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Subject: Help the Religion and Theatre Focus Group plan for ATHE’s 2010
conference in Los Angeles
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:20:19 -0400
From: jill stevenson <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To: PERFORM - Medieval Performing Arts
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Help the Religion and Theatre Focus Group plan for ATHE’s 2010
conference in Los Angeles!
The Association for Theatre in Higher Education's 2010 conference will
be held from Tuesday, August 3^rd through Friday, August 6^th at the
Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel. The conference theme is "Theatre Alive:
Theatre, Media, and Survival.” Although sessions do not need to relate
specifically to this theme, connections are always great.
If you have ideas for session topics related to the intersections
between Religion and Theatre, we encourage you to submit them for the
2010 conference. (You’ll find details about online submission below.) We
are hoping to have any exciting array of R&T sponsored panels that
engage religion, spirituality, belief, theatre and performance from a
variety of perspectives. Some ideas that emerged from our membership
meeting this past summer (and a few carry-overs from last year) include:
· A Labyrinth workshop (perhaps co-sponsored with ATME)
· "Spiritual Practice and the Work of the Actor"
· "Moving Secular Theatre into Religious Spaces"
· "Enlivening the R&T Bibliography" or R&T canon mega-panel
· "Cognitive Faith: Challenging Assumptions about Performance and
Embodied Belief”
· "Popular Theatre as Ethical Media"
· “Recording Performance”
· “Ethnopoetics”
· “Performing Religion Online”
· “Urban Native Drama in Los Angeles”
· “Apocalyptic Performance and Media”
What other ideas are out there? If you are new to R&T and want to see
previous year's panels, the last few conference programs are archived
at: http://www.athe.org/conference/past/index
<https://owa.mmm.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=9080fe8c290f4592bf894cb6e616139e&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.athe.org%2fconference%2fpast%2findex>.
Just open these documents and search for "Religion and Theatre."
Planning for 2010 is in full swing and session proposals are due by
November 1st. See information below about how to propose a conference
session.
*_Proposing a Session_*
Although I certainly hope you will use the listserv to brainstorm
topics, *ultimately someone has to take the reigns and officially submit
the fully organized session.* This involves crafting a call for papers,
sending that out, gathering submissions and choosing those you wish to
include on the panel, completing the submission form, and then doing the
"stage management" required before/during the conference if that panel
is accepted. *The submission form will be up on the ATHE website soon
(http://www.athe.org/conference/index)*
I am happy to help people craft calls and to suggest listservs where
those might be distributed. I'm also happy to help people generate ideas
or to link specific individuals of common interest together. Please keep
me in the loop. *But please remember that the deadline for submitting
full sessions is November 1^st ; if you need help in organizing a
session, you need to contact me well before that date so that there’s
time to forge connections.*
*We encourage you to organize panels that include NEW people to either
R&T or ATHE generally. Panels are not just an opportunity to showcase
the work of people already active in R&T, but also to bring in fresh
ideas and new faces. So I encourage you to distribute your CFPs widely
and to think creatively about how to pull in new people for your
sessions.** *
*_ _*
*_Multidisciplinary Panels (MDs)_*
You might wish to organize a Multidisciplinary panel (MD) if your topic
seems relevant to other focus groups. All MDs must be sponsored by three
groups---this can be a combination of ATHE Focus Groups or ATHE
Committees. The complete list of Focus Groups and their planners is
available at http://www.athe.org/getinvolved/focusgroups/index. The list
of ATHE Committees and their conference planners will be available on
the 2010 conference website in the next two weeks.
Organizing an MD panel may seem daunting, but it really isn't. It is an
excellent way to continue conversations begun at previous conferences or
to begin new ones. If you wish to organize an MD, then you need to think
of what three Focus Groups (or, two Focus Groups and one ATHE Committee)
your idea speaks to *and then contact the Conference Planners for ALL of
these groups.* You MUST email EACH of the three conference planners
before submitting the session electronically by November 1^st . *You do
not need to include people from all of those focus groups on your panel;
you are simply trying to find other groups whose members would likely be
interested in the topic of your MD panel*. Again, please let me help you
start a dialogue with other FG conference planners. Feel free to copy me
on your initial emails to them and I'll help massage the conversation.
*_Online forms and links_*
At this point, the submission forms for sessions are not yet available
online. When they are—hopefully by soon—I’ll send you another email.
*The deadline for submissions is November 1st. *Once you submit your
panel online, please email me to let me know you have done so--just in
case anything goes awry electronically.
If you have _any_ questions or confusion, please feel free to email me
at this address or at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
All the best.
Jill Stevenson
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
Marymount Manhattan College
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Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/
Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada
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