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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: red; background-color: white;">We are happy to announce creation of a new CATR working group Performance, Migration and Nationalism. </span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This working group aims to bring together specialists in theatre and performance studies, as well as in philosophy,
history, politics, religious, literary and language studies, to study the impact of global migration on social, cultural and theatre performance and to critique and dismantle practices of nation-building. Our objective is to propose new philosophical and cultural
discourses that can help us understand the role of performance arts in building a more just democratic community of mobile subjects based on peoples’ shared interests and responsibilities, and recognizing the worth of different opinions, values, and positions.
The group’s specific goals include: 1) to contribute to the internationally growing field of interdisciplinary studies in migration and performance; 2) to develop new interdisciplinary methodological and theoretical approaches for the study of migration through
and in theatre; 3) to re-evaluate and re-validate the impact humanities and social sciences can have on the public sphere and discourses.</span></p>
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group will participate in the 2024 CATR meeting in June 2024 (online)</a></b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b><a href="https://catracrt.ca/catr-2024-conference-call-for-papers-and-sessions/" title="https://catracrt.ca/catr-2024-conference-call-for-papers-and-sessions/" style="color: rgb(237, 92, 87); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Staging
Justice: People, Places, Planet, and Practice, June 5-6th, 2024 (Act One), Online and June 17-20th, 2024 (Act Two), In-Person</a></b></span><span style="color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b><a href="https://catracrt.ca/catr-2024-conference-call-for-papers-and-sessions/" title="https://catracrt.ca/catr-2024-conference-call-for-papers-and-sessions/" style="color: rgb(237, 92, 87); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> </a></b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(237, 92, 87);"><b>The co-conveners are still looking for the participants !!!</b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Call for Papers: Performance, Migration and Nationalism Working Group: </b></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;">This working group aims to bring together Canadian and international specialists in theatre and performance studies
and other disciplines to examine the complex impact of global migration and to critique the practices of rising nationalisms. Focusing on questions of representation, public discourse and the language of laws and legislation, this group will develop a collaborative
approach for coherent interdisciplinary research to assess these practices.</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 14pt; color: black; background-color: white;"> </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-color: white;">2024 conference, the group will focus its online meeting on the interconnections between migrant justice, nationalism, and decolonization practices in
Canada and internationally. In relation to the Canadian context, for example, we aim to discuss what decolonization means to the study of migration when we center Indigenous sovereignty, as well as the ways theatre/performance scholarship addresses the role
of settler colonialism in migrant justice. In relation to the global context, we propose to discuss staging justice in relation to “theatrics” of interactions between different practices and discourses of nationalisms and migration, including the interplay
between newcomers’ ideas of nationalism and the host country’s existing and emerging forms of nationalism, and the changes in legislative systems of asylum seeking and immigration, border control, and activism. Among the questions we ask is how theatre and
performance arts approach the context-specific and multidimensional relations between migrant justice, nationalism, and decolonization.</span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>We are looking forward to expressions of interest and abstracts:
please, contact </b></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><b>Dr. Sheetala Bhat <bsheetal@yorku.ca> by April 20,2024 </b></span></p>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Sitka Heading"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(237, 92, 87); background-color: white;"><b>Yana Meerzon, Sheetala Bhat, Steve Wilmer (co-conveners) </b></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Yana Meerzon</b></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Professeure titulaire| Full Professor</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Directrice des études théâtrales | Director of Theatre Studies</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Département de théâtre | Department of Theatre<br>
Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa<br>
135 Séraphin-Marion, bureau 304B<br>
Ottawa (ON), Canada, K1N 6N5</span></p>
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