Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In many Euro-Western cultures, modern reality causes disruption of emotional, physical and behavioural equilibria. Minds and bodies are constantly under stress, due to phenomena such as the degradation of the environment; the modification of food, and addiction(s) to technology. Hegemonic neoliberal capitalism [...]
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Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Benedicta Akley-Quarshie, "Rehearsing Future: Performance as a Site for Introspection and Cultural Affirmation" The sociopolitical and cultural necessity of staging Black-authored plays, as affirmed by scholars such as Elam and Krasner (2001) and advocated for by figures such as August Wilson and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko and Giorelle Diokno, "TradWife Strife: Ecologies of Performative Femininity, Conservatism, and Identity Politics in Contemporary Social Media" A New York Times’ 6 November thrice-retitled op-ed, “Did Women Ruin the Workplace: And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?” [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: Curated Panel Rationale: The Costume Cutter is a central yet often overlooked role in theatrical production. If the Designer functions as the architect of a costume, the Cutter is its engineer, translating vision into a garment built precisely for a performer and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: This roundtable emerges from a community-based theatre project, ‘Masa & Memories’ in development that centres the voices of Salvadorian women across three generations living in Toronto, canada. Rooted in teatro popular, testimonio practices, the project asks: How might rehearsal become a site [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research, this roundtable brings together international scholars and artists who work within the cross-cultural exchange of Canadian plays through adaptation, transnational production, research, and teaching. Participants from Africa, Europe, and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: The CATR 2026 conference invites us to reflect on the inheritances of our field at a moment of profound political and cultural transition, marked by rise of right-wing nationalisms, climate change, polarizing technologies, forced displacement, and shifting geopolitical power. Theatre, dance, and [...]
Location: Zoom Room 3 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstract: The last 50 years have been formative for Canadian theatre and performance studies and CATR. As we contemplate the next 50, we find ourselves facing multiple crises, both within our field and beyond: the increased precarization of work, the threat of funding [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: [TBA] Abstracts: Robert Allan, "Cross disciplinary applications of creativity development in post-secondary non-vocational musical theatre education" Musical theatre education in the post-secondary sector is heavily weighted towards vocational training, aiming to produce (or reproduce) performers capable of fitting into the moulds required by commercial [...]