Roundtable: Listening towards Justice: Working inside Academic and Artistic Institutions

2025-05-17T01:27:35+00:00May 17, 2025|

Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel  • Session co-organizers: Jenn Boulay (Concordia University) and Signy Lynch (University of Toronto Mississauga)  Participants: Sedina, Fiati, Andy Houston, Jimena Ortuzar, Bethany Schaufler-Biback, Angela Sun Sponsored by / Commandité par: The CATR Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Committee and the CATR Committee on Conduct Institutions, including theatre and [...]

Roundtable: The Magic Circle In Participatory Performance: Play Frames for Gameful Dramaturgies

2025-05-16T23:16:23+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel Convenors: Derek Manderson (PhD Candidate, Theatre & Performance Studie, York University) and Laurel Green (PhD Student, Theatre & Performance Studies, York University) Roundtable Participants: Mariah (Mo) Horner (PhD, Queen's University), Jenny Salisbury (PhD, University of Toronto), Nicholas Orvis (DFA Candidate, Yale School of Drama) In [...]

Roundtable: The Latest from the Department of the ‘Interiority’: Current Research at the University of Regina

2025-05-16T22:25:53+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel • Participants: Jonathan Seinen, Taiwo Afolabi, Shannon Holmes, Wes Pearce, and Andrew Manera This roundtable will present current research within the Department of Theatre, offered as a welcome to those joining us in our city and on our campus to learn more about our ongoing [...]

Roundtable: Staying with the Trouble in the Climate Crisis: Performance, Pedagogy, and the Liminal

2025-05-16T15:58:15+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room B / Salle Zoom B https://us06web.zoom.us/j/5324702280?pwd=yuo077u9YJNihv59FvXxbosHNeVpvv.1 • Session co-organizers: Christine Balt and Kathleen Gallagher This 90-minute roundtable session invites participants to grapple with the ‘discontents’ of teaching, learning, and creating in our climate emergency. Reckoning with an increasingly more emphatic turn towards authoritarianism in political life, and [...]

Roundtable: Applying Theatrical Training in Pedagogical Development

2025-05-16T14:48:23+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Session co-organizers: Cameron Crookston, Lisa Aikman, and Matt Jones This round table will examine how elements of theatre training and practice can be applied to pedagogical and teacher training contexts beyond the world of theatre and invite theatre artists in [...]

Roundtable: Staging Our Voices: Indigenous Language Reawakening through Theatre

2025-05-16T14:09:39+00:00May 16, 2025|

Location: Zoom Room C / Salle Zoom C https://us06web.zoom.us/j/2520107866?pwd=Z7R43MTNhjgQvzQPTQjuzkaQYq7H91.1 • Session co-organizers: Amanda Wager, Laura Cranmer, Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, and Tara Morris, In Canada geographical categories pinned First Nations populations to defined areas, subject to federal laws seemingly sprung whole cloth from the settler imagination of the alien other informed by [...]

Artists Spotlight/Artistes à l’honneur: La Troupe du Jour

2025-05-16T13:08:35+00:00May 16, 2025|

Moderator / Animé par: Marie - Diane Clarke, Henri BiahéLocation: Imperial Room, Atlas Hotel Participants: Mamadou Bah, Jennifer Dawn Bishop, Gabrielle Dufresne, Émilie Lebel, Bruce McKay, Elom Kokou Nyonato Biographies Marie-Diane Clarke Directrice du Département des Langues, littératures et études culturelles à l’Université de laSaskatchewan, MARIE-DIANE CLARKE a produit de [...]

Staging Justice in Labour and other contexts

2024-05-29T22:34:59+00:00May 29, 2024|

Moderator: Taiwo Afolabi and Signy Lynch Location: Zoom Room B Link to Zoom Room B We will examine justice and labour within multiple contexts, including ongoing strikes at McGill, labour unions, labour within CATR, Canadian theatre scholarship, and ongoing encampments and protests.

Reflections on staging justice in drama, theatre, and performance in academia and beyond 

2024-04-13T02:23:52+00:00April 13, 2024|

Leaders: Signy Lynch and Jenn Boulay 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 https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/83800222747 Meeting ID: 838 0022 2747 At the two most recent CATR conferences, co-organizers Jenn [...]