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2009 Conference in NY Aug 8-11

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Session Proposals due Nov. 1st, 2008

This past summer, members of WTP gathered at El Centro Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado for our 28th annual conference: Confronting the Silence: Building Bridges of Engagement. Our membership presented papers, performances, panels, roundtables, and workshops responding and reacting to this theme at both out pre-conference, as well as at ATHE. Building on this collaborative work, the WTP invites session proposals for ATHE's 2009 conference: Risking Innovation. In keeping with the activist and innovative nature of our collaborative work and with the conference theme, we encourage you to risk innovation as you conceive your session. Inventive and ground-breaking new modes of sharing and exchanged information are encouraged!

Some topics suggested by our membership include:

  • The role of feminism as structural innovation
  • inter-disciplinarity as a means of scholarly innovation
  • questioning the body as contested space
  • the risks taken during activist performance
  • feminist and activist approaches to pedagogy and performance
  • using race, class, gender, sexual orientation to subvert the hegemonic

Submission Process: Submissions for WTP-sponsored sessions should be made on-line at the ATHE web site at www.athe.org by November 1, 2008. Only complete sessions can be submitted. If you have an individual paper and are looking to form a panel, please contact Natka at ndb@umd.edu or put a query out on the WTP listserv. Further information on WTP, its membership and events and listserve, can be accessed at http://www.athe.org/wtp/ .

Please note these important Changes:

  1. The conference will commence on Saturday, August 8th and conclude on Tuesday, August, 11th.
  2. All sessions may choose one complimentary AV item, please indicate your request on your session proposal.
  3. Due to the change in conference days, you will not have the option to request specific days for your session. Presenters are urged to plan to attend the whole conference.
  4. The 2009 conference is cosponsored by AATE (The American Alliance for Theatre in Education). Multidisciplinary panel proposals need three sponsors and must represent at least one ATHE focus group and at least one AATE network. More information on AATE networks can be found at http://www/aate.com/networks.asp

For additional information:
Contact Natka Bianchini
Women and Theatre Performance Program ATHE Conference Planner
ndb@umd.edu

                                
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