Congress 2007
ACTR/RTAC
Building Bridges
May 25th-29th,
2007
Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
The Conference at a
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Building key:
Arch
is Archeology
FAC
is the Faculty Club
JM
is the John Mitchell building
NS-JM
is the North Studio of the John Mitchell building
STM
is St Thomas More
Updated Thurs
May 17, 2007
Friday,
May 25th 2007
5:30-7:30pm Arch 112 Old
Executive meeting
8:00pm North
Studio (NS) Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre (SPC) Spring
Festival
of the J Mitchell Bld (JM)
Saturday,
May 26th
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:15 STM
140 Introductions
9:15-10:45 STM
140 Plenary Session with Westwords
conference
West-words into the 21st Century: Assessing Western
Canadian Playwriting at the Millennium
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:45 STM
140 Play
Readings by keynote speakers
11:45-12:00 STM
140 Closing Words for with Westwords
conference
11:45-12:30 Arch 112 TRIC
Board Meeting
12:00-1:00 Faculty
Club (FAC): Book launch Thistledown
Press
1:00-2:30 Concurrent
Sessions
Arch 112 Session One (chair: Len Falkenstein)
Contemporary
Canadian Puppet Theatre: Bridging the chasm between the Anima and the inanimate
Arch 124 Session Two
(chair: George Belliveau)
Bridging Pedagogies Within the Academy
Arch 132 Session Three (chair: Natalie Alvarez)
Building and "Mapping" New
Bridges in the Urban Landscape
North
Studio (NS) SPC Spring
Festival of New Plays
of
the John Mitchell Bld (JM) ( MOVED to 8pm Mon May 21 )
2:30-2:45 Coffee
2:45-4:15 Concurrent
Sessions
Arch 132 Panel I
CANCELLED
Arch 124
Session Four (chair: Chris Johnson)
"Speaking in Tongues": Bridging the Oral and Written Word
in Performance
Arch 112 Session Five
(chair: Kym Bird)
Bridging (Past)oral Landscapes
and Contemporary Frontiers in Performance
4:30-6:00 Faculty
Club: Saskatchewan Playwrights
Centre's 25th Anniversary Reception
7:00-8:00 Rm
186 John Mitchell Bld
Book launch: Scirocco Press
8:00pm North
Studio SPC
Spring Festival of New Plays
John
Mitchell (NS-JM)
Sunday, May 27th
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 Concurrent
sessions
Arch 132 Session Six (chair: Anne Nothof)
Bridging the Distances:
Crossing the Troubled Aesthetic/Political Waters of Canadian Geographic Space
Arch
124 Session Seven (chair: Stephen Johnson)
Bridging Imperial and Colonial Performance
in Time: The 19th Century
NS-JM Session Eight
(chair: Sherrill Grace)
Musical Bridges and Arched Bodies: Bridging Gender Across the
Performing Arts: Music, Ballet and Dance
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:45 Concurrent sessions
NS-JM
Session Nine (chair: Susan Knutson)
Bridging Torontos: Marble Pillars and
Expanding Currents
Arch 132 Session Ten (chair: Jessica
Gardiner)
Building Bridges of "native wood" into the New
Century: Early 20th Century Canada
JM 282 Workshop I ( Natasha
Martina )
Breathing,
Contemplative Practice and Actor Training
11:45-12:45 Faculty Club: Talonbooks
Lunch
1:00-1:45 NS-JM Plenary
Remembering
Mavor Moore
1:45-2:00 Coffee
2:00-3:30 NS-JM Workshop II
Ð Plenary Session
Saskatchewan
Native Theatre Centre Lecture/Workshop
4:00-4:15 Board bus to Wanuskewan
4:30-5:30 Arrival
at Wanuskewin Ð Walking and sightseeing
5:30-6:00 Drinks
6:00-9:00 Barbecue
and Banquet. Memoriam: Herbert
Whittaker
Honorary members: Bob
Hinitt and Laurier Gareau
9:00 Bus
returns to University of Saskatchewan
Monday, May 28th
8:00-8:15 Coffee
8:15-9:45 Concurrent
Sessions
Arch 124 Session
Eleven (chair: Bruce Barton)
Bridging Violence, Memory and Monument in the Canadian Theatre Part
I: Bridging the Distance Between War, and Performed Memory and Monument in
Canada
NS-JM
Session Twelve (chair: Rosalind Kerr)
A Bridge Too Far: Aboriginal Women in Performance and Drama:
Moving Beyond Siege and Captivity narratives
9:45-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:15 Concurrent Sessions
Arch 124 Session Thirteen (chair: Cynthia Zimmerman)
Bridging Violence, Memory
and Monument in the Canadian Theatre Part II: Bridging Time, Trauma and
Memory: performing in the past, perfect and conditional tenses in Canadian
Drama
NS-JM
Session Fourteen (chair: Ric Knowles)
Building Personal
Bridges Across Theory and Practice In Teaching
9:45-11:15 JM 282 Workshop III ( Lionel
Walsh )
Introduction to Michael
Chekhov Acting Technique
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-1:00 NS-JM Plenary Session
Saskatchewan Aboriginal Playwrights' Roundtable
Moderator: Alan
Long (University of
Saskatchewan)
1:00-2:15 Faculty
Club - Playwrights' Press Lunch and book launch
2:15-3:45 Concurrent
sessions
NS-JM Session Fifteen (chair: Denis Salter)
Bridging Geographic, Cultural and Metaphysical Landscapes:
Part I: Bridging Ancient and Contemporary (Meta)Narratives in Performance
Arch 124 Session Sixteen (chair: Deborah Cottreau)
Building Bridges to Youth at Risk: Spanning the Community,
Educational and Professional Theatre Part I: Finding Voice, Identity and
Culture in Francophone Canada through Theatre
JM 192 Panel II
A Tyranny of Documents II: The Return of the Theatre Historian as Film Noir Detective
Moderator:
Stephen Johnson, University of Toronto
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:15 Concurrent
sessions
NS-JM Session Seventeen (chair: Louise Forsyth)
Bridging Geographic,
Cultural and Metaphysical Landscapes Part II: Expanding International Gardens
Arch 124 Session Eighteen (chair: Cam Culham)
Building Bridges to Youth at Risk: Spanning the Community,
Educational and Professional Theatre Part II: Finding Voice, Identity and Culture in Anglophone and
Aboriginal Canada through Theatre
5:00-6:30 President's reception
5:30-6:30 Venez cŽlŽbrer le thŽ‰tre Fransaskois / Celebrating Le
thŽatre Fransaskois
6:00-7:30 Women's
Caucus Ð Weczeria Restaurant ( 616 - 10th St E,
Saskatoon)
8:00 Songs of a Prairie
Girl (Performance) Ð John Mitchell Building, South Studio
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 NS-JM Panel
III - Plenary Session
Ambivalence(s) of
Invention: Dramaturgical Approaches to Creation
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:15 NS-JM Annual General
meeting
12:15-1:15 Lunch
JM 192 Women's Caucus
Mentoring Roundtable
1:15-2:45 Concurrent
sessions
NS-JM
Session Nineteen (chair: Claire Borody)
Bridging
vision and geography: Constructing Western Utopias in Physical and Metaphysical
Space
Arch 124 Session Twenty (chair: Jerry Wasserman)
The
(Pepper's) Ghost in the Machine: Bridging 19th Century Popular
Culture and Contemporary Popular Performance
JM 192 Session Twenty-One (chair: Wes
Pearce)
Bridges
Falling down: Deconstructing and reconstructing the healthy gendered body in
theatrical and social performances
2:45-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30
Concurrent
sessions
NS-JM Session
Twenty-Two (chair: Glen Nichols)
The Artist as "Good Citizen":
Building Bridges Towards the Future Across Troubled Ethical Waters
Arch 124 Session
Twenty-Three (chair: Cordula Quint )
Bridging
Afro-American and Afro-Canadian Feminisms
4:45-6:30 JM 192 Old/New Executive meeting
8:00 Songs
of a Prairie Girl Performance Ð South
Studio, John Mitchell Building
ACTR/RTAC
Building
Bridges
Congress 2007 - Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan
May 25th-29th, 2007
Full
Program
Building
key:
Arch
is Archeology
FAC
is the Faculty Club
JM
is the John Mitchell building
NS-JM
is the North Studio of the John Mitchell building
STM
is St Thomas More
Friday, May 25th 2007
5:30-7:30pm Arch 112 Old
Executive meeting
8:00pm North
Studio (NS) Saskatchewan
Playwrights Centre (SPC) Spring Festival
John
Mitchell Bld (JM) A
Box for Bones by Kenneth T Williams
Saturday, May 26th
8:30-9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:15 STM
140 Introductions
9:15-10:45 STM 140 Plenary
Session with Westwords
conference
West-words into the
21st Century: Assessing Western
Canadian Playwriting at the Millennium:
past developments, present challenges,
future directions
Keynote speakers:
Don
Kerr (Saskatchewan)
Mieko
Ouchi (Alberta)
Bruce
McManus (Manitoba)
10:45-11:00 Coffee
11:00-11:45 STM 140 Play
Readings by keynote speakers
11:45-12:00 STM 140 Closing Words with the Westwords
conference
11:45-12:30 Arch
112 TRIC
Board Meeting
12:00-1:00 Fac. Club Book launch
Thistledown Press
1:00-2:30 Concurrent Sessions
Arch 112 Session One (chair: Len Falkenstein)
Contemporary Canadian Puppet Theatre: Bridging the
chasm between the Anima and the inanimate
Cleveland,
Janne (Carleton) Bridging Desire: Ronnie Burkett
Theatre of Marionettes
Tracey, Dawn (Alberta) Ronnie
Burkett's Street of Blood
Arch 124 Session Two (chair: George Belliveau)
Bridging Pedagogies Within the Academy
Pearce,
Wes (Regina) Bridging Pedagogies: The Laramie
Project, Lord Byng Secondary School and
Community.
Prendergast,
Monica (Victoria) From Guest to Witness: Teaching
Audience Studies in Theatre
Lohnes,
Cortney (Alberta). Rethinking Boal's Rehearsal for
Change
Arch 132 Session
Three (chair: Natalie Alvarez)
Building
and "Mapping" New Bridges in the Urban Landscape
Eaket,
Chris (Carleton) Pervasive Gaming: Experiments in
Urban Storytelling
Moschopedis,
Eric (Calgary, AB) Trashing Cowtown: Locating Personal
Identity Through Dumpster Diving
Cowan,
T.L. (Alberta) "'The Rappers Don't Know What the
Feminist Performance Artists Are Doing':
Action Poetry '94 and the Birth of Contemporary Spoken Word Performance
in Canada"
1:00-2:30 NS-JM SPC
Spring Festival
The River Valley Sanatorium Ghost Tour by Catherine Harrison (MOVED to Mon May 21 8pm)
2:30-2:45 Coffee
2:45-4:15 Concurrent Sessions
Arch 132 Panel I
CANCELLED
Arch 124 Session Four (chair: Chris Johnson)
"Speaking in Tongues": Bridging the Oral and
Written Word in Performance
Radmacher, Kimberley
(Toronto) Hypertext meets
Performance: Bridging a disciplinary gap
Culham, Cam (Victoria)
"Performing Language" at the University of Victoria
Irwin, Kathleen (Regina)
Double-crossing/ Vying Representations in Crossfiring
Arch 112 Session Five
(chair: Kym Bird)
Bridging (Past)oral
Landscapes and Contemporary Frontiers in Performance
McKinnon,
James. (Toronto) Aiming the Canon at Canadian
Audiences: Cowgirl Opera's Three
Sisters: A Black Comic Opera
Owen,
David. (Calgary) Bridging Canada's Modernist Past and
Postmodern Present: Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism Then and Now
Green,
Reina. (Mount Saint Vincent) Park Shakespeare:
Bridging the Divide
4:30-6:00 Faculty Club: Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre's 25th
Anniversary Reception
6:00-7:45 Arch
132
Screening of Mavor
Moore's 1969 musical adaptation of Johnny Belinda (Elmer Harris). 1hr: 44 min.
7:00-8:00 Rm 186 John
Mitchell Bld
Book launch:
Scirocco Press
8:00pm
NS-JM SPC
Spring Festival
Trigger Happy by Mansel Robinson
Sunday, May
27th
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 Concurrent sessions
Arch 132 Session Six (chair: Anne Nothof)
Bridging the Distances: Crossing the Troubled
Aesthetic/Political Waters of Canadian Geographic Space
Wilkinson,
Lydia (Toronto) "'Just Watch Me': Watching Canada
Watch Itself Through Linda Griffiths' Maggie & Pierre."
Borody,
Claire (Winnipeg) Slow Dancing on Black Ice: The Cost
of Marginalization to the Theatrical Landscape in Canada
Turner, Mark (Toronto)
The City's Limits: Reflections on the Impact of 'Metropolitanism' Upon Theatre
and Performance Research in Canada
Arch
124 Session Seven (chair: Stephen Johnson)
Bridging Imperial and Colonial Performance in Time: The 19th
Century
Joseph,
Maia and Jerry Wasserman (UBC) Searching for Captain
McDonald's Trained Indians, "The Best Drilled People in the World"
Salter,
Denis (McGill) Part One: Speaking, Embodying,
Sounding, and Extirpating the Very Depths of Evil: The Theatrical Language of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry's
1888 Macbeth
Sperdakos,
Paula (Toronto) Ida Van Cortland and the 1877-78
Season of Mrs. Morrison's Grand
Opera House, Toronto
NS-JM Session Eight (chair: Sherrill Grace)
Musical Bridges and Arched Bodies: Bridging Gender Across
the Performing Arts: Music, Ballet and Dance
Lacroix
Melissa Morelli (Lancaster) Preludes for the Piano:
Bridges Between Gender and Genre
Stovel,
Nora Foster (Alberta) The Birth of the Ballerina: Self
or Sylph?
Lundgren,
Jodi. (Thompson Rivers) The Woman Beside Herself: Transnational Gestures in Contemporary
Canadian Dance
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-11:45 Concurrent sessions
NS-JM
Session Nine (chair: Susan Knutson)
Bridging
Torontos: Marble Pillars and Expanding Currents
Knowles,
Ric. (Guelph) "Bridging Cultures: Multicultural
Text, Intercultural Performance in Contemporary Toronto
Freeman,
Barry (Toronto) Theatrefront's Return: The Sarajevo
Project and its bridges of cultures,
traditions and stone.
Levene,
Gillian (Toronto) Major Gina: Interrupting the
Genealogy of Male Theatre Criticism in Toronto's Print Media
Arch 132 Session Ten (chair: Jessica Gardiner)
Building Bridges of
"native wood" into the New Century: Early 20th Century
Canada
Bird, Kym (York) 'Miss Canada to wed Jack Canuck at the tender age of
fifty:' nation building and a new
educational curriculum in the First World War Dramas of Edith Lelean
Groves"
Cooke,
Virginia (UCFV) Taking Stock of the Stock
Companies: The British Guild Players
in Vancouver
Kivisto,
Mikko (Illinois) The Creative Spirit of Art: The Theosophical Writings of Roy Mitchell
JM 282 Workshop I
Breathing, Contemplative Practice and Actor Training
Martina, Natasha (Saskatchewan) The exploration of breath within contemplative
practices and how that manifests itself within an actor's training
11:45-12:45 Faculty Club Talonbooks
Lunch
1:00-1:45 NS-JM
Plenary
Remembering Mavor Moore
1:45-2:00 Coffee
2:00-3:30 NS-JM Workshop II Ð Plenary Session
Heimbecker, Donna. (SNTC) Saskatchewan Native Theatre Centre Lecture/Workshop
4:00-4:15 Board bus to Wanuskewan
4:30-5:30 Arrival
at Wanuskewin Ð Walking and sightseeing
5:30-6:00 Drinks
6:00-9:00 Barbecue and Banquet.
Memoriam: Herbert Whittaker
Honorary members: Bob Hinitt and Laurier Gareau
9:00 Bus
returns to University of Saskatchewan
Monday, May
28th
8:00-8:15 Coffee
8:15-9:45 Concurrent
Sessions
Arch 124 Session Eleven (chair: Bruce Barton)
Bridging Violence, Memory
and Monument in the Canadian Theatre Part I: Bridging the Distance Between War,
and Performed Memory and Monument in Canada
Luger, Moberley (UBC) Memory
and Monumentality in Canadian Theatre.
Bennett, Melanie
(Calgary) Legion of Memory: A peculiar site of
memorial.
NS-JM Session Twelve (chair: Rosalind Kerr)
A Bridge Too Far: Aboriginal Women in Performance and
Drama: Moving Beyond Siege and Captivity narratives
Appleford, Rob. (Alberta). Bound and Predetermined: Aboriginal Women's
Performance Art as Captivity Narrative.
Paris,
Jamie (Regina) On the Adversarial Treatment of Women
by Men in Aboriginal Drama.
Perry,
Mia (UBC). Pedagogical processes at the theatre:
Clements' Women in Fish: Hours of Water.
9:45-10:00 Coffee
10:00-11:15 Concurrent Sessions
Arch 124 Session Thirteen
(chair: Cynthia Zimmerman)
Bridging Violence, Memory and Monument in the Canadian Theatre
Part II: Bridging Time, Trauma and Memory: performing in the past, perfect
and conditional tenses in Canadian Drama
Stephenson,
Jenn (Queen's) The Performative Past Perfect?:
Theatricality, Violence and Identity in Perfect Pie and The Drawer Boy.
Finn,
Patrick & Marilyn Potts. (St. Mary's UC, Calgary)
"A Bridge too Far?": Shakespeare and Goodnight Desdemona, Good
Morning Juliet.
NS-JM Session Fourteen (chair: Ric Knowles)
Building Personal Bridges Across Theory and Practice In
Teaching
ChainŽ,
Francine. (Laval) What the first teaching experience
teaches us in drama: to create bridges between theory and practice.
Belliveau,
George (UBC) and David Beare, Monica
Prendergast, Vincent White, Sarah
Wolfman-Robichaud. Performing the complexity
and art of teaching (in theatre).
9:45-11:15 JM 282 Workshop III
Walsh,
Lionel. (Windsor) Introduction to Michael Chekhov
Acting Technique.
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-1:00
NS-JM Plenary
Session
Saskatchewan
Aboriginal Playwrights' Roundtable
Keynote Speakers:
Maria Campbell
Mark Dieter
Ken Williams
Moderator: Alan Long (Saskatchewan)
1:00-2:15 Faculty Club -
Playwrights' Press Lunch and book launch
2:15-3:45 Concurrent sessions
NS-JM Session Fifteen (chair: Denis Salter)
Bridging Geographic, Cultural and Metaphysical
Landscapes: Part I: Bridging Ancient and Contemporary (Meta)Narratives in
Performance
Macdonald, Megan. (Queen Mary). Finding a Fault Line: Digging up an Anthropological
Foundation of Performance Studies
Quint,
Cordula (Mount Allison) "The 'Foreigner's
Invasion': Interculturalism, Tradition and Contemporaneity in Odin Teatret's Ur-Hamlet
Knutson, Susan
(UniversitŽ Sainte-Anne) Daphne Marlatt's Canadian Noh Play, The Gull
Arch 124 Session
Sixteen (chair: Deborah Cottreau)
Building Bridges to
Youth at Risk: Spanning the Community, Educational and Professional Theatre Part
I: Finding Voice, Identity and Culture in Francophone Canada through Theatre
ThŽberge,
Mariette (Ottawa) Bridging francophone linguistic
minority communities through professional training in theatre
Thibault,
Laurence (Ottawa) Representations in the creative
processes of French theatre productions for adolescents in Ontario
Saint-Jacques,
Diane (UniversitŽ de MontrŽal) ApprŽcier une
production thŽ‰trale ˆ l'Žcole
JM 192 Panel II
A Tyranny of Documents
II: The Return of the Theatre
Historian as Film Noir Detective
Alan
Filewod, University of Guelph
Paula
Sperdakos, University of Toronto
Alexis
Butler, University of
Toronto
Moderator: Stephen Johnson, University of Toronto
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-5:15 Concurrent sessions
NS-JM Session Seventeen (chair: Loiuse Forsyth)
Bridging Geographic,
Cultural and Metaphysical Landscapes Part II: Expanding International Gardens
Rudakoff, Judith (York)
Common Plants: Cross Pollinations in Hybrid Reality: Bridging Cultures,
Disciplines and Geographies
Zatzman,
Belarie (York) Bridging Communities:
"Common Plants" an international theatre research project
Arch 124
Session Eighteen (chair: Cam Culham)
Building Bridges to Youth
at Risk: Spanning the Community, Educational and Professional Theatre Part II: Finding
Voice, Identity and Culture in Anglophone and Aboriginal Canada through Theatre
Gallagher, Kathleen
(OISE/UT) Dramatic Writing and Subcultural Knowledge
Smith,
Annie (UBC) Culture squeeze: how may the academy
understand and teach a theory and aesthetics of Native performance?
5:00-6:30 President's reception
5:30-6:30 Venez cŽlŽbrer le thŽ‰tre Fransaskois / Celebrating Le
thŽatre Fransaskois
Join leading Saskatchewan fransaskois playwrights Laurier
Gareau, Ian Nelson and Madeleine Blais-Dahlem for an informal hour of socializing and celebration of
French Canadian theatre and playwriting in Saskatchewan. Volumes 1 and 2 of Le thŽ‰tre fransaskois will be available for purchase. For further
information contact Dr.Deborah Cottreau at didaskolos@sasktel.net.
Venez cŽlŽbrer le thŽ‰tre fransaskois avec nos dramaturges
fransaskois : Laurier Gareau, Ian Nelson, et Madeleine Blais-Dahlem! Au
jardin, chez Deborah Cottreau, nous vous proposons une rŽception
informelle de 17 h 30 ˆ 18 h 30 le 28 mai. Ici, vous pouvez
parler avec nos artistes et aussi acheter Tomes 1 & 2 de Le ThŽ‰tre fransaskois. Veuillez contacter
Dr Deborah Cottreau ˆ l'adresse suivante: didaskolos@sasktel.net.
6:00-7:30 Women's Caucus Ð
Weczeria Restaurant (616 - 10th St E, Saskatoon )
8:00 Opening
Night of Songs of a Prairie Girl - South Studio, John Mitchell Bld (JM)
Theatrical montage of the art, music and words of
Saskatchewan/International artist, Joni Mitchell as arranged
and directed by James Guedo. Sponsored by Congress
2007 and the University of Saskatchewan Department of Drama
Tuesday, May 29th,
2007
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:00 NS-JM Panel III - Plenary Session
Ambivalence(s) of Invention: Dramaturgical Approaches to
Creation
Pil Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Bruce
Barton, University of Toronto
D.D. Kugler, Simon Fraser University
10:00-10:15 Coffee
10:15-12:15 NS-JM Annual General meeting
12:15-1:15 Lunch
JM 192 Women's Caucus Mentoring Roundtable
Moderators: Louise Forsyth (Saskatchewan Ð Emerita),
Sherrill Grace (UBC), Rosalind Kerr (Alberta), Alexis Butler (Toronto)
1:15-2:45
Concurrent
sessions
NS-JM Session Nineteen (chair: Claire Borody)
Bridging vision and geography: Constructing Western Utopias
in Physical and Metaphysical Space
Hawkins,
John A. (Alex) (Alberta) Alberta's Theatre 100: Celebrating a
"Human Meeting Point of Vision and Dream"
Foster,
Katherine (Toronto) The He(art) of the City: Prairie
Theatre Exchange at Home in Portage Place
Arch 124 Session Twenty (chair: Jerry
Wasserman)
The (Pepper's) Ghost in the Machine: Bridging 19th
Century Popular Culture and Contemporary Popular Performance
Alvarez,
Natalie. (Toronto) Clown, Krump, and the Re-Appropriation
of Minstrelsy in South Central Los Angeles.
Butler,
Alexis (Toronto) Re-Vamping History: Neo-burlesque and
historical tradition
Johnson,
Stephen (Toronto) The Re-Domestication of the Exhibition:
A Visit to the Niagara Falls Museum, lately closed
JM-192 Session Twenty-One (chair: Wes Pearce)
Bridges Falling down: Deconstructing and reconstructing the
healthy gendered body in theatrical and social performances
Morelli,
Henriette M. (UBC
Ð Okanagan) "Lady, give us the history we haven't had": Bridging the Gap between Historically Specific Sexualities
in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine
Moser,
Marlene. (Brock) Performing Pink: Breast Cancer and
Femininity
2:45-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30 Concurrent sessions
NS-JM Session Twenty-Two (chair: Glen Nichols)
The Artist
as "Good Citizen": Building Bridges Towards the Future Across
Troubled Ethical Waters
Stedman,
Sam (Toronto) Social Change, Ethical Representation,
and the Inhumanity of the Avant-Garde
Nothof,
Anne. (Athabasca). Making History Meaningful: The
German Plays of Mieko Ouchi and Vern Thiessen
Filewod,
Alan. (Guelph) "A Paul Bunyan Ideal":
Workers Theatre in the 1950s.
Arch 124 Session Twenty-Three (chair: Cordula Quint )
Bridging Afro-American and Afro-Canadian Feminisms
Blum,
Justin A. (Toronto) Pedigree of a Topdog: Suzan-Lori Parks, Abraham Lincoln, and the Theatre of the
Absurd
Senyshyn,
Dimitry (Toronto) Anatomizing Discourse: The Specular
Body in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus
4:45-6:30
JM
192 Old/New Executive meeting
8:00 Songs
of a Prairie Girl Performance Ð South
Studio, John Mitchell Building
