<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><div tabindex="-1" style="color:rgb(51,51,153);font-family:Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px"><div tabindex="-1"><div tabindex="0"><div class="" tabindex="-1"><div tabindex="-1" class=""><div class=""><div><div class="" id="x_Item.MessagePartBody"><div class="" id="x_Item.MessageUniqueBody" tabindex="0" style="outline:none"><div class=""><div dir="ltr"><div id="x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size:10pt"><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><b>REMINDER</b></span><span class=""></span> </p><p class="" style="font-size:13.3333px;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"><span class=""><b> </b></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="" style="font-size:10pt"><b>Scattered Communities: Performance, War and Displacement</b></span><span class="" style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""><span lang="FR">Canadian Association for Theatre Research/Association</span></span><span class=""><span lang="FR"> </span></span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit"></span><span class=""><span lang="FR">candie</span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit">nne</span><span style="background-color:inherit"></span></span><span class=""><span lang="FR"> </span></span><span class=""><span lang="FR">pour la</span></span><span class=""><span lang="FR"> </span></span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit"></span><span class=""><span lang="FR">r</span></span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit">echerche</span><span style="background-color:inherit"></span><span class=""><span lang="FR"> </span></span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit"></span><span class=""><span lang="FR">t</span></span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit">héâtrale</span><span class=""><span lang="FR"> </span></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">May 28-</span>31, 2016 Calgary, Alberta, CANADA <span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">Seminar Coordinators: Dr.</span><span class=""> </span><span class=""></span><span style="background-color:inherit">Kirsten</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">Sadeghi-Yekta</span><span class=""><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span><span class="">(University of Victoria)</span></span><span style="background-color:inherit">,</span><span class=""> </span>Matt Jones (University of Toronto)<span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">“</span><i>Of course</i>,<span class=""><span style="background-color:inherit"><i> </i></span><span class=""><i>I was a refugee once and one doesn’t easily forget something like that</i></span></span><span style="background-color:inherit">,” 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 it was that the settled communities of Europe were sites of displacement. As borders have been climbed over, torn down, tunnelled through, and sailed across, governments have been struggling to police them using more military means. 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.</span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">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</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">Meerzon</span><span class=""><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span><span class="">argues</span></span><span class=""></span><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span><span class="">(2012)</span><span style="background-color:inherit">, might the experience of exile also be</span><span class=""> </span><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit">liberatory</span><span style="background-color:inherit">, opening up new opportunities for creativity?</span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">We invite</span><span class=""></span><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span><span class=""></span><span style="background-color:inherit">papers that examine the role of performance in relation to conflict</span><span class=""></span><span style="background-color:inherit"> </span><span class="">and displacement</span>.</p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class=""> </span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="">Papers could respond to the following themes, or others:</span><span class=""></span> <span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">Theatre in conflict zones, refugee camps, and other sites of displacement</span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-bottom-color:transparent;background-color:inherit"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">Interculturalism</span></span><span style="background-color:inherit">, identity, and interweaving performance cultures </span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">Racism and anti-refugee xenophobia </span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">Performances of solidarity</span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">Humanitarianism and imperialism</span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-indent:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">                     </span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span class="">The current refugee crisis and the spectre of history </span><span class=""> </span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:'Segoe UI',sans-serif"></span></p><p class="" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;text-ind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