Call for Interest: Disability and Performance
FIRT/IFTR 2012 in Santiago de Chile
The Performance and Disability Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research will be meeting for the first time at the annual conference in Santiago, Chile (22- 28 July 2012). We are soliciting interest in our working group from any area of performance studies that intersects with disability studies.
We welcome perspectives from practice, history or theory in any field or discipline. The goal of this group is to have an international dialogue regarding disability and performance and to share scholarly work and best practices from around the world – traditions, conventions and demonstrations of how diverse physical, sensorial, developmental and psychological abilities manifest in all areas of performance. We are open to any definition of disability or performance.
Some of the questions we would like to consider in Santiago include:
How is disability mediated in performance (on stage or in daily life)
- The integration and (re)consideration of abilities in performance
- Enabling audiences and practitioners
- Disabling practice and theory
- The intersections of disability and performance studies
- The mediation of disability culture (disability and interculturalism)
- Physical, sensorial, developmental or psychologically normality in performance practice, theory and history
If you would like to join us in Santiago, please contact the Working Group Conveners:
Yvonne Schmidt (English, French and German): [log in to unmask]
Mark Swetz (English and Spanish): [log in to unmask]
If you would like to submit a paper, please submit your abstract through the FIRT/IFTR website and make a note that you are interested in the Performance and Disability Working Group: http://www.firt2012stgochile.com/index.php/conference/papers
More information about the conference and themes can be found on http://www.firt2012stgochile.com/
The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2012.
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