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Performance, War, and Displacement</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Seminar at the 2016 conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre
Research in Calgary, AB from May 28-31 2016.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Coordinators: Dr. Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta (University of Victoria), Matt Jones (University of Toronto)</p><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">“<i>Of course</i>,<i> I was a refugee once and one doesn’t easily
forget something like that</i>,” an elderly German woman told a TV news
correspondent recently as she and hundreds of others waited to welcome incoming
refugees to Munich. This performance of solidarity reminds us how recently the
settled communities of Europe were themselves sites of displacement. As borders
have been climbed over, torn down, tunnelled through, and sailed across,
governments have turned to more military means to police them. At the same
time, borders are increasingly irrelevant to insurgent fighters and drone
aircraft alike. The border may no longer be a clear marker of where conflicts
begin and end but they continue to draw violent lines between populations
caught on either side of them.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">What does this massive movement of populations across national and
continental borders mean for performance? What kind of theatre do we see
emerging in the midst of conflict and displacement? What happens to performance
traditions as they travel across these borders? How does performance continue
to link communities that are scattered by conflict? And as borders are
increasingly ignored, how, as Yana Meerzon argues (2012), might the experience
of exile also be liberatory, opening up new opportunities for creativity?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">We invite papers that examine the role of performance in relation to
conflict and displacement. Papers could respond to the following themes, or
others:</p>
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</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Theatre in conflict zones, refugee camps, and
other sites of displacement</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Interculturalism and interweaving performance
cultures</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Racism and anti-refugee xenophobia</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Performances of solidarity</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Humanitarianism and imperialism</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The current refugee crisis and the spectre of
history</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Deterritorialization and liberation</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Terror and performance</span><br><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77);display:inline"></div>-</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The security state, surveillance, and
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Please send an abstract of 250-300 words and a short bio by January 15,
2016 to <a href="mailto:ksadeghi@uvic.ca">ksadeghi@uvic.ca</a><span style="color:black"> and </span><a href="mailto:mf.jones@mail.utoronto.ca">mf.jones@mail.utoronto.ca</a>.
A maximum of ten papers will be selected.<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">Participants will be asked to submit a draft of 10-15 pages by May 1.
Papers will then be exchanged and participants will write a one-page analysis
of one other paper, including a number of questions for the author. The seminar
will function as a workshop, serving to develop the papers further, link them
to current scholarship, and discover common ground between them.</p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77);display:inline"></div><br></span></span></div></div></div>
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