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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">CALL FOR PROPOSALS:</b></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">PAPERS, INSTALLATIONS, PERFORMANCES, MANIFESTOS, AND WORKSHOPS </b></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Performing the Accidental Archive</b></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">York University Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Student Symposium </div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://yutps.ca/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer;">http://yutps.ca/</a></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Symposium Date: </b>April 17, 2015</div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Location: </b>York University, Toronto, Ontario</div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">*** Deadline for Proposals:</b> January 10, 2015 <b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">***</b></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Performing the Accidental Archive</b>, the fourth annual York University Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Student Symposium, invites submissions for papers, installations, performances, manifestos, and workshops. In recent years, much theatre and performance studies work has been devoted to investigating, critiquing, and expanding upon the embodiments, objects, places, and practices that comprise the archive. <b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Performing the Accidental Archive</b> is a call to further these discussions by imaginatively exploring the places, practices, objects, and events that are archival despite themselves and that point towards the unintended and incidental remains of our everyday lives and actions. The Oxford English Dictionary defines accidental as “not essential to the existence of a thing,” and as something relating to or occurring “by chance, unintentionally, or unexpectedly [...] or produced by accident.” “<b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Accidental Archives</b>” then refers to the non-essential, the contingent, the secondary, the subsidiary places, objects, and actions that are unintentionally archived, or that remain in different, transformed, and stubborn, immutable ways.</div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please see the attached PDF or visit our website for a list of possible areas of inquiry.</div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;">Please respond to this call by submitting your 200-250 word abstract and a 100-word bio to yutpsgsa@gmail.com on or before January 10, 2015.</b> Given the nature of the topic, we strongly encourage submissions that step outside of paper-presentation norms in order to explore concepts of alternative archival practices in both content and form. Standard papers will still be accepted. Please clearly indicate whether you are proposing a paper presentation, performance, manifesto, or workshop, and make sure to include your technical requirements (within reason). </div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px;"></div><div style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Additional information can be found at <a href="http://yutps.ca/" target="_blank" style="line-height: 21.2999992370605px; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: pointer;">http://yutps.ca/</a></div> </div></body>
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