[Candrama] CFP: CATR 2025 - Performance and Migration Working Group

[Yana Meerzon]

Performance and Migration Working Group, CATR 2025
Call for Papers
Convenors: Yana Meerzon (yana.meerzon at uottawa.ca), Steve Wilmer (swilmer at tcd.ie), Sheetala Bhat (bsheetal at yorku.ca)
This year’s Performance and Migration Working Group meeting departs from the following question in the CATR’s call for papers: “How do we define ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ in a Canadian geopolitical context, and how do these distinctions resonate across Canada’s theatre cultures and within specific performance practices?” Distinctions between inside and outside animate discourses on migration, borders, identity, and culture among other things pertaining to global movements across nations. Within Canada, new migrants are encouraged to choose to go to “interior” places as opposed to the metropolitan centres through various immigration programs such as Atlantic Immigration Program, Rural Renewal Stream, or Rural and Northern Pilot Project. As movements across national borders define our contemporary world and subjectivities, their impact on “interiority” in terms of emotionality as well as interior and local landscape within national borders need to be further studied.
How do performance artists navigate and complicate the distinction between the inside and outside of national borders? How is migrant interiority staged? How do acts of border crossing challenge the assumed interiority of nation-states? Whose interiority is celebrated within the neoliberal and colonial systems of art making? How do diasporas and diasporic artists also draw cultural and linguistic lines of inside and outside? What neocolonial ideas of the frontier does migration challenge or comply with? How do migrant artists participate in the discourse and practice of decolonization through their varied relationships with interiority? We invite proposals that speak to these and similar questions both in relation to Canada and other geographical areas.

MEETING FORMAT:
Our meeting will take place online as part of the CATR’s ACT I (May 26-27) portion of the annual conference.
DEADLINE: April 1, 2025
Please send a 250-word proposal to Sheetala Bhat (bsheetal at yorku.ca<mailto:bsheetal at yorku.ca>) by April 1, 2025. Don’t hesitate to reach out to one of the convenors if you have any questions.

STRUCTURE OF THE MEETING:
After the moderators will receive expressions of interest to participate in the CATR 2025 meeting of the group, we will ask participants to submit short papers (3-5 pages) by May 1, 2025.
We will break the group into three subgroups based on the participants’ choices and will ask members of each subgroup to exchange their research-papers among each other. We will provide two research questions to be discussed by each subgroup in relation to the topic of the conference and their own work. We will also ask each subgroup to create an outline of the major themes and issues that are raised in their online discussions.
At the conference meeting, we will ask each participant to briefly present their position statements for the group (40 min); then we will break the group into three “breakout rooms” based on the previous conversation and invite each subgroup to continue the conversation they started before the conference (40-45 min). After a short break, the entire group will reconvene in the major room to finish the discussion and to outline next steps for the group’s meetings in 2025-2026 academic year.
Moderator of the CATR 2025 meeting is Sheetala Bhat (bsheetal at yorku.ca).






Yana Meerzon

Professeure titulaire| Full Professor

Directrice des études théâtrales | Director of Theatre Studies

Département de théâtre | Department of Theatre
Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa
135 Séraphin-Marion, bureau 304B
Ottawa (ON), Canada, K1N 6N5

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Editor. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques<http://www.critical-stages.org/19/the-essay-section-la-section-des-essais/>
Co-Editor. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Migration (book series)<https://www.springer.com/series/17066>






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