CFP: Critically Kinaesthetic: Performing bodies of political engagement

[Kymberley Feltham]

Greetings,

Please circulate this CFP to any interested graduate students at your
earliest convenience.

Call for Papers, Performances & Workshops

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*Critically Kinaesthetic: Performing bodies of political engagement*

York University, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, in
collaboration with the Department of Dance Studies

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

April 16, 2014


The York University Theatre and Performance Studies third annual graduate
student symposium invites paper, performance and workshop proposals from
any discipline relating to this year’s topic of *Critically Kinaesthetic:
Performing bodies of political engagement*. This interdisciplinary
symposium will examine the body as both expressive, and generative, of
political meaning. “Critically kinaesthetic” refers to embodied
knowledge systems and their engagement in both aesthetic and political
spheres.

What kinaesthetic strategies are used by individual and collective bodies
to engage, theorize, and re-imagine social realities? How do individual
political bodies and/or the body politic generate new knowledge and
transmit inherited knowledge? Recent protests and social mobilizations have
demonstrated, in various ways, the possibilities of collective movement and
stillness as strategies for political intervention. How have past and
present social movements employed aesthetic, kinaesthetic and choreographic
techniques to galvanize political energy into action?

The bodily actions of a group, or an individual, have the potential to
create and transmit new knowledge and information; both the political body
and the body politic may engage in varying ways of experiencing, engaging,
theorizing and ultimately changing social realities. We invite imaginative
investigations of the body and its movements as sites of ideological
expression/sedimentation from a broad range of disciplinary perspectives.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

   - embodied knowledge and colonial/post-colonial resistance;
   - trauma, violence and performance;
   - embodiment and cultural memory;
   - theatre, performance and civic engagement;
   - choreographies of resistance;
   - diaspora and human geographies;
   - environment and cultural geography;
   - embodiment and empowerment;
   - critical pedagogy of the body;
   - embodiment and technology;
   - performance and cultural politics;
   - embodied belief systems and community practice.

We are pleased to present this symposium in collaboration with
the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series, through which we welcome *Erin
Manning* as our keynote speaker. Erin Manning will be delivering her
keynote address “Choreographing the Political” which will move through her
trilogy of books, from *The Politics of Touch* through to*Always More Than
One*.

*Please respond to this call by submitting your 250-300 word abstract and a
100 word bio to**submissions* <submissions at yutps.ca>*@yutps.ca*<info at yutps.ca>
* on or before December 5th, 2013.* Please clearly indicate whether you are
proposing a paper presentation, performance, or workshop and include
your technical requirements. Paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes.
Performances are limited to 30 minutes, with the exception of durational
performances. Workshops are limited to one hour.

Details about the symposium can be found at www.yutps.ca

Inquires can be sent to Kymberley Feltham at info at yutps.ca
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