[Candrama] CATR Seminar Reminder: Decolonizing Methodologies and Settler Responsibility

[Heather DavisFisch]

Call for Participants:
Decolonizing Methodologies and Settler Responsibility in Theatre and Performance Studies: 3.0

Organizers: Selena Couture and Heather Davis-Fisch

Deadline: February 17, 2017

Building on the two seminars on decolonizing methodologies in theatre and performance studies convened at CATR 2016, this seminar will move conversations forward, specifically focusing on how decolonial methodologies can be applied by settlers and other non-Indigenous peoples working and living on occupied Indigenous homelands.

Place-based methodologies are key to Indigenous epistemologies, expressing reciprocal relationships to ancestral homelands; conversely the settler colonial project demands that non-Indigenous arrivants adopt an extractive relationship to commodified lands, treating them as generically re-place-able resources. This seminar invites settler, non-Indigenous, and Indigenous scholars and researchers to consider how settler scholars can engage with Indigenous decolonial methodologies to address their own specific, place-based positionality and to develop responsible relations with the traditional caretakers of the lands.

Participants will have the opportunity to share and receive feedback on a well-developed work-in-progress (whether this is a draft of a journal article, a dissertation chapter, or a piece of writing in another genre/form). Participation is not limited to those who participated in 2016 seminars. We encourage participants to consider the themes of the CATR conference but also welcome papers on a range of topics–including historical, contemporary, theoretical, and practice-based considerations of decolonial methodologies–and reflecting a range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. We invite 250-500 word abstracts summarizing the work-in-progress and explaining why the participant wishes to share their work in this forum.

Description of work required:  Selected participants will submit their work-in progress, approx. 5000 words in length, by 15 April 2017. These will be shared with all seminar participants online (through dropbox, googledocs, or a similar platform). Each participant will be assigned to formally respond to one paper (approx. 500-1000 words) by 15 May 2017. Online dialogue and comments on additional papers will be encouraged but not required. When we meet in Toronto, each participant will provide a brief abstract of their paper (2-3 mins.) and each respondent will deliver a 5 min. response to the paper. Over the course of the winter, we will also circulate several readings to selected participants; participants will be asked to read a selection of these pieces in preparation for the seminar.

Due dates:  250-500 word abstracts and bio are due 17 February 2017. Works-in-progress are due 15 April 2017. Written responses are due 15 May 2017.

Contact info: please address any questions and abstracts/bios to Selena Couture: couture2 at ualberta.ca<mailto:couture2 at ualberta.ca>.

Heather Davis-Fisch
Associate Professor, English and Theatre
Theatre Department Head
University of the Fraser Valley

Views and Reviews editor, Canadian Theatre Review
http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/canadian-performance-histories-and-historiographies.html
http://www.playwrightscanada.com/index.php/past-lives-performing-canada-s-histories.html



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From: Candrama [candrama-bounces at artsservices.uwaterloo.ca] on behalf of Laura Levin [levin at yorku.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 8:30 PM
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Subject: [Candrama] Reminder: CATR Roundtable: Pop-Up Culture and the Anticipation of the End

Pop-Up Culture and the Anticipation of the End
Call for Participants–CATR Roundtable
Organizers: Alana Gerecke and Laura Levin

Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference
Colloque L’association canadienne de la recherche théâtrale
Toronto, May 27-30, 2017

This roundtable will explore pop-up culture in context of the geological time that structures the Anthropocene. As several theorists note, the Anthropocene has been shaped by the acceleration of consumption and production since the mid 20th century, an orientation to time and space coincident with what Jonathan Crary views as the non-stop, “world-destroying patterns” of 24/7 late capitalism. How might this orientation towards time give rise to and propel the recent pop-up trend in Canada and beyond, with its attendant urgency and hyper-temporality? Here we are specifically thinking of events and experiences that emerge temporarily in vacant, underused, or about to be demolished urban spaces, but also a much wider range of temporary inhabitations whose appearances—and meanings—are predicated upon their imminent disappearance.

With this session, we hope to start a conversation about the pop-up as a mode of address and a mechanism of assembly that is definitively structured by the anticipation of its own end. How does the pop-up spring from and speak to a culture of urgency that is preoccupied with inevitable endings and impossible futures? In selecting pop-up events to discuss, participants might consider the following prompts:

·      Is the pop-up simply a signature of a culture bent on filling every available moment and space with consumable (and/if exclusive) content? When does the form explicitly resist forces of consumerism (climate change awareness, human rights protests, Occupy, etc.)?

·      Can pop-up culture think long-term? What might this tell us about our relationship to possible futures?

·      Pop-up culture appears to be acutely contemporary: what are some historical precedents for the pop-up, ones that might also complicate the temporalization of the Anthropocene?

·      How has the popularization of temporary inhabitation shaped perceptions of, and rationalized (dis)investment in, arts infrastructure in Canada and other national contexts (as Jen Harvie has noted in relation to the UK)?

·      The pop-up implies a leave-no-trace ethos; but, of course, events mark and make space. What does the pop-up leave in its wake: what physical, material, psychic, spatial, and/or social stuff remains? What detritus? What vacuums or ghosts?

·      What are the dynamics of inclusion/exclusion that structure pop-up events?

Structure: In the spirit of a fervent pace, this ninety-minute long PechaKucha-style roundtable will allow each participant 6.66 minutes to show 20 image-based slides (20 slides x 20 seconds each) while theorizing some aspect of pop-up culture. These brief presentations will be followed by a sustained conversation about all things pop-up. Slides are to be added to a roundtable Dropbox folder by 20 May 2017.

Please send 250-300 word abstracts and a brief bio to organizers Alana Gerecke (agerecke at yorku.ca<mailto:agerecke at yorku.ca>) and Laura Levin (Levin at yorku.ca) by 17 February 2017.





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Laura Levin
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, York University
Director, MA/PhD Program in Theatre & Performance Studies


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