Curated panel / Panel organisé: (Un)Staging Justice: Identities, Resistance and Embodying the Future through Performance

2025-05-17T10:22:46+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Imperial Room (Atlas Hotel) Curated by / Organisé par: Taiwo Afolabi Nikkole Salter, “Embodying the Future: Acting Praxis beyond Narrative Solipsism” Gabriel Friday, “Soro Soke: A Framing Analysis of Creative Resistance during Nigeria’s #EndSARS Movement” Khalid Y. Long, “Radical Creativity: Black Lives Matter and Performance" Sola John, “Staging the [...]

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address/Mot de bienvenue et conférence invitee – Jill Carter

2025-05-17T10:02:38+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 Online Session Working Title: When They Left the Dust Remembered: Indigenous Land-Based Dramaturgy / Connection / Disconnection / Cellular Memory/ Metis performer-playwright P.J. Prudat’s latest work in development kiskisiwin nimihko/my blood remembers  is a throbbing meditation on the dizzying constellation of cells that feed, form, [...]

Panel: Reappraisals of Contemporary Drama

2025-05-17T02:02:44+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 Moderator: Robin C. Whittaker • Marcia Blumberg, “Staging the Liminality of Exile in Janusz Glowacki's Antigone in New York” Staging the Liminality of Exile in Janusz Glowacki’s Antigone in New York (1992).Liminality is a state of transition or in-between-ness, marked by disruption, uncertainty, or disorientation. It acknowledges [...]

Panel: Engaging Place and Space

2025-05-17T01:51:22+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room A https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8075386377?pwd=QGMSB3uhyUxwIbvOIzkUanoMoqRkOX.1 Online Session • Christine Balt, “How to Thrive in a Crisis: Generating the ‘Conditions of Possibility’ for Living Well (Enough) in Drama Spaces” This paper engages with ‘thriving’ as a productive concept for thinking about ‘living well’ amid the many ‘economies of abandonment’ of our [...]

Praxis Session/Session Pratique: Dyeing a Good Death

2025-05-17T01:41:03+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Blue Room (Riddell Centre, University of Regina) • Dale MacDonald, “Dyeing a Good Death” Ostensibly, the corpse’s experience appears as total, inexpressible interiority; Hamlet’s “undiscovere’d country, from whose bourn/No traveller returns” rings temptingly true for the living, especially if they have encountered a dead body. But I’m not so [...]