<div dir="ltr">Please find attached and below a call for papers and artistic works for an upcoming conference at the University of Toronto: FOOT 2015: Queer(ing) Performance.<div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div><br>
</div><div>Laine Zisman Newman</div>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:22pt;text-align:center;line-height:19.5px"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:27.999998092651367px;font-family:Times">Call for Papers, Performances and Artistic Works</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:27.999998092651367px;font-family:Times"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:22pt;text-align:center;line-height:19.5px"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:27.999998092651367px;font-family:Times">Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)</span><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:27.999998092651367px;font-family:Times"></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin-bottom:22pt;text-align:center;line-height:19.5px"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:27.999998092651367px;font-family:Times"><b>February 5-7, 2015</b></span></p><p style="margin-bottom:22pt;line-height:19.5px">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">The
23^rd annual Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) invites proposals to
our 2015 conference: <i>Queer(ing)
Performance</i>. Considering the performance of everyday life, as well as the staged,
digital, and imagined, FOOT 2015 subverts rigid disciplinary boundaries between
scholarship, practice and politics. This year’s conference not only welcomes
papers on queer productions, but also work that engages queers methodologies. We
invite proposals from activists, academics and artists who question, contest
and revolt against scholarly and theatrical norms. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Acknowledging
the ways in which queer theory, alongside many traditional theatre approaches,
has privileged white able-bodied, cisgender male subjects, FOOT 2015: Queer(ing)
Performance opens up the conversation to consider the multiple intersecting
experiences and practices of a range of marginalized populations. FOOT 2015
questions broad applications of queer methodologies to performance through
diverse conversations on postcolonialism, crip studies, critical race theory
and feminisms.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">FOOT
2015 invites proposals for presentations of papers, workshops, readings and
performances from scholars, activist and artists in the following areas:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"></p><ul><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">

</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Queer(ing)
normative LGBT Theatre and Performance</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Queering
conceptions of spatiality & temporality in performance</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)"><span><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Confronting
Scriptocentrism: Oral history, storytelling and spoken word</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Activism,
social justice, and grass-roots performance</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Queer
indigenous studies and performance</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Trans
politics and identities onstage and/or in everyday life</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Regulation
and Policing of Nonnormative performance</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Manifestations
of a turn towards the wild on stage</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Drag,
Burlesque and Cabaret</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Queering
Nostalgia, Memory and Theatre History</span></p><p></p></li><li><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important">
</p><p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt;display:inline!important"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Performing
Queer/Feminist ideologies in everyday life</span></p><p></p></li></ul><p></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Recognizing
the inextricable link between performance scholarship and artistic creation,
FOOT 2015 provides an outlet for diverse voices to contribute to discussions on
performance studies and theatre creation from a queer standpoint. As queer(ing)
theatre necessitates an open and flexible understanding of the field of
performance, we welcome nontraditional proposals and formats for papers, film screenings
and performances.</span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Application Deadline: </span><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:blue">September 15, 2014</span></b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)"></span></p>



<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:rgb(38,38,38)">Please send a 300-word abstract or description of your artistic
work, as well as a short bio to:<span>  </span></span><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times;color:blue"><a href="mailto:foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca" target="_blank">foot.graddrama@utoronto.ca</a></span><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:12.5pt"> </span></b></p>


<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:23pt;margin-left:7.1pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Times">For more information check out our website: </span><a href="http://Foot2015.wordpress.com" target="_blank" style="font-family:Times;font-size:12.5pt">Foot2015.wordpress.com</a></b></p>






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