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 and Performance: Expanding Intersectionality Working Group
Convenors: Benjamin Gillespie & Julia Henderson
Disability, Pedagogies, and Performance Working Group
Convenors: Ashley McAskill & Jessica Watkin
Establishing a System of Peer Review: On-Campus Production-Based Research Working Group
Convenors: Claire Carolan, Ray Louter, James McKinnon, Ursula Neuerberg-Denzer, Sandra Chamberlain-Snider
Performance History Working Group
Convenor: Stephen Johnson
Scenography Working Group
Convenors: Natalie Rewa, Gabrielle Houle, Jacquey Taucar
SEMINARS
deadline 15 January
Hot Mess: Nasty Feminisms in Performance
Convenors: Thea Fitz-James & Sydney Tyber
Performance for/by/with Young People: Presenting the “Here and Now”
Convenors: Sandra Chamberlain-Snider & Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
Performance Studies in Canada: Excavating Alternate Methodologies and Genealogies
Convenors: Susan Bennett, Laura Levin, Marlis Schweitzer
Spectatorship and Audience Research: Modes of Reception Beyond, Through, and Between Disciplines
Convenors: Cassandra Silver, Jenny Salisbury, Scott Mealey & Kelsey Jacobson
Theatre and (Im)migration: Performing Canadian Frontiers
Convenor: Yana Meerzon
Walking Our Way Here
Convenors: Jenn Cole, Natalie Rewa & Keren Zaiontz
CURATED PANELS
deadlines 15 December 2017
CANADA150: Performing the Nation?
Convenor: Wes Pearce
Canadian Musicals / Musicals in Canada
Convenor: Grahame Renyk
Crossing Paradigmatic Boundaries:
Considering Tensions to Bolster Alliances
Convenors: Julia Gray and Catherine Graham
Excavating Sound: Shaping a Performance / Sound Studies Forum
Convenors: Megan Johnson and Moynan King
Extractivism in Canadian Performance Culture
Convenor: Kimberly Richards
Reconsidering Genre in Music Theatre
Convenors: Craig Walker & Colleen Renihan
Toward a Canadian Can(n)on: The role of Living History in Recognizing, Resisting, and Remaking a National Historical Narrative
Convenor: Ashley Williamson
Winners and Losers: Competition, Athletics, and Performance
Convenors: Christine Mazumdar & Kelsey Blair
ROUNDTABLES
deadlines 15 December 2017
Digital Dance, Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies in Canada
Convenor: Carolyne Clare
Theatre and Performance vs. the “Crisis in the Humanities”: Creative Pedagogies, Neoliberal Realities
Convenor: Kim Solga
Please direct general inquiries to Conference Co-Chairs Jenn Stephenson and Craig Walker at catr2018@gmail.com