Leaders: Signy Lynch and Jenn Boulay
Location: Room 0028 – Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement – 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine – Université de Montréal
(Building 36 on the UdM Map)
In-Person Session
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83800222747
Meeting ID: 838 0022 2747
At the two most recent CATR conferences, co-organizers Jenn Boulay and Signy Lynch led two seminars, “Burning it All Down: Advocating for Structural Change through Disability Justice” and “Performing Complaint: Working on theatre and performance institutions.” These two sessions invited participants from a wide range of backgrounds to share responses and collaboratively brainstorm on issues of complaint (inspired by Sara Ahmed’s Complaint!) and Disability Justice (inspired by Sins Invalid’s “10 Principles for Disability Justice” and Jenny Boulay’s work), as they relate to effecting change in Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies (DTPS) departments and institutions.
Our proposal for this year (title TBA), is a roundtable that builds from these two conversations, drawing on themes and participants from the previous years to focus particularly on barriers to effecting change within DTPS departments and institutions (including reflexively examining how these barriers have surfaced within our own conversations). While our previous two sessions served primarily as spaces for internal reflection and community building, we feel that the conversation has advanced to a point that we would like to share our observations and work-in-progress with the broader CATR membership. In a roundtable that strongly addresses this year’s conference theme of “Staging Justice,” we will invite guests from the earlier seminars, as well as some new arts professionals, artists, and/or scholars from Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, to cultivate a forum for critical reflection and knowledge-sharing on the work towards collective liberation in both scholarly and practical contexts.
Works Cited
“10 Principles of Disability Justice” Sins Invalid, sinsinvalid.org/blog/10-principles-of-disability-justice
Ahmed, Sara. Complaint!. Duke UP, 2021.
Boulay, Jenn. “The World is On Fire: Disability Justice is my Strength.” Knots: An Undergraduate Journal of Disability Studies, vol. 6, no.1, 2021, pp. 68-75.