CFP: Theatre and Exile

[lisa fitzpatrick]

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~ CALL for PAPERS ~

THEATRE and EXILE

An international conference to be held at
The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
University of Toronto
March 21-23, 2002

Graduate students, faculty and theatre practitioners are invited to
submit proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of theatre and exile
to be delivered at the University of Toronto, March 21st - 23rd 2002.

The broad focus of this international, cross-disciplinary conference
will be on phenomena that have played a significant role in the
theatrical and political history of the 20th and 21st centuries: exile
and emigration, the reconfiguration of boundaries and the significance
of place. The conference will attempt to theorize the notion of exile in

order to encompass the wide range of borderline phenomena and to imagine

practical approaches of transcending traditional oppositions such as
own/foreign, nostalgia/familiarity, assimilation/difference as they
relate to theatre, drama and theatre practice.

Areas to be explored may include: the directing, staging,
performing and reception of exile; theatre of exile and
multiculturalism; the politics of race, gender and ethnicity in the
performance of exile; isolation, nostalgia and the pleasure of exile;
playwrights between two languages; exilic identity and experience in
theatre; the role, place and status of émigrés in contemporary theatre.

Proposals should be double-spaced and not more than 300 words.

They should be sent by December 15th to:
exile_conference at yahoo.com

or by mail to:
Conference on Theatre and Exile
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
214 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 2Z9
Canada

Selected conference proceedings will be published in a special
issue of Modern Drama.

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