CFP: ASTR/CORD 2010 Indigenous Performance Working Group

[Ann Haugo]

Indigenous Performance Research in the Americas: Bodies and Power
Ann Haugo (ahaugo at ilstu.edu)
Tiffany Noell (tiffany.noell at asu.edu).

While 2009 and 2010 are watershed years in Indigenous performance  
research – with the
publication of one monograph and three collections of articles – the  
field is still emergent, with
little professional support for dialogues among researchers about  
methodology, focus, or ethical
considerations.  As co-conveners representing different generations of  
scholarship, we hope this
session accomplishes two goals: First, the short-term goal of bringing  
together scholars of
Indigenous performance who are at various stages in their professional  
development (senior
researchers to graduate students); and second, a long-term goal of  
contributing to a foundation
upon which future dialogues can build.

In keeping with the conference theme of “Embodying Power: Work Over  
Time,” we propose a
set of possible questions that begin with the concepts of embodiment  
and power, including
questions that focus on the role of the scholar in the research  
process, a highly debated topic in
Indigenous Nations Studies discourses.  However, because Indigenous  
Americas performance
research is still relatively new, we will also consider proposals from  
participants whose current
research may not intersect precisely with these concepts.  Thus,  
participants might consider any
of the following topics, or suggest their own:

• In what ways do scholars transcribe embodied memory?
• How do scholars mark indigenous bodies, or reveal the ways in which  
Indigenous bodies
have been “marked” historically?
• How is power transferred/transformed from the stage to the page in  
Indigenous
performance?
• How does Indigenous performance challenge colonial power relations  
in the Americas?
• How does Indigenous performance negotiate power as it relates to  
culture and identity?
• How is the actor-spectator interaction imagined in Indigenous  
performance?

Working Session Format:
In advance of the conference, participants will share 5-7 page  
“position” statements, articulating
their methodological approach, their subject or focus, and the  
significance of their research to
Indigenous performance.  Via e-mail (or another internet-based  
discussion forum) participants
and the co-conveners will identify common concepts, arguments, key  
terms, or topics through
which to structure an interactive two-hour session at the conference.

We anticipate that some participants in this session may have also  
participated in the seminar
session convened by Ann Haugo at the 2006 ASTR Conference (Indigenous  
Americas:
Performance Research in Local and Transnational Contexts), and we hope  
that this working
group will provide an opportunity to sustain a dialogue about  
Indigenous performance research
within ASTR.

Applicants should send proposals of 500 words or less (in Word  
attachments, with affiliation and
full contact information) by May 31st, 2010 to Ann Haugo (ahaugo at ilstu.edu 
) AND Tiffany
Noell (tiffany.noell at asu.edu).

Ann Haugo
Assistant Professor
School of Theatre
Illinois State University
Normal, IL 61790

(309) 438-3955

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