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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">ON BEHALF of Prof. Peter M. Boenisch and Dr. Margherita Laera<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Performing Multilingualism in Europe & Beyond: Migration, Globalisation, Utopia</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">A One-Day Conference</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">University of Kent, School of Arts</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Jarman Building, Canterbury, UK</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">13 September 2019, 9:30-6pm</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Keynote Speaker:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">With the participation of:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Gintersdorfer / Klassen, <a href="http://www.gintersdorferklassen.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://www.gintersdorferklassen.org</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin, <a href="https://gorki.de/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://gorki.de</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">In an increasingly inter-connected world characterised by flows of people, goods and capital, multilingualism has become a feature in many
social environments, highlighting the importance of translation in human communication. Whether enforced by financial waves, mass movement, tourism, education systems or colonialism, speaking multiple languages has become a feature of increasing importance
in our societies. How do theatre and performance makers deal with multilingualism?</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">In the UK, the population is made up of 13.5% foreign-born and 8.9% non-British citizens (Migration Observatory, 2015). Still, multilingual
theatre and performance in the UK is rare and mostly confined to the fringe theatre sector. Experiments such as those by Nina Raine (<i>Tribes</i>, 2010), Simon Stephens (<i>Three Kingdoms</i>, 2012) and Katie Mitchell (<i>The Forbidden Zone</i>, 2014) remain
few and far between.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Elsewhere, particularly in continental Europe, Canada and Asia, the genre of multilingual theatre has gained new currency in the context
of globalization, international mobility and movements of migration. Practitioners like Luk Perceval, Jan Lauwers, Anestis Azas, Michel Tremblay, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Robert Lepage, Lola Arias, Angélica Liddell, Fausto Paravidino, Ong Keng Sen, Robert Wilson
and others have experimented with multilingualism. Under the artistic directorship of Milo Rau, National Theatre Ghent’s 2018 manifesto proposed ten commandments for a ‘theatre of the future’, where number six prescribes that at least two languages must be
spoken in any given production. A number of theatres, such as the Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin, have integrated refugee theatre artists from Syria, Palestine and elsewhere, into their ensembles, allowing multiple languages to interweave in performance. In the
work of these artists, multilingualism can perform both ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, and signify both utopian and dystopian worlds.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Meanwhile, scholarship on multilingual theatre has been intensifying in recent years, but the field is still very much under-researched.
Marvin Carlson’s <i>Speaking in Tongues</i> (2009) prompted colleagues to think about these practices, their histories and development in contemporary theatre. Since then, special issues of <i>Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series. Themes in Translation Studies</i> (2014)
on multilingualism in film, theatre and opera, and the special issue of <i>Modern Drama</i> (61.3, 2018) on multilingual theatre in major world cities have advanced the horizons. Linguistic diversity in the arts and everyday life is the focus of ‘Creative
Multilingualism’ (<a href="http://www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">www.creativeml.ox.ac.uk</span></a>), a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-sponsored research project based at the University of Oxford, part of Open
World Research Initiative. ‘Creative Multilingualism’ has co-founded this conference and the research project of which it is part, headed by Prof. Peter Boenisch (co-I, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, and Aarhus University, Denmark) and Dr
Margherita Laera (PI, University of Kent, UK).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">This conference seeks to stimulate an exchange between UK theatre makers and theatre artists from overseas, who engage with multilingual
performance practices in the field of theatre dramaturgy, playwriting and performance-making. Our objective is to begin to chart the ‘state of the art’ of both advanced creative practice and academic discourses on multilingual theatre, and to map out core
issues and problems for future research. We are interested in hearing the perspectives of artists, scholars and audiences alike.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Topics may include, but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism in rehearsals</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and performers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and dramaturgy</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and audiences</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Classifications and new trends of multilingual performance</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and ideology</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and migration</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and post-colonialism</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">– Multilingualism and/as Utopia/Dystopia</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We invite the submission of 300-word proposals for 20-minute papers by 6 May 2019.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Please send your proposals to: <a href="mailto:performingmultilingualism@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">performingmultilingualism@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We look forward to hearing from you,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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