Location: Chief Dan George Theatre Abstract In his provocative American Theatre op-ed, “Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them,” Michael J. Bobbitt laments spending “three whole months every fiscal year” on board duties—time he wishes he could reclaim for artistic work. His critique is not unique but pointed: [...]
Location: Roger Bishop Theatre Abstract: Since 2020, Canada’s arts and culture sector has undergone radical infrastructural change. The COVID-19 pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, and the discovery of gravesites at former residential schools forced a reckoning with the systemic inequities and unsustainability of many systems, structures, and ways of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.