Call for Papers - Performing the University (working title) an anthology about the concept of the university as performance   Volume Editors: James Arvanitakis (Western Sydney University) Peter Copeman (University of Canberra) Amanda Burrell (Western Sydney University)   Universities are cultural entities, fashioned, refashioned and contextualised in specific social and [...]

Allan Slaight Chair for the Study of the Conjuring Arts Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University Carleton University invites applications, nominations, and expressions of interest for the Allan Slaight Chair for the Study of the Conjuring Arts. This is a ground-breaking and exciting opportunity to develop a new [...]

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM VACANCY: TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN DRAMATIC STUDIES The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg (www.uwinnipeg.ca), invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor. The successful candidate will be required to teach dramatic history and criticism in the context [...]

We are pleased to announce that Dr Dolleen R. Tisawii'ashii Manning of McGill University will be one of the keynote speakers at CATR2018. Dolleen R. Tisawii’ashii Manning (Ojibwe/Potawatomi) is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation, an artist, scholar, and the youngest of twelve. Her Indigenous life-teachings, scholarly and [...]

Call for Papers: Performance Matters 5.1 (2019), Special Issue on Dance Studies in Canada Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2018 BACKSPACE In this dance studies special issue, we explore the productive possibilities of backspace. We approach the back in multiple senses: spatial, temporal, aesthetic, and kinesthetic. Back-story, backstage, background, back-work: although it is [...]

Volume editors Heather Fitzsimmons-Frey & James McKinnon Devised theatre, performance creation, collective creation, performer-created theatre – by these or many other names, “devising” is increasingly visible in the global theatre industry, and as such it invites attention in post-secondary theatre studies and training contexts. How and why is devising embraced [...]

Applications are invited from qualified individuals for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the Department of Drama in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan to begin July 1, 2018. The successful candidate will serve as Coordinator of our wîcêhtowin Theatre [...]

The Online Features Editor is responsible for creating, editing, and posting regular online content for Canadian Theatre Review on its blog, as well as on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. The focus of this content is to establish and promote connections between current theatre and performance events and [...]

We are pleased to announce that Dr Helena Grehan of Murdoch University will be one of the keynote speakers at CATR2018. Dr Grehan is Professor in the School of Arts at Murdoch University, Australia. She is the author of Mapping Cultural Identity in Contemporary Australian Performance (PeterLang, 2001) and Performance, [...]

CATR2018 Tuesday 29 May through Friday 1 June 2018 at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario CATR2018 is seeking participants for the following sessions. Click the links to go to the full CFP on the conference website: www.catr2018.wordpress.com/cfp/calls-for-participants/ WORKING GROUPS deadline 15 January 2018 Age [...]