<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h2 align="center" style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span><font size="4"><font color="#365f91"><font face="Cambria">A Conference at the University of Regina:<span>  </span>February 8-9, 2019<span></span></font></font></font></span></h2><h2 align="center" style="margin:2pt 0cm 0pt;text-align:center"><span><font size="4"><font color="#365f91"><font face="Cambria">Keynote Speaker:<span>  </span>Cherie Dimaline, author of <i>The Marrow Thieves</i> (2017)<span></span></font></font></font></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri"><span>                                </span><span></span></font></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Imaginary and real dystopian worlds occupy an important place in contemporary culture.<span>  </span>Popular television series such as the adaptation of Margaret Atwood's <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> or the Netflix series, <i>The Rain</i>, invite the viewer to imagine humanity <i>in extremis</i>, subject to intense environmental, social or psychological pressures.<span>  </span>Novelists like Cormac McCarthy (<i>The Road</i>) and Omar el Akaad (<i>American War</i>) present post-apocalyptic worlds in which the struggle to survive exposes humanity's frailties as well as its potentialities.<span>  </span>Others, like Naomi Alderman (<i>The Power)</i> imagine worlds in which normative relationships defined by gender, class, or race are turned upside down.<span>  </span>Such works are revealing both of contemporary anxieties and our enduring fascination with what it means to be human.<span>  </span>This call for papers invites proposals for papers, presentations, or performances from all disciplines that reflect upon the relationship between modern Dystopias and the human condition.<span>  </span>Topics may include:<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Feminist Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Urban Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Refugees and Dystopia<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Environmental catastrophe and Dystopia<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Technological and Digital Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Military Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Indigenous Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Capitalist / Consumer Dystopias<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Dystopias, Past, Present and Future / Real and Unreal<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The Dystopian Critique of Language<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">The Dystopian Survivor's Tale<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Communication and the Cryptic in Dystopian worlds<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 54pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span>-<span style="font:7pt "Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">          </span></span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Dystopia and Resistance / Dystopia and the Underground<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Please submit paper proposals (300 words) and a brief CV to <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><a><u><font color="#0000ff">humanities.research@uregina.ca</font></u></a></span>.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Deadline for submission of proposals:<span>  </span>September 30, 2018.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt"><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><span> </span></span></p><div><br><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>Humanities Research Institute<br>3737 Wascana Parkway<br>Regina, SK  S4S 0A2<br><a href="http://www.humanitiesresearch.org">www.humanitiesresearch.org</a></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 15:01, Wes Pearce <<a href="mailto:Wes.Pearce@uregina.ca">Wes.Pearce@uregina.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">



<div style="font:10pt Segoe UI;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><div class="gmail-m_-689993396326664345GroupWiseMessageBody" id="gmail-m_-689993396326664345GroupWiseSection_1537218049000_Wes.Pearce@uregina.ca_157BE690020A0000AFA8B8C7CD5C9417_"><div><div>Friends and colleagues - </div><div><br></div><div>Please find attached the CFP for the Practice/Production Symposium which is a part of the Mid America Theatre Conference being held in Cleveland, Ohio March 7 - 10, 2019.  </div><div>The deadline for abstracts is October 15, 2018.  </div><div><br></div><div>For further information please contact myself (at the address below) and/or Karin Waidley - <span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><a>karinwaidley@gmail.com</a></span></div><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"></span><div><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:107%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Hope to see you in Cleveland (it Rocks there...it's also Hot there).</span></div><br></div><span id="gmail-m_-689993396326664345GWSignatureSent" style="padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom:5px;display:block"><span style="display:block"><br><span style="font-size:10pt;display:inline-block"><div><font face="Arial">Wes D. Pearce, Professor</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Associate Dean (Interdisciplinary Programs and Special Projects)</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance</font></div><div><font face="Arial">University of Regina<br><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial">Adjunct Professor </font></div><div><font face="Arial">School of Fine Arts</font></div><div><font face="Arial">Central China Normal University (Wuhan)</font></div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial"></font> </div></span></span></span><span style="margin-bottom:5px;display:block"><br></span></div></div>
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