<div dir="ltr">Looking forward to Congress and CATR already! Please share this CFP with anyone you think might be interested in this panel.<div><br></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal">Performing Girlhoods and Girlhood Performances </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A Curated Panel proposed by Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
(University of Toronto) and Marlis Schweitzer (York University) </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Girlhood performances are profoundly significant for
communities: they are the focus of moral panics, fairy tale heroines,
schoolyard behaviours, not to mention staged dramas. Catherine Driscoll writes
that the way people see girls is a barometer for how they see the future, but
also how they understand their present and their past. Girl communities however, can operate in ways
that support or counter the larger community in which they exist. Ideas about girls colour the way that artists
make work; ways artistic work is received and consumed, and ways that girls
choose to perform their lives on a daily basis. This panel will present
research concerning how culturally and socially constructed ideas about girls
and girl communities influence, shape, and inform our research, research
agendas, and ways our research is received; it is also interested in how the
way we understand girlhood performances is connected to how we understand
community.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This seminar invites participants to share ways that their
own research concerning performing girlhoods and girlhood performances, in
contemporary or historical contexts, in Canada or elsewhere, relates to the
theme of community. Topics may include
(but are not limited to):</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Young female artists in the performance industry</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Girl cliques, girl clubs, and girl spaces</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Girl communities and girlhood cultural production,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>creating and staging girl characters, </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>performing girlhood identities</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>trans, bi, queer and/or virtual girls’ communities </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>girl focused events: girls’ sports, dance, beauty
contests</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>applied theatre projects or qualitative research with
girls</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">-<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>girlhood diaries</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:18pt"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the form of a 20 minute paper we invite participants to discuss
their research regarding intersections between girlhood, performance and
communities. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interested participants are asked to submit a 250 – 300 word
abstract of their proposed paper topic and a short bio to: Heather Fitzsimmons
Frey (<a href="mailto:heatherff@gmail.com"><span class="">heatherff@gmail.com</span></a>)
and Marlis Schweitzer (<a href="mailto:schweit@yorku.ca">schweit@yorku.ca</a>) by
January 15, 2016. The area of research is not restricted to a particular time
or place. Explorations of the challenges
related to girlhood and any area of dance, drama, theatre and performance
studies, whether amateur or professional, are welcome. </p>
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<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, <span style="font-size:12.8px">PhD</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>NEW BOOK: <b>THEATRE AND LEARNING </b>(edited by Art Babayants and Heather Fitzsimmons Frey) <a href="http://www.cambridgescholars.com/theatre-and-learning" target="_blank">http://www.cambridgescholars.com/theatre-and-learning </a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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