to something else – usually adulthood. Those categories profoundly colour the way that artists produce work, institutions engage with young audiences and young performers, and influence the way we as scholars engage with our own research about and with young people within the context of theatre and performance studies.</font></span></span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;font-family:Georgia;"> </span></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; "><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#444444" face="Georgia"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-weight:800;"></span></font></p><br><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; ">Inspired by Catherine Driscoll’s definition of the category “girl” as “an assemblage of social and cultural issues and questions rather than a field of physical facts […]” (2010), this seminar will engage with questions regarding how scholars define young identities in their performance research and ways existing young identity monikers complicate research. For example, iconic figures of girls appearing in popular discourses, such as the early twentieth century Gibson Girl, have been treated, in scholarly research, as the “New Woman” which raises questions about how we identify and understand young people, and how young people perform their identities. Categorizing the <i>girl</i> as a New <i>Woman</i> complicates the related social and political discourses</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">We invite participants to share ways that their own research in performance for/by/with young people, in contemporary or historical contexts, in Canada or elsewhere, is complicated by the very borders of the field, and to consider the ways that those borders influence ideas about topics such as (but certainly not limited to):</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">aesthetic choices in theatre for babies or young people</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">engaging with taboo subjects on stage or in drama classrooms,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">creating and staging young characters,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">performing personal identities,</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">performance projects with children leading “adult” lives (such as teen mothers or young people in refugee camps)</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">constructs of identity in talent shows and beauty contests</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: left;font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">-</span><span style="font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia;">stardom, skill, stamina, remuneration, and training</span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;">In the form of a short (1,500 word) “working paper”, we invite participants to share, a challenge or dilemma related to research and writing about young people and performance. Working papers will be posted to a secure website in advance of the conference for viewing by participants and registrants. We will assign respondents to each, and organize the session as a series of related research questions. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><br></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Tahoma; "><span style="font-family:Georgia;">Our deadline has been extended. Interested participants are asked to submit a 250 – 300 word abstract of their proposed paper topic and a short bio to: Heather Fitzsimmons Frey (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:heatherff@gmail.com"><span style="color:rgb(0, 27, 228);">heatherff@gmail.com</span></a>) or Marlene Mendonca (mendonca@yorku.ca) by February 1, 2014. Participants will circulate their 1,500 word working papers by April 6 to facilitate online discussion prior to the conference. Applications are encouraged from graduate students, scholars early in their careers, and seasoned veterans. The area of research is not restricted to a particular time or place. Explorations of the challenges related to young people and any area of drama, theatre and performance studies, whether amateur or professional, are welcome. </span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></p></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Tahoma" size="2">--</font><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Marlene Mendonça</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">PhD Candidate</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">Theatre and Performance Studies</div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt; ">York University</div></span> </div></div> </div></body>
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