We are pleased to announce that Dr Dolleen R. Tisawii'ashii Manning of McGill University will be one of the keynote speakers at CATR2018. Dolleen R. Tisawii’ashii Manning (Ojibwe/Potawatomi) is a member of Kettle and Stoney Point First Nation, an artist, scholar, and the youngest of twelve. Her Indigenous life-teachings, scholarly and [...]
Call for Papers: Performance Matters 5.1 (2019), Special Issue on Dance Studies in Canada Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2018 BACKSPACE In this dance studies special issue, we explore the productive possibilities of backspace. We approach the back in multiple senses: spatial, temporal, aesthetic, and kinesthetic. Back-story, backstage, background, back-work: although it is [...]
CATR2018 Tuesday 29 May through Friday 1 June 2018 at the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario CATR2018 is seeking participants for the following sessions. Click the links to go to the full CFP on the conference website: www.catr2018.wordpress.com/cfp/calls-for-participants/ WORKING GROUPS deadline 15 January 2018 Age [...]
Volume editors Heather Fitzsimmons-Frey & James McKinnon Devised theatre, performance creation, collective creation, performer-created theatre – by these or many other names, “devising” is increasingly visible in the global theatre industry, and as such it invites attention in post-secondary theatre studies and training contexts. How and why is devising embraced [...]
Applications are invited from qualified individuals for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the Department of Drama in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan to begin July 1, 2018. The successful candidate will serve as Coordinator of our wîcêhtowin Theatre [...]
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REMINDER: Deadline is January 15, 2018. --- Call for nominations: CATR Lifetime Achievement Award AND Honorary Membership/ Propositions de candidature : ACRT Prix Hommage ET Membre honoraire DEADLINE: January 15, 2018 La version française suit. ---- The Canadian Association for Theatre Research/ L'association canadienne de la recherche théâtre invites nominations [...]
REMINDER - Deadline: January 15, 2018 --- Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR) 2017 Scholarly Awards: The Richard Plant, Jean-Cléo Godin, Ann Saddlemyer and Patrick O’Neill Awards Guidelines & Call for Nominations La version française suit. Each year, CATR recognizes the accomplishments of its members and others in our field with [...]
4th Annual Tri-University Colloquium for Theatre and Performance Research University of Victoria, April 27 – 28, 2018 Return to the Phoenix Intersections and Interventions In 2018, the Tri-University Colloquium for Theatre and Performance Research returns to the Phoenix at the University of Victoria to begin a new cycle of presenting [...]