[Candrama] CFP #MeToo

[Judith Rudakoff]

Apologies or any cross postings.

*CALL FOR PROPOSALS (BOOK)*

*/Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away/*

Editor: Judith Rudakoff

/“Suggested by a friend: ‘If all the women who have been sexually 
harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people 
a sense of the magnitude of the problem.”/

This tweet by Alyssa Milano, sent on October 15, 2017, opened the flood 
gates to an outpouring of testimony and witnessing across the 
Twitterverse that subsequently reverberated throughout social media. 
Facebook status lines quickly began to read “Me too,” and the hashtag 
#MeToo was trending. Abby Ohlheiser wrote in /The Washington Post/ on 
October 19, 2017, “#MeToo has produced a kind of unity by volume, but 
when you speak to individual women about it, you find a wide range of 
responses — empowerment, exhaustion, solidarity, trauma.”

The original MeToo movement began a decade earlier, in 2006, when 
African American activist Tarana Burke adopted the phrase as part of her 
campaign to raise awareness of sexual violence against women. Today’s 
provocative campaign has inspired not only awareness, testimony, and 
witnessing, but also artistic response.

This CFP invites the international community of scholars and artists to 
contribute essays to a book that will focus on the diversity of 
responses to and critical engagement with live performance emanating 
from or dramatizing issues and experiences central to the #MeToo movement.

Essays might examine contemporary work, or adaptations of works from 
other eras, re-imagined in a #MeToo context. A wide range of cultural 
voices reflecting a diversity of perspectives is encouraged.

Critical engagement with live performance that blurs boundaries between 
genres or is outside of conventional theatre form is also encouraged. 
(For example, discussion and close reading of Kesha’s moving #MeToo 
performance of “Praying” at the 2018 Grammy Awards.)

Essays should document, analyze, and interrogate specific performances 
and the contexts that inspired them.

Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted on or before June 30, 
2018 (to rudakoff at yorku.ca <mailto:rudakoff at yorku.ca>with the subject 
line #MeToo: your surname) as a double-spaced MS Word file attachment 
and should include a brief biographical note and indication of 
professional affiliation.

Anticipated production schedule (subject to change)

Abstracts due June 30 2018

Papers due December 30 2018

Revised papers due May 1 2019

Manuscript submitted to publisher (Intellect Books UK) June 30 2019

Full articles will be due on or before December 30, 2018, and should be 
submitted (to rudakoff at yorku.ca <mailto:rudakoff at yorku.ca>with the 
subject line #MeToo: your surname) as a double-spaced MS Word file email 
attachment following the editorial style of Chicago Manual of Style 
16^th Edition. Articles should be written in English and 5,000-7,000 
words in length (including notes), although shorter pieces will be 
considered. Please include a brief biographical note with the final 
submission of up to 500 words that includes your affiliation.

Please address any questions to:

rudakoff at yorku.ca <mailto:rudakoff at yorku.ca>

Judith Rudakoff (Dr.)

Professor

Theatre Department

Centre for Film & Theatre

York University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Judith Rudakoff (Dr.)
Professor of Theatre
School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto,Ontario
Canada M6C 3J1

Tell me and I may forget
Explain to me and I may remember
Involve meand I will understand


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