Posted By I. Mayorga,
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
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Women and Theatre Program (WTP)
Call for Papers
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
July 30-August 2, 2015
29th Annual Conference
Montréal, Québec
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel
Submission Deadlines:
October 17th (individual papers only: submit 250-word abstract to Season Ellison atseason.ellison@nau.edu)
November 1st (complete panels: submit to ATHE at www.athe.org)
ATHE 2015—“Je Me Souviens”: I Remember
Taking our cue from the 2015 all conference theme, The Women and Theatre Program embraces ATHE’s pursuit of remembering as well as the complex flavor of Je me souviens!
According to the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America, “no explicit written explanation of the origins or meaning of Je me souviens survives” today. Two primary interpretations abide: 1) a simple motto engraved onto the new Parliament building by its architect—to prompt people to remember their history and, 2) a derivation of the following poem, which suggests more actively political and linguistic undertones: “I remember / That born under the lily / I grow under the rose.”
Vibrant political and social tensions are alive in Quebec’s history and present. This includes the 1964 bill that gave married women legal rights beyond that of a minor, the 1970 initiation of the 1914 War Measures Act which essentially suspended Habeus Corpus, the Oka Crisis rebellion by the Mohawk native tribe against the building of a golf course on one of the tribe’s burial grounds, and finally a current bill —which if passed will restrict the right of public employees to wear religious ornamentation, from crucifixes to hijabs. The place of Quebec possesses a variety of civil rights rebellions, litigations, successes, and failures, and is a fruitful place for us to consider remembrance and dissent.
This year, The Women and Theatre Program invites you to consider geographical locale and place, memory and remembrance, silence and noise, and all that lays in-between. Possibilities could include, but are not limited to:
· What is the role of place in the making of identity and/or theatre? In the making of feminism or feminist theatre?
· If borders refer to pragmatic as well as amorphous, national as well as personal constructs, how might we transcend national and provincial borders to remember the past, to learn, or to create new memories?
· How might theatre help us to escape the reliance on borders or to create borders that will serve us as a species moving forward towards a more global world?
· What is the role of language in creating identity? How might the language we use influence the discussions we have, the legislation we support and/or deny, the identities we support and/or deny, and the theatre we produce, advocate for, and/or censor?
· What are our memories as a theatre community of women? How are memories embodied and how might the theatre help us to access embodied memories?
· How are women being silenced today? How does theatre contribute to voice—to the voiceless, to the overly voiced, to the under-voiced?
· What is the voice of women in Quebecois theatre? Of women in American theatre? In a world where borders are both more and less fluid, can/should/does a national feminist theatrical voice exist?
· What are women producing, making, performing, and doing in the various theatres around the world. Who is brought into the conversation and who may be un-remembered?
· Any topics that engage thoughtfully and creatively with the above prompts, and far beyond. Please email us with ideas or concerns.
While WTP encourages panels, performances, and roundtable discussions, we’d also like you to also think beyond the prompts and to think of presentations and/or performances that lay on or beyond the borders of tradition.
Instructions for Submitting a Proposal:
- Please consult the ATHE website, www.athe.org; it offers a user-friendly, step-by-step guide to submitting your proposal, which must be entered through the site by November 1, 2014.
- Note that your on-line proposal should include all special requests, such as audio-visual support (see proposal site on what is available) or grant applications.
- Multidisciplinary sessions are those that are sponsored by two focus groups. Contact the ATHE conference planner for both intended sponsors before proposing your session. (A list of focus groups and their contacts is also available on the ATHE website: www.athe.org.)
- Incomplete proposals will not be accepted. Enter information on all required fields (including names of all session members). If you have an individual paper or presentation idea and are seeking help in assembling a panel, please feel free to communicate with WTP members on our focus group web page which is linked under “Groups” on the athe.org main page. You may also contact WTP’s conference planner, Season Ellison at season.ellison@nau.edu. (Whenever possible, efforts will be made to connect you with other potential session members.
- The inclusive dates of the conference are July 30-August 2, 2015; unfortunately, specific time-slot requests cannot be granted, so session participants must be available through that time period.
- You will receive confirmation of your proposal directly from ATHE shortly after submission; you will receive notification regarding acceptance to the conference in early March 2015.
- If you have questions regarding the process that cannot be answered through ATHE¹s website, please feel free to contact WTP¹s ATHE Conference Planner, Season Ellison at season.ellison@nau.edu.
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