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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello CanDrama colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">The Circus and its Others research network is hosting an information session about circus studies on
<b>Friday, February 27, 2026 from 9-10 am EST. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">If you, your colleagues, or students are interested in this burgeoning field and want to know more, please join us! Please see promotional material attached and below.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt">And while we’re here: The fifth Circus and its Others conference will take place in Kerala, India in January-February 2027 with the theme of “</span><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Embracing
flows and challenging genealogies: Ruptures, remains, and resurrections in circus studies and practice.”
<a href="https://www.circusanditsothers.org/call-for-participation">The Call for Participation is here</a>,
<b>with proposals due March 15, 2026.</b> <o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">All best wishes and thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;font-style:normal">Karen<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:29.0pt;font-family:Lobster;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Are you circus studies-curious?</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Invitation to an informational session about the field
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Contemporary circus studies is a burgeoning, interdisciplinary field bringing together scholars and artists from across the globe and from fields including theatre
and performance studies, area studies, anthropology, sociology, history, queer and gender studies, kinesiology, cultural studies, and more. Circus performances, labour and mobility practices, education and training, and colonial / post-colonial histories are
among the myriad topics of focus in the field. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">If you are curious about the field, see potential synergies with your own work, and want to know more, please join us at an informational session on
<b>Friday, February 27 from 9-10 am EST. </b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The session is organised by the
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.circusanditsothers.org"><span style="color:#1155CC">Circus and its Others (CaiO) research network</span></a><span style="color:black">,
<span style="background:white">an international, cross-disciplinary research project that explores the ways in which contemporary circus artists and companies relate to concepts of difference in their practice. The session will include information about the
network’s upcoming conference in Kerala, India in January-February 2027, for which
</span></span><a href="https://www.circusanditsothers.org/call-for-participation"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">proposals are due on March 15, 2026.
</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> Please contact </span><a href="mailto:circusanditsothers@gmail.com"><span style="color:#1155CC;background:white">circusanditsothers@gmail.com</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"> if you
are unable to attend but would like to view a recording, and with any other questions.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Zoom link for the session on February 27, 9-10 am EDT:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://brocku-ca-dart.zoom.us/j/88460271233?pwd=Xj9sWaYrtIcKW4GV87hJgueXvbgr3X.1"><span style="background:white">https://brocku-ca-dart.zoom.us/j/88460271233?pwd=Xj9sWaYrtIcKW4GV87hJgueXvbgr3X.1</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Organizers: Charles R. Batson, Union College, USA; Prodosh Bhattacharya, University of Warwick, UK/Kolkata, India; Karen Fricker, Brock University,
Canada; Julieta Infantino, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">--Karen Fricker, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Adjunct Professor, Dramatic Arts, Brock University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Editorial director,
<i><a href="intermissionmagazine.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">Intermission </span>
<span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal">magazine</span></a><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Co-director,
<a href="https://www.circusanditsothers.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Circus and its Others</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Cell: (289) 668-9692<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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