<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 1"><div class="gmail-section"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column"><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Hi All,</span></font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Please see below calls for roundtable participants, as well as curated panels, for the Theory and Criticism Focus Group at ATHE 2022. </span></font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">With apologies for cross-posting -</span></font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Kelsey</span></font></p><p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Kelsey Jacobson, PhD<br>Theory and Criticism Focus Group Representative<br>Assistant Professor, Queen's University</span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Call for Papers: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic">Theory and Criticism Focus Group—</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">ATHE 2022 Conference
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Rehearsing the Possible: Practicing Reparative Creativity
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Detroit, MI </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Cambria;color:rgb(32,31,30)">| </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">July 28–July 31, 2022</span></div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please send questions to Theory and Criticism Conference Planner:
Abby Schroering (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt">)</span></div></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Submission Deadline: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Sunday, 23 October 2021
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">The Theory and Criticism Focus Group will accept individual 250-word position paper abstracts
for the Tending the Garden Roundtable Series. Submissions should include:
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">1) Abstract (250 words or less)</span></div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">2) Title</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt">3) Contact information (name, institutional affiliation, email address, and phone number)
4) Bio of 50 words or less</span></div></span><p></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Tending the Garden—An Interactive Roundtable Event
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic">Progress is a forward march, drawing other kinds of time into its rhythms. Without that driving
beat, we might notice other temporal patterns. Each living thing remakes the world through
seasonal pulses of growth, lifetime reproductive patterns, and geographies of expansion. Within
a given species, too, there are multiple time-making projects, as organisms enlist each other and
coordinate in making landscapes. [...] The curiosity I advocate follows such multiple
temporalities, revitalizing description and imagination. This is not a simple empiricism, in which
the world invents its own categories. Instead, agnostic about where we are going, we might look
for what has been ignored because it never fit the timeline of progress.</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic;vertical-align:5pt">1
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">In response to the 2022 ATHE conference theme, “Rehearsing the Possible: Practicing
Reparative Creativity,” the Theory and Criticism Focus Group will focus our annual roundtable
series on explorations of “gardening” as scholarly, creative, and pedagogical practice—both
metaphorically and literally. For the “Tending the Garden” roundtable series, we welcome a wide
range of contributions from practitioners, educators, and scholars.
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">This roundtable series will explore gardening as a cyclical, seasonal practice of regeneration and
reciprocity. To plant and tend a garden is a radical act of faith that assumes a future in which
interspecies communities will flourish and actively create that future; it is also a continual
encounter with the past through memories of prior seasons, intergenerational knowledge, and
material encounters with soils, saved seeds, and compost. If theater and performance— and
theory and criticism—is a garden, what does it mean to tend it? How do we believe in and create
a future of mutual flourishing? (As Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us, “all flourishing is mutual”
(20).)</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;vertical-align:5pt">2 </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">How to compost old ideas, frameworks, and materials into a generative bed out of which
something new might grow? How to regard the practice not as a means to a fruitful harvest, but </span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:16px">as an ever-evolving process of growth, change, and care? Following Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s provocation above, how to resist the timeline of progress in favor of alternative worlding and time-making projects, human and non?</span></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;vertical-align:4pt">1</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic">The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, 21.
</span><span style="font-size:6pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;vertical-align:4pt">2 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Robin Wall Kimmerer, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic">Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of
Plants</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, 20.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-page" title="Page 2" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-section"><div class="gmail-layoutArea"><div class="gmail-column">
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">The Theory and Criticism Focus Group seeks position papers from theatre artists,
educators, scholars, activists, philosophers, and critics interested in examining our 2022
Roundtable Series theme, “Tending the Garden.”
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">The roundtables eschew formal paper presentations in favor of short position papers and
provocations designed to encourage interactive critical conversations among panelists and
audience members. Building on our previous roundtable series, we strive to include a diverse
range of participants from graduate students and emerging scholars to professional critics, artists,
educators, and senior scholars.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Position papers can take the form of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">a short essay, a manifesto, an outreach exercise, a critical
review, a theoretical musing, a research report, a creative project, an interview, or an
embodied performance practice</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">How do actors, directors, designers, dramaturgs, and teachers cultivate a future through
engagement with the past? What pasts do we consciously or unconsciously reinforce,
reify, or ignore? To what ends?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">How does imagining the field of theater and performance as a garden to be tended change
our usual patterns, modes, and ways of doing work? What would flourishing look like?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What must be weeded, composted, broken down, re-tooled, or re-combined to contribute
to the flourishing of theater and performance theory and criticism?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What are the daily, seasonal, annual “chores” of the field? What must be constantly done
and redone in order to maintain the cycle?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What does it mean to “get your hands dirty” in this field? Where is the productive
messiness?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What are the seasons of rest, growth, and harvest in theater and performance?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What is the theoretical equivalent of monocultural, industrial-scale agriculture? Of </span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">organic/regenerative farming? Of the community garden?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What is already growing in Detroit, and who is tending it? How might we engage, guided </span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">by an ethic of genuine reciprocity?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What does it mean to truly recognize land?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">How does attention to the nonhuman change perceptions of space and time?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">What would it look like to value process over product, cyclicality over linearity? How </span>would<span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt"> such a shift impact narrative, theory, pedagogy?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">How does environmental racism shape worldings both locally in Detroit and more
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">expansively across other geographies? What is the role of theater and performance in that
system of oppression?
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">T&C will inform participants of their acceptance by </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Monday, November 1</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, and the Theory and
Criticism Focus Group will oversee the submission of the Roundtable Series panels through
ATHE’s online proposal process. Send your roundtable abstracts to the Theory and Criticism
Focus Group conference planner </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Abby Schroering, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Call for Complete Session Proposals, and Curated Panel Proposals
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Sponsored by the Theory and Criticism Focus Group
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Complete Session Proposals
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">We seek complete session proposals for the 2021 conference that include a broad range of
theoretical/critical interrogations and applications based on the theme of “Rehearsing the Possible:
Practicing Reparative Creativity.” We encourage multidisciplinary dialogues across the fields of
performance scholarship and praxis. We also seek participants from a variety of focus group
affiliations.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">The Theory and Criticism Focus Group supports broad definitions of criticism and performance,
and therefore encourages a wide range of examples and topics. Feel free to explore both historical
and contemporary critics and theorists, in popular culture, academic scholarship, and performance
praxis. Panel proposals that engage scholarly conversation in creative ways are highly encouraged.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Complete session proposals (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-style:italic">separate from the Roundtable Series</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">) should be submitted directly to
the ATHE website (<a href="http://www.athe.org">www.athe.org</a>). You must have the names for all participants ready for the
proposal. The website includes submission information and forms. The session proposal deadline is
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">December 1, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Curated Session Proposals: DEADLINE Monday, November 22
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">We also seek proposals to present on curated panels. Please direct these submissions to the
organizer of the panel to which you are applying.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">1. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Cite Better–A Lightning Roundtable Amplification of Theorists You Should be
Citing</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">: As a field we have come to recognize the dire need to expand our citation pool. Too
often, theory and criticism privilege the same voices, overwhelmingly male,
overwhelmingly white. For this panel we seek presenters to give short spotlights to BIPOC
women theorists and women theorists of the global majority who we may not have learned
about in graduate school. For this roundtable we invite members to share lightning fast
introductions to scholars they want to make sure the rest of us know about. Presenters will
be asked to speak for no more than 3 minutes about an individual theorist and to submit a
short thumbnail summary of that theorist prior to the conference for distribution to all in
attendance. Panelists may present on more than one theorist if they wish.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Contact: Abby Schroering, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">2. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">Growing In Detroit</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">: Artistic expression and experimentation thrive in Detroit. This panel
seeks scholarship and criticism dedicated to amplifying work in Detroit and/or by
Detroit-based artists, past and present.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Contact: Abby Schroering, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Please Note:
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Individuals do not need to be a member of the Theory and Criticism Focus Group or ATHE<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">to submit single presentations or panels. However, if chosen and scheduled, participants<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">must become members of ATHE by the time of the conference.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Single Focus Group Sessions can address questions to the conference planner<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">) before submitting their proposal.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Multidisciplinary proposals must be authorized by TWO sponsoring ATHE focus groups.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;font-size:12pt">Email and get authorization from each focus group’s conference planner before submitting.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">For more detailed information, see the ATHE website.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:ArialMT">● </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">If you have an individually-authored paper that you would like to present but does not fit in<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">the roundtables series or the curated panels, please email an abstract to Abby Schroering
(</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:abby.schroering@gmail.com">abby.schroering@gmail.com</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">) before the December 1st deadline and she will help it find a
home.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS;font-weight:700">*THREE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PANEL ASSEMBLERS*
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Consider inviting panelists with a range of theatrical perspectives and backgrounds.
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference panels can be helpful networking tools. Instead of assembling a panel of only<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">your cohort-mates, consider inviting a senior scholar whose work you’ve cited recently.
Clearly and briefly explain the core idea of the proposal, the reason you’re inviting them,
and ask if they’re working on anything they’d like to present.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Alternatively, it can be helpful to give panelists clear options: “Dear senior scholar, I am
putting together a panel on [X]. I greatly admire your work on [X-related] and would love
for you to present in this area. Of course, we would be thrilled with whatever you would
like to contribute, but please consider that you might do A, B, or C.” </span></p>
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