<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>Please post and distribute:</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b>CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">(second call--revised)</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">PERFORMANCE HISTORY WORKING GROUP</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Canadian Association for Theatre Research/ Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale (ACRT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Co-Organziers: Stephen Johnson, Marlis Schweitzer, Sasha Kovacs, Heather Davis-Fisch, Roberta Barker</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Conference: Tuesday 29 May through Friday 1 June 2018 at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Deadline for intent to join: January 15, 2018</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Proposals are invited for members of the Performance History Working Group, which will consider the challenges of performance history as it relates to the ongoing research of participants.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">This inaugural session of the Working Group will explore the relationship between the historian of performance and documentary evidence; but because this is an inaugural meeting, we will focus on recent concerns and significant challenges that participants have experienced, as a means to establish the larger on-going issues the Working Group should explore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">The meeting of this Working Group at CATR/ACRT 2018 in Kingston, Ontario is part of a larger pattern of activity, which includes: the regular communication through an online blog; the active mentorship of emerging scholars; on-line meetings to discuss readings and research questions; local and regional meetings; and a meeting a the annual CATR conference.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial;">To join</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"> this Working Group, please contact <b>Stephen Johnson (<a href="mailto:sjohnson.research@gmail.com"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sjohnson.research@gmail.com</span></a>)</b>. Please include a brief statement of your research interests, and a particular challenge or concern you would like discussed by the Working Group, as we develop our on-line conversations (500 words, more or less). We encourage the participation of graduate students, scholars early in their careers, and seasoned veterans. The area of research is not restricted to a particular time or place.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">We welcome questions in advance of submitting a proposal. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Once membership in the group is confirmed, participants will be asked to contribute to a website in advance of the conference for viewing by participants and registrants. Contributions will be used as the pretexts for our discussion together.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">Note that all participants must be members of CATR. Members who cannot attend the conference are welcome to join. Contact Stephen Johnson with any questions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">See <a href="https://catr2018.wordpress.com">https://catr2018.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><br></div></div></body></html>