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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">The Graduate Program in Theatre & Performance Studies (York University)</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">Centre for Imaginative Ethnography (CIE)
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">2021 CIE Symposium and Graduate Conference</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">Imagining Differently: </span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">Research-Creation Practices in Urgent Times</span></b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">
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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">Dr. Natalie Loveless</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#201f1e">Friday, March 26, 12 p.m. EDT
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#050505">A conference co-presented by York University's Graduate Program in Theatre and Performance, The Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, and
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#050505">Conference contributors consider research-creation as a method in theatre and performance studies to address the urgency and uncertainty
 of our current times. Our political, economic and environmental futures are becoming increasingly uncertain. Over two-days of panel discussions, performances and a keynote talk, we will explore what it means to do research-creation today and in the future. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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