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Special Session: Canadian Theatre and Cross-Cultural Dialogues

Sarah Robbins2026-06-03T19:00:07+00:00April 2, 2026|

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 [...]

Online Working Group 1: Performance, Migration, and Nationalism

Sarah Robbins2026-06-03T19:04:29+00:00April 2, 2026|

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 [...]

Online Seminar 1: Rehearsing for just futures: labour and justice in precarious times

Sarah Robbins2026-06-03T11:51:03+00:00April 2, 2026|

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 [...]

Online Paper Panel 3: Re/Imagining Performance Inheritances

Sarah Robbins2026-06-10T00:25:21+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 2 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6087153816?pwd=ppMzS6CF8VMyDMKcF9DX0BiTTC3Exf.1 Moderator: Tarn Mokara and Sasha Kovacs 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 [...]

Online Plenary Panel: Currents of Inheritance: Dramaturgy Shaped by Water, Story, and Place

Sarah Robbins2026-06-03T10:06:27+00:00April 2, 2026|

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 [...]

Online Paper Panel 2: Regional Representation, Diasporic Stages, Settler States

Sarah Robbins2026-06-03T11:47:57+00:00April 2, 2026|

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 [...]

Act II Online Welcome

Sarah Robbins2026-06-04T12:29:10+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Zoom Room 1 Zoom Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3874647177?pwd=Jw1g9axPFpvKa8qEe26DCLjGd0ACbW.1

Closing Longtable: Futures of the Field/Student Respondents to CATR/ACRT 50

Sarah Robbins2026-05-15T00:29:47+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Chief Dan George Theatre

Paper Panel 27: Pedagogies for Change

Sarah Robbins2026-05-09T13:19:33+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Barbara McIntyre Theatre Moderator: Stephen Johnson Claire Fogal, "Relational Performance Pedagogy as Creative Inheritance" This paper shares the key findings of my 2024 UBC dissertation “Relational Performance Pedagogy: Decroux and Grotowski based innovations in Western Canada.” The project was personal, investigating the entwined training inheritance I’ve received from my [...]

Paper Panel 26: Assembly, Authority & Encounter

Sarah Robbins2026-05-09T13:18:35+00:00April 2, 2026|

Location: Design Room Moderator: Kelsey Jacobson Tracy Ross, "ART/IF/ACTS: Rehearsing Embodied Futures in University Space" From my overlapping positions as lecturer, doctoral student, artist, and parent, I trace the worn paths of a corporate university where exhaustion, disconnection, and “hope circuits” are frayed. My doctoral work asks: how might we [...]