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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We hope everyone is either enjoying or gearing up to enjoy a productive semester.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are reaching out with a reminder about our CFP, which now has an
<b>extended deadline </b>of <b>February 15. </b>We’ve heard from many of you that you needed more time, so we’re happy to oblige.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">See the details below and attached, and please do not hesitate to reach out any time,</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CUNY Theatre and Performance Conference Committee</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Negotiating Quotidian: Performing the Everyday</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Wednesday, April 28 — Thursday, April 29 </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">DTSA Graduate Student Virtual Conference</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance , The Graduate Center, CUNY</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2021</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce the call for the annual Doctoral Theatre Students Association Graduate Student Conference.</span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Both the creation and study of theatre and performance are built on the fluid boundary between the ordinary and extraordinary. Especially in our current moment,
the overlap between the prosaic and the profound has become obscured through both the work we fashion as theatre artists and study as scholars. “Negotiating Quotidian: Performing the Everyday” is a virtual conference that seeks to interrogate the concept
of the quotidian and the everyday, both their limitations and potentials. This conference aims to discuss and exchange understandings of performance phenomena or objects that could be termed “quotidian”—phenomena which interact with banality and gain prominence
through performative repetition—or “everydayness.” </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We seek scholarly and/or artistic work that enforces, problematizes, celebrates or expands these concepts. Some of the key questions we seek to explore by means
of “Negotiating Quotidian” include: <b>What are the theoretical and methodological opportunities and challenges posed by adopting the metric of the “everyday?” What assumptions are contingent in our valorization of the exemplary (at the expense of the “everyday”)?
How does the focus on the quotidian help to widen our perspective into the performance of the Anthropocene (meaning our plants, our animals, our objects)? How does an awareness of the everyday as an epistemological shift expand our understanding of what performance
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We invite
<b>15-20 minute</b> presentations in diverse formats—scholarly papers, artistic performances, group/panel discussions, or more—that interrogate these or related questions. We hope to honor the broadness of our theme with equally diverse styles of presentation
considering questions which may address but are not limited to the following topics and research areas: </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the performance context of configuring daily activity <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">unique values of amateurism as a significant mode of expression<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">vernacular expression as celebration of communal or individual identity<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the work of theatre-makers that explores or complicates our understanding of what constitutes “everyday activity”<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the concept of the everyday as understood in its historical, political, revolutionary connotations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">theatre and performance that eliminates or stretches its boundaries to include the everyday lives of its practitioners or audience<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the concept of the “commoner” or the “commons,” and the social ramifications of such constructs<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the centrality of everyday concerns (working or childcare schedules, economic limitations, etc.) on artistic work and scholarship<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the social, cultural, political, economic, and material dimensions of everyday existence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the framing of quotidian events and ideologies as possessing significant semiotic value<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the phenomenology of day-to-day existence<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">theories of the quotidian, whether in economic or cultural terms<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the transformation of everyday activity into the realm of ritual <o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the queering potential of performance to craft psychogeographies from otherwise recognizable landscape<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the intersection of online and material space in determining the lives and (non)movements of individuals and communities<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the centrality of non-anthropocentric (meaning our plants, our animals, our objects, viruses and environmental phenomenon) performance in constituting the parameters of our everyday lives<o:p></o:p></span></li><li style="color:black;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-variant-east-asian: normal;font-variant-position: normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the value of seeking healing and regeneration through the performance of our quotidian selves whether for oneself or audiences<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The conference invites other definitions of the concept, believing its very broadness should be part of the scholarly interrogation. </span><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:dtsaconference2021@gmail.com">dtsaconference2021@gmail.com</a><b> by no later than FEBRUARY 15, 2021. Submissions should include your name, paper or project title, email,
a short bio (no more than 150 words), and institutional/departmental affiliation (if any). Participants will be notified in late February 2021.
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