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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Canadian theatre research community,</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">We hope that you will join us for a timely conversation about the state of scholarly publishing in our field, in the form of a seminar at the upcoming CATR conference,
on Tuesday, May 26 from 2-3:30 and 4-5:30 pm. Please feel free to come to only one half of the seminar if you have other conference commitments. </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">Here’s what we’ll be talking about: </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">As many Canadian theatre studies institutions, including CATR and
<i>Canadian Theatre Review</i>, mark their 50<sup>th</sup> anniversaries, and as the fields of publishing and media transform rapidly in our era, the time is ripe to take a step back and ask: How are the existing Canadian theatre journals sitting within our
field and the broader academic publishing landscape? What is the relationship between these journals and other forms of publishing about and of Canadian theatre? Looking forward to the next 50 years, how can publishing best support the field of Canadian theatre
studies and set it up for success? What are our priorities, as a research community, for journal publishing around questions such as open access, print/digital forms, peer review, and engagement with the theatre profession? This seminar extends a conversation
on these questions that the organizers began on Zoom in September 2025, and we are organizing it in conversation with editorial leadership at
<i>Theatre Research in Canada </i>/<b><i> </i></b><i>Recherches théâtrales au Canada</i> (<i>TRiC/RtaC</i>),
<i>Canadian Theatre Review, </i>and<i> Performance Matters. </i></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">We look forward to seeing colleagues in Victoria, and to this conversation. Please direct questions to Karen at
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:kfricker@brocku.ca"><span style="color:#1155CC">kfricker@brocku.ca</span></a><span style="color:black">. </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">Selena Couture, Karen Fricker, Nicole Nolette, and Kim Solga </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 lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Chère communauté de la recherche théâtrale au Canada,</span><span lang="FR" 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 lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Nous espérons que vous vous joindrez à nous pour une discussion d’actualité sur l’état de l’édition savante dans notre domaine, sous la forme d’un séminaire
organisé lors du prochain colloque de l’Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale, le mardi 26 mai de 14 h à 15 h 30 et de 16 h à 17 h 30. N’hésitez pas à ne venir qu’à l’une des deux parties du séminaire si vous avez d’autres engagements dans le cadre
du colloque. </span><span lang="FR" 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 lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Voici les thèmes que nous aborderons : </span><span lang="FR" 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 lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Alors que de nombreuses institutions canadiennes spécialisées dans les études théâtrales, notamment l’Association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale
et la revue <i>Canadian Theatre Review</i>, célèbrent leur 50e anniversaire, et que les domaines de l’édition et des médias connaissent une transformation rapide, le moment est venu de prendre du recul et de se poser la question suivante : quelle place occupent
les revues de théâtre canadiennes existantes au sein de notre domaine et dans le paysage plus large de l’édition savante? Quelle est la relation entre ces revues et les autres formes de publication consacrées au théâtre canadien? Dans la perspective des 50
prochaines années, comment l’édition peut-elle soutenir au mieux le domaine des études théâtrales canadiennes et le mettre sur la voie du succès? Quelles sont nos priorités, en tant que communauté de recherche, en matière de publication de revues, notamment
sur des questions telles que le libre accès, les formats papier/numérique, l’évaluation par les pair-es et l’engagement auprès de la profession théâtrale ? Ce séminaire prolonge une discussion sur ces questions que les organisatrices ont entamée sur Zoom en
septembre 2025, et nous l’organisons en collaboration avec les responsables des revues
<i>Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada (TRiC/RtaC)</i>, <i>
Canadian Theatre Review</i> et <i>Performance Matters</i>. </span><span lang="FR" 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 lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Nous avons hâte de retrouver nos collègues à Victoria et de participer à cette discussion. Veuillez adresser vos questions à Karen à l'adresse
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:kfricker@brocku.ca"><span lang="FR">kfricker@brocku.ca</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><span lang="FR" 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">Selena Couture, Karen Fricker, Nicole Nolette et Kim Solga </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">Adjunct Professor, Dramatic Arts, Brock University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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>
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<a href="https://www.circusanditsothers.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">Circus and its Others</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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