Sustainability and Performance

2024-04-12T00:53:41+00:00April 12, 2024|

Moderator: Hope McIntyre Location: Room 0028 - Pavilion de la Faculté de l’aménagement - 2940 ch. de la Côte Ste-Catherine - Université de Montréal (Building 36 on the UdM Map) In-Person Session Performing in Response to the Anthropocene In this presentation I argue that there is an ethical imperative to [...]

Women, Feminism and Performance

2024-04-12T00:15:38+00:00April 12, 2024|

Moderator: Location: Room B4285 In-Person Session JUSTICE BEING SERVED IN A WHITE CALABASH: INTERTEXTUALITY, MYTH AND THE POWER OF WOMEN IN AHMED YERIMA'S MOJAGBE This reading of Ahmed Yerima's play Mojagbe explores the collective power of women in ensuring good governance, equity and justice in the traditional African society. Mojagbe [...]

Canadian Reflections and Mappings

2024-04-12T00:06:06+00:00April 12, 2024|

Moderator: Kim Solga Location: Room 4275 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Drama - University of Saskatchewan Enacting the Exotic: Internment Camps, Yellow Fever and the Flashpoint of Asian Canadian Theatre In an interview published [...]

Theatre and Performance During and After COVID-19

2024-04-12T00:03:35+00:00April 12, 2024|

Moderator: Marlis Schweitzer Location: Room 4270 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session Risk, redress, and redistribution in Living Newspaper: A Counter Narrative This paper explores a theatrical experiment that cultivated novel approaches to creative risk and social redress. In the [...]

Policy, Theatre and Performance

2024-04-12T00:01:24+00:00April 12, 2024|

Moderator: Barry Freeman Location: Room 4275 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media - University of Manitoba Housing Justice and the Contemporary Urban Playhouse Juliet Rufford has noted that both theatre [...]

Close Reads

2024-04-11T23:45:18+00:00April 11, 2024|

Moderator: Kimberly McLeod Location: Room 4265 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Department of Theatre - Concordia University She-wolf: An Irish Ghost Story If you are seeing ghosts, eat a dish of wolf meat. And if the [...]

Disability Theatre and Performance

2024-04-11T23:38:33+00:00April 11, 2024|

Moderator: Heather Davis-Fisch Location: Room 4265 - 3200 rue Jean-Brillant - Université de Montréal (Building 27 on the UdM map) In-Person Session Sponsored by the Fountain School of Performing Arts - Dalhousie University Disability Theatre in Canada: Working Together and Closing the Gaps in the East The paper that I am [...]

Global Performance, Intimate Spaces

2024-04-11T18:05:01+00:00April 11, 2024|

Moderator: David Fancy Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session ‘Accidentally’ Decolonizing Theatre: Notes from an Experience of Directing a Non-Verbal Play In this paper, I aim to show how restrictions on the availability of resources can often lead to pleasant and surprising dramaturgical discoveries, and [...]

Politics and Performance

2024-04-11T14:55:58+00:00April 11, 2024|

Moderator: Michelle Macarthur Location: Zoom Room A Link to Zoom Room A Online Session Crowdsourcing the Canon: (Re)Imagining Global Performance Art Histories Against the Grain  Since 2019, we have been coediting a new textbook for Routledge’s 50 Key series: 50 Key Performance Artists. While it was easy enough initially to [...]