CFP: Performing Alternative Globalization

[Barry Freeman]

*Call for Seminar Participants - Canadian Association for Theatre 
Research Conference, Waterloo, May 26-29, 2012

Performing Alternative Globalization
Conveners: Barry Freeman & Catherine Graham
Deadline: January 15, 2012

*Globalization---the acceleration of economic and cultural flows and an 
attendant rise in global consciousness---is hardly new, but most 
historians and economists agree that it has  entered an aggressive new 
phase. Some of globalization's many critics have imagined alternatives 
to it; the alterglobalization movement, so-named by Belgian activist 
Arnaud Zacharie, envisions both other and alternative globalizations.

Our seminar will examine some of the ways that Canadian theatre and 
performance artists are creating alternative visions of/in creative 
networks. The theatrical sites and practices discussed may establish 
horizontal networks of international collaboration, may work to make the 
flows of globalization visible, or may confront audiences with the far 
reaching ethical implications of their lifestyles, choices, or 
spectatorship. Taking alter to point to alternative methods of practice, 
we are particularly interested in how Canadian artists are influencing 
or are being influenced by performances from other regions of the
world as they work to evade and defy restrictive traditional or 
market-based circuits of cultural production and consumption.

Possible topics include:

- Activist parody or 'culture jamming'
- Indigenous conceptions of globality, community, territory or resources
- The 'glocal' interface between community contexts and global forces
- Performative reclamations of public/ancestral territory and space
- Theatre for development or NGOs deploying applied theatre
- Anti-consumerist/capitalist/corporate performance
- International theatrical collaborations
- Women's rights and human rights in global context

Participants in the seminar will circulate their papers to one another 
in advance of the conference and participate in a discussion online. The 
discussion at the conference will zero in on issues arising and will 
program time for auditors to ask questions. Interested participants are 
asked to submit a 250-word abstract of their paper to Barry Freeman 
(barry.freeman at utoronto.ca) and Catherine Graham (grahamca at mcmaster.ca) 
by *January 15, 2012*. Participants will be notified of their acceptance 
by January 30, 2012, and will be expected to circulate their 2500-3000 
word papers to the group by May 11, 2012*.

*--
Barry Freeman, PhD
Assistant Professor ~ Theatre and Performance Studies
University of Toronto Scarborough & Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
Executive Editor, Theatre Research in Canada 
<http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC>
Associate Editor, Canadian Theatre Review 
<http://www.utpjournals.com/Canadian-Theatre-Review.html>
Email: barry.freeman at utoronto.ca
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