Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Sasha Kovacs 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 [...]
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 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: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 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: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4791764100 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 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 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: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: 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 [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Olivia Michiko Gagnon Abstract: This curated panel brings together three artist-scholars; playwright and director Frances Koncan (UBC Creative Writing), poet and land defender Rena Priest (MA Student, UBC Theatre & Film), and dramaturge Lindsay Lachance (UBC Theatre & Film), to explore how [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1 Moderator: Clayton Jevne Abstracts: Virginie Magnat, "Performance as Radical Collaboration" This paper engages with the work of several generations of Indigenous scholars foregrounding non-anthropocentric principles of respect, reciprocity, and relational accountability, and positing the non-separability of matter and spirit within the complex ecology [...]
Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1
Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Abstract: Training(isms): cross-disciplinary exchanges on practice-based pedagogies “Touch at a Distance: Examining Equity, Agency, and Consent in Virtual Movement-Based Training Practices”, is a postdoctoral SSHRC/Sport Canada funded interdisciplinary project that proposes a systematic examination of coaching pedagogies in Canadian sports and arts-based training [...]