<html><head></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the TELUS network.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Jim Al-Shamma <jalshamma@gmail.com></div><div><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, October 9, 2014 8:48 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>athecast@athe.org</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>jalshamma@gmail.com</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[ATHECast] CFP: ATHE 2015: Middle Eastern, Middle-Eastern-American, and Middle-Eastern-Canadian Theatre and Performance</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">**Apologies for cross-postings. Please circulate widely**</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br><i><br></i>Middle Eastern, Middle-Eastern-American, and Middle-Eastern-Canadian Theatre and Performance<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Annual Conference<br></span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">July 30 - August 2, 2015</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Montréal, Québec</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel<br><br><br>We invite papers that broadly address the conference theme of “Je me souviens” as relates to Middle Eastern, Middle-Eastern-American, Middle-Eastern-Canadian, or other Middle Eastern hyphenate, theatre and performance. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">In what ways does Middle Eastern theatre and performance, and its hyphenates, invoke remembering, link past to future, or recall the past in order to lament the present or imagine the future? In what ways does it associate remembrance with place? To quote the conference website, “Issues of country/isolation/assimilation,… as well as acts of revolt/revolution, quiet and otherwise, give rise to consideration of the silences, the unsaid, the gestures, the sub-text, the dangers, the misunderstandings, the non-discursive in the ‘in-between’ terrain between cultures, countries, and constituencies…. Building on this, we can also embrace inter/trans-national and inter/trans-cultural exchanges and performance texts, process, or production.” The rich, complex history of the Middle East and Middle Eastern diaspora provides fertile ground for exploring these issues, as expressed through the theatre of the region and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission Deadline:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> October 24, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To submit a paper for consideration, please submit a document containing: the title of your proposed paper, a 150-200 word abstract, your contact information (including phone and email), your institutional or professional affiliation, and your request for AV needs (if applicable). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>Send your proposal to <b>both </b>of the following:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jim Al-Shamma at </span><a href="mailto:james.alshamma@belmont.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">james.alshamma@belmont.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fatima Madani Sarbarani at </span><a href="mailto:fmadanis@asu.edu"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">fmadanis@asu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jim Al-Shamma, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Assistant Professor of Theatre<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Belmont University</span><o:p></o:p></p></div>
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