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<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;"><b>Performance, Migration and Nationalism Working Group / Groupe de travail sur la performance,
la migration et le nationalisme</b></span></p>
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<p style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;"><b>Co-conveners Sheetala Bhat, Yana Meerzon, Stephen Elliot Wilmer</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br>
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</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://catracrt.ca/conference/catr-2024-conference-information/" target="_blank" id="OWA32dd6c12-72f9-dc77-1209-258b4e9cc6be" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://catracrt.ca/conference/catr-2024-conference-information/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Canadian</a><a href="https://catracrt.ca/conference/catr-2024-conference-information/" target="_blank" id="OWA72a35f23-33e8-6b6a-cf90-d081cd06346b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://catracrt.ca/conference/catr-2024-conference-information/. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="2" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"> Association
of Theatre Research (CATR) Conference</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><i>Staging Justice: People, Places, Planet, and Practice, at
</i>McGill University in Montréal, Québec, as part of the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024" target="_blank" id="OWA478b693c-f609-8a5f-641d-c376a447abc4" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024. Click or tap if you trust this link." data-auth="Verified" data-linkindex="3" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">2024
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><b>ONLINE participation (</b></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;"><b>June 5-6)</b></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); 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: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;">In the CATR 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><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br>
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</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;">Proposals for contributions should be directed to Yana Meerzon (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137); background-color: white;"><a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uottawa.ca" target="_blank" id="OWAbca09012-1fab-e47e-0694-f484fffe487f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">ymeerzon@uottawa.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;">),
Sheetala Bhat (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137); background-color: white;"><a href="mailto:bsheetal@yorku.ca" target="_blank" id="OWAded5970a-cad9-1d8f-5b45-d37fdf4384b1" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">bsheetal@yorku.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;">),
and Stephen Elliot Wilmer (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137); background-color: white;"><a href="mailto:SWILMER@tcd.ie" target="_blank" id="OWA4079fc71-fc43-1917-3577-6ef9532e6e1e" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">SWILMER@tcd.ie</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); background-color: white;">)
by April 19, 2024. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);"><br>
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<p style="line-height: 18pt; background-color: white; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Ce groupe de travail vise à rassembler les spécialistes canadiens et internationaux en études
du théâtre et de la performance, et d’autres disciplines, pour examiner l’impact de la migration planétaire dans toute sa complexité et pour critiquer les pratiques liées à la montée des nationalismes. Se concentrant sur les questions de représentation, sur
le discours public ainsi que sur la langue des lois et de la législation, ce groupe de travail développera une approche collaborative favorisant une recherche interdisciplinaire cohérente pour évaluer ces pratiques.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; background-color: white; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Au colloque 2024 de l’ACRT, la rencontre en ligne du groupe de travail portera sur les connexions
entre la justice pour les personnes migrantes, le nationalisme et les pratiques de décolonisation au Canada et à l’étranger. Dans le contexte canadien, nous aimerions discuter, par exemple, de ce que la décolonisation signifie pour l’étude de la migration
lorsqu’on se penche sur la souveraineté autochtone et sur les façons utilisées dans les études théâtrales pour parler du rôle du colonialisme de peuplement dans la justice pour les personnes migrantes. Pour le contexte international, nous proposons des discussions
sur la mise en scène de la justice en relation avec les « théâtralités » des interactions entre différentes pratiques et les différents discours des nationalismes et de la migration, incluant l’interaction entre les perceptions qu’ont les nouveaux arrivants
du nationalisme et les formes de nationalisme existantes et émergentes du pays d’accueil, ainsi que les changements législatifs concernant les demandes d'asile et l'immigration, le contrôle des frontières et l'activisme. Nous nous demandons notamment comment
le théâtre et les arts de la scène abordent les relations multidimensionnelles et spécifiques au contexte entre la justice pour les migrants, le nationalisme et la décolonisation.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 18pt; background-color: white; margin: 7.5pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">Les personnes intéressées à contribuer à cette activité doivent faire parvenir leurs propositions
à Yana Meerzon (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><a href="mailto:ymeerzon@uottawa.ca" target="_blank" id="OWA578235b4-2515-9165-bc20-7a169e159bc7" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">ymeerzon@uottawa.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">),
Sheetala Bhat (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><a href="mailto:bsheetal@yorku.ca" target="_blank" id="OWA06736049-30d6-24a9-9e5e-1ab7514cc095" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">bsheetal@yorku.ca</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">)
et Stephen Elliot Wilmer (</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 124, 137);"><a href="mailto:SWILMER@tcd.ie" target="_blank" id="OWAd883947b-1048-dc5c-b841-c3985ed18ec1" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">SWILMER@tcd.ie</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);">).</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>
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<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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