Call for session proposals for ATHE 2015 in Montreal

[Lionel Walsh]

The 2015 Conference Committee, Association for Theatre in Higher Education 
extends a special invitation to Canadian colleagues to propose a session 
for the Montreal conference at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, 29 July - 2 
August 2015.  Sessions can take the form of practical workshops in acting, 
directing, movement, or voice; academic papers; or round table 
discussions. The deadline for proposals is 1 November 2014 at midnight.

Please see below for information about the theme. I also encourage you to 
visit our website for more information about the conference and other 
activities and/or to propose a session: www.athe.org.

Please note that paper presentations should have at least three 
presenters. If you wish to involve co-presenters from the United States, I 
am happy to send your ideas to the appropriate Focus Group members.

Je me souviens: We invite you to continue to dream as we look towards our 
2015 Conference in Montréal. Quebec’s simple but provocative motto, which 
is not without controversy over interpretation, caught the imaginations of 
the members of your 2015 Conference Committee —both metaphorically and 
geographically. For ATHE’s members, in the broadest sense, it invokes 
thoughts of remembering — remembering theatre at its best, when its 
immediacy and humanness is embraced, remembering our past and how it 
points to the future, and remembering our power to instigate change.

As most ATHE members will cross the national border of Canada and the 
provincial border of Quebec — which is recognised as a nation within 
Canada, and onto territory claimed by the First Nations Iroquois people, 
Je me souviens can be defined by considerations of place as well. Issues 
of country/isolation/assimilation that began in Phoenix, as well as acts 
of revolt/revolution, quiet and otherwise, give rise to consideration of 
the silences, the unsaid, the gestures, the sub-text, the dangers, the 
misunderstandings, the non-discursive in the “in-between” terrain between 
cultures, countries, and constituencies in Canada and beyond. Building on 
this, we can also embrace inter/trans-national and inter/trans-cultural 
exchanges in performance texts, process, or production. 


Lionel Walsh, Associate Dean
Academic and Student Affairs
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, ON
N9B  3P4  Canada
www.uwindsor.ca/fahss
519/253-3000, ext. 2029

Associate Professor
School of Dramatic Art
519-253-3000, ext. 2820
Fax: 519-971-3629
www.uwindsor.ca/drama
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