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<pre>Please Circulate (and see attached flyer for more information)
Call For Papers:
Latina/o Focus Group
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference
July 30-August 2, 2015 , Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel
Montréal Quebec
Submission Deadlines:
Individual papers/proposals: October 17th
Please submit to Jimmy Noriega at jnoriega@wooster.edu
Complete panels/proposals: November 1st
Please submit to ATHE at www.athe.org
For more information about procedures or to communicate with LFG members, please visit our site:
http://www.athe.org/group/LFG
ATHE 2015—“Je Me Souviens”: I Remember
The Latina/o Focus Group (LFG) of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) invites proposals for the 2015 ATHE conference to be held in Montreal, Canada. The theme, “Je me souviens (I Remember),” as an organizing idea seizes the city of Montreal’s terse but vivid motto in an effort to convene a conference that embraces the ideas and multiple possibilities ascribed to and forged within conversations investigating memory. The LFG concurs that there are productive provocations in this theme and seeks proposals that rigorously and creatively engage the subject of memory and its many facets. As Latina playwright Cherríe Moraga notes, “it is through art that cultural memory is transmitted. Our storytellers are the memory-carriers.” As just one example, Moraga’s incisive thinking identifies the distinct and powerful role memory plays in U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and indigenous populations and, as such, the powerful and enduring role it plays in these populations’ cultural expressions. The subject of memory (and, consequently, forgetting) saturates U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and indigenous performance and scholarly projects.
The LFG invites theoretical, critical, or creative/practice-based session proposals and will give special attention and consideration to submissions that:
● Propose innovative investigations of the intersections (in terms of both form of session and content of session) between memory and performance that concern U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and indigenous populations and their cultural productions.
● Convene conversations/sessions that propose discussions that adamantly seek to crosspollinate the conversation among U.S. Latina/o, Latin American, and indigenous performance topics, objects of study, and theoretical ideas.
● Offer panels/sessions that are multidisciplinary in nature: that utilize session participants from diverse ATHE Focus Groups or offer panels comprised of participants from separate institutions.
● Offer panels/sessions with no more than four participants (not including a session Chair, which would constitute the fifth person on the panel). Panel/session proposals with no more than four scheduled participants will be given leading priority for selection.
● Offer practice-based/creative ideas that engage the topic of memory directly.
● Incorporate vibrant and non-traditional methodological approaches to paper presentations and creative/practice-based approaches to conference presentations/discussions.
As mentioned at the 2014 membership meeting, participation by presenters in the LFG has grown tremendously. Therefore, selecting from our many submissions becomes a challenging process for conference planners as the process becomes more competitive. As our membership grows we cannot guarantee that panels (and single paper submissions) will be accepted.
With limited spacing available, we offer the following advice to help you plan your submissions:
● Make sure your session is in compliance with submission instructions (see LFG ATHE website for further information). Do not leave details out of your proposal since this may affect your submission’s ranking. Also, be specific in your paper abstracts and panel descriptions.
● Offer full, cohesive panel sessions of paper presentations (as opposed to individuals offering single paper submissions for consideration). Single paper submissions will not necessarily be able to find a secure position in this year’s LFG conference selections.
● We strongly encourage potential participants to have conversations for forming panels and finding possible panel participants with both Irma Mayorga, LFG Representative (historia34@yahoo.com), and Jimmy Noriega, LFG Conference Planner, (jnoriega@wooster.edu) early in the process.
● We also encourage potential participants to participate in the dialogue and seek collaboration using the LFG ATHE blog site: http://www.athe.org/group/LFG
Thank you,
Jimmy Noriega
LFG Conference Planner
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Jimmy A. Noriega, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre and Dance
The College of Wooster
303 E. University Street
Wooster, OH 44691
(330) 263-2305
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