<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Please find below a CFP for the curated panel “Verbatim Theatre at the Crossroads of Community: How ‘Real’ Words Bond, Bend, and Break Social Coherence" at the 2016 Canadian Association for Theatre Research in Calgary, AB from May 28-31 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>Please feel free to contact me with any questions. </div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Kelsey</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><b>Kelsey Laine Jacobson</b></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">PhD Student | University of Toronto<br>Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies<br><a href="mailto:jacobson.kelseylaine@gmail.com">jacobson.kelseylaine@gmail.com</a><br>(647) 964 0600<br>kelseylainejacobson.com</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="4"><b>Verbatim Theatre at the Crossroads of
Community: </b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><font size="4"><b>How “Real” Words Bond, Bend, and Break Social Coherence</b><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">Organized by Dr. Kathleen Gallagher, Scott Mealey, and Kelsey Laine Jacobson </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In the wake of a seemingly
resurgent practice in verbatim theatre, one finds enthusiastic explorations of its
authenticity, pedagogy, democratizing capacities, and empathic potential, often
side-by-side with expressions of its unique ethical risks and concerns over appropriate
practices and precautions</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">.
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Several scholars and practitioners, in highlighting such
empathic connections and ethical consequences, seem to evidence both the
powerful positive and negative effects sometimes experienced by the communities
who are formed by, and interact with, verbatim theatre. The aim of this panel is
to bring particular focus to how communities and sub-communities form, adapt,
and change in the creation, presentation, and reception of verbatim theatre situated
within individual classrooms, cultural coalitions, artistic collectives, or research
networks. In particular, three main threads of verbatim theatre and community
will be explored: the social participant in verbatim, the pedagogy of verbatim,
and the research community’s larger relationship with verbatim theatre. Some
potential research questions might include:</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">How does verbatim theatre create
communities and sub-communities? When, where, and for whom are these
communities beneficial? Harmful?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What effects on already extant
communities might verbatim practice have?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What is the place of verbatim theatre
in increasingly globalized, digitized, and fragmented communities? <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">How and to what end does verbatim operate
as an increasingly popular pedagogical impetus in drama curricula?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:
auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">How is creative work and artistic
pedagogy such as verbatim theatre responsive/responsible to the larger research
community?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:54.0pt;mso-add-space:auto;
text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What is the place of the researcher
within verbatim practice i.e. as ethnographer, as witness, as playwright?</span></span></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;">Panelists will be asked to present a
paper of approximately 15 minutes, before engaging in a wider discussion with
the other participants and the attending audience.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">300 word proposals, along with a short
biography, should be sent to Scott Mealey </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="mailto:scott.mealey@mail.utoronto.ca"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">scott.mealey@mail.utoronto.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
and Kelsey Laine Jacobson </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="mailto:k.jacobson@mail.utoronto.ca"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">k.jacobson@mail.utoronto.ca</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: windowtext;">by <b>15 January 2016</b></span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="font-size: 14px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"">.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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