Call for Papers: PSFG/ATHE 2015 Emerging Scholars Panel The Performance Studies Focus Group (PSFG) of the Association of Theater in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars Panel. The theme of this year’s conference, which will take place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 30-August 2, is “Je Me Souviens/I Remember.” The PSFG Emerging Scholars Panel is an opportunity for researchers to present their work at a major international conference at the outset of their career. All graduate students who have not yet presented at ATHE are eligible to apply. Selected emerging scholars will be paired with a mentor from the field of Performance Studies who will offer critical feedback on papers in preparation for the conference. Successful applicants will receive a $100 stipend as well as complimentary registration to the ATHE PSFG pre-conference. The PSFG may elect to award an Honorable Mention to an additional emerging scholar, who will be invited to attend the conference and join the focus group. Located at the boundaries and intersections of scholarly and artistic practice, Performance Studies theorizes and analyzes embodied practices and events, and explores the ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes social life. This year’s PSFG derives its focus from the multiple registers of memory that unfold in and across our host city of Montreal. What, how, and to what ends does performance allow us to remember differently? What tropes, technologies, methodologies, and experience of memory does performance allow, demand, and make possible? What does performance’s ambivalent relationship to the official and the legitimate mean for effects and affects of memory that performance produces? Submissions to the PSFG Emerging Scholars panel may engage these questions generated by the conference theme, or may address issues raised by Performance Studies more broadly. Papers across performance modes and historical periods are welcome. Topics may include: • Contested boundaries between performance, theater, and other art forms/disciplines • Performance as a modality of (historical) knowledge • Historiographical approaches to performance • Negotiating and building identity through performance • The role of performance in shifting configurations of power and resistance • Performative strategies of the avant-garde • Conflict, confrontation, and dissensus in the performance encounter • Intersections of performance and philosophy • Performance within postcolonial and neocolonial contexts • Performativity and theatricality • Embodiment and technological culture Papers for the PSFG Emerging Scholars Panel should be 8-10 double-spaced pages in length. The deadline for submission is Sunday, February 1, 2015. Please send completed papers (as attachments in Microsoft Word) along with a current CV to Patrick McKelvey at [email protected]. Successful applicants will be notified in late March 2015.
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