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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">Mediating Performance Experiences:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">Cultures and Technologies in Conversation</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">Department of Theatre
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">Studies in Migration, Interdisciplinary Research Group
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">University of Ottawa</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">APRIL 25 – 27, 2019</span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#212121">Call for Papers</span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Theatre and performance arts remains one of the primary public venues to discuss the power and the faults of technological mediation. This conference aims to provide a framework for interpreting new levels of meaning
generated by evolving technologies in performance, especially amongst interdisciplinary and cultural communities.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">The second focus point of this gathering will be investigating the place of technological, performative and language based mediations between people and the state, specifically in the situations of asylum seekers, refugee
claimants, and other forms of personal interactions with authorities. </span></p>
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<b style=""><span style="">Our featured guests include Sarah Bay-Cheng, George Seremba, Nicole Nolette, Katharina Pewny, Joel Beddows,
</span><span lang="EN-US">Anne-Marie Ouellet, </span></b><b style=""><span style="">Art Babayants and SpiderWeb Show collective: </span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">Participants are invited to examine questions of translation, performance mediation, use of technology, and media influence as manifested historically, conceptually and practically in theatre and cultural performances.
</span><span lang="EN-US">Possible topics of inquiry include:<span style=""> </span>
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<li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">philosophical and ethical conceptualizing of performance mediation and use of technology;
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">language, mediation, and performance;
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">technological mediation in governmental laws and political discourses;
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">migration, mediation and urban space: communal living in the past and in the age of mobility;
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">politics of mediation in social media and everyday life;
</span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">performance technology and education
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition to these topics and specifically in the context of the Canadian state, the organizing committee will be curating academic panels and performative events dedicated to public and artistic discourses
related to the history and current practices of multilingualism in Canada. </span>
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<b style=""><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red">The EXTENDED deadline is December
<span style="">15, 2018. </span></span></b></p>
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<b style=""><span style="color:black">All applicants will be notified by the selection committee by January 5, 2019</span></b><span style="color:black">.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><span class="x_MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Selected contributors will be invited to submit their presentations for publication, scheduled to appear in 2021.
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<span style="color:#212121">Please, send proposals (200 words) for </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#212121">individual papers (20 min) and inquiries to</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US">Dr. Peter Kuling (pjk@uottawa.ca</span><span style="font-size:12pt">) and Dr. Yana Meerzon (</span><span class="x_MsoHyperlink" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uottawa.ca" id="LPlnk22036" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">ymeerzon@uottawa.ca</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt">).</span></p>
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