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<b><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Historiographing Hannah: A Critical Scrapbook Dedicated to Hannah Moscovitch </span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sasha Kovacs, University of Victoria </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“Scrapbooks are archives in and of their own right, whose flexibility invites anyone to engage in archiving [...]” </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">–Cherish Watton, “Suffrage Scrapbooks and Emotional Histories of Women’s Activism,” pp. 1029 </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">One of Canada’s most prolific and celebrated contemporary playwrights, Hannah Moscovitch has seen her work produced domestically and internationally, on stage,
screen, and radio, for nearly two decades. Moscovitch’s plays have been distinguished with high honours including the Governor General’s Award for English-language Drama and Yale University’s Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize. Critics have
bestowed her with titles such as “our most competent playwright, and I don’t mean that as faint praise” (Cushman), “a heavy hitter in Canadian theatre” (Murphy), and “one of contemporary theatre's greatest writers of character” (Barker 424). And yet, scholarship
within Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies has not kept up with Moscovitch’s abundant and acclaimed output, leaving scant critical discourse on her work (Barker, Demers, Jones, Zatzman). </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">As CATR 2023 gathers on Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the L’nu (Mi’kmaq) people, now also known as Halifax and Moscovitch’s adopted hometown,
this roundtable invites participants to present short reflections on her body of work in order to seed further scholarship on one of Canada’s most-produced playwrights. Its overarching goal is to generate contributions to and interest in a forthcoming critical
collection on Moscovitch’s plays edited by session co-conveners Sasha Kovacs and Michelle MacArthur. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Participants are invited to respond to some artifact, broadly conceived, of Moscovitch’s work as inspiration and anchor for their contribution–whether a specific
scene, design rendering, song, program, photo, review, etc. These artifacts will be gathered and circulated in the lead-up to the roundtable, laying the foundation for a “critical scrapbook” that will also inform the structure of the edited collection in development.
Understanding archiving as a site where “knowledge production begins” (Eicchorn 3) and scrapbooking as a “type of feminist archiving” (Watton 1030) that incorporates affective and creative materials and emphasizes collective knowledge-making, our approach
uses the scrapbook as a method of feminist theatre historiography. </span></p>
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Participants will be invited to write a short, 10-minute paper that uses their artifact to illuminate some aspect of Moscovitch’s work. Topics might include,
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<li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">representations of war </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">representations of Jewish history and culture </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">representations of motherhood </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">representations of sexuality </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">performing history </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">performing auto/biography </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">feminisms in/feminist readings of Moscovitch’s work </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">common dramaturgical approaches (e.g. direct address, music) </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">international production and reception of Moscovitch’s work </span></li><li style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">artistic partnerships and collaborators (e.g. Maeve Beaty, Sarah Stanley)</span></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The roundtable will take place during the in-person conference scheduled for June 15-17, 2023 at Dalhousie University and may include some (minor) advance preparation. Submissions from scholars
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</span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">alexandrakovacs@uvic.ca</span></span><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> by
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<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Barker, Roberta. “SONGS OF THE EXILES.”
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">Dalhousie Review</i>, vol. 99, no. 3, 2019, pp. 421+. </span><br class="x_ContentPasted0">
<span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cushman, Robert. “The Family Way; Hannah Moscovitch, Our Most Competent Playwright,
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Does Domestic Realism.” National Post (Toronto), 2013.</span> <br>
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Demers, Patricia.
</span><i class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Women’s Writing in Canada.
</i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">University of Toronto Press, 2019.</span> <br>
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<div><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Eichhorn, Kate.
<i class="x_ContentPasted0">The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order. </i>
Temple University Press, 2013. </span><br class="x_ContentPasted0">
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Jones, Matt. “After Kandahar: Canadian Theatre’s Engagement with the War in Afghanistan.”</span> <i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Canadian
Theatre Review</span></i><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, vol. 157, Jan. 2014, pp. 26–29. DOI.org</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>(Crossref), </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.157.006" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.157.006</span></a></span><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Murphy, Aisling. “From Toronto Stages to the ‘Interview with the Vampire’ Writers’ Room,
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Playwright Hannah Moscovitch Is Having a Moment.” </span></div>
<div><i class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span> </span>The Toronto Star</i><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">
(Online), 2022.</span> </div>
<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Watton, Cherish. “Suffrage Scrapbooks and Emotional Histories of Women’s Activism.”</span> <i style="font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Women’s
History Review</span></i><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, vol. 31, no. 6, Sept. 2022, pp. 1028–46. DOI.org</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>(Crossref),<i> </i></span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.2012343" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2021.2012343</span></a></span><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">.<i> </i></span></div>
<div><span lang="EN" class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Zatzman, Belarie. “Difficult Knowledge in Theatre for Young Audiences: Remembering and </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Representing
the Holocaust.” </span><i class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Theatre and Learning</i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">,
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<div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:12pt"><span> </span>and</span> <span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Heather Fitzsimmons Frey, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015, pp. 23–49.
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