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Dangerous Liaisons: Feminist Engagements with Race, Sexuality, Class, and Gender in Theatre and Media- 35th Annual Women and Theatre Program (WTP) Conference Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) August 2, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA University of California, Los Angeles
What would it mean to create a “dangerous liaison” between the feminist and the queer? What are some of the experiments and pursuits made towards interrogating how the theatre and media influences the production and reception of race, sex, class, and gender in feminist and queer performances? This call for papers asks for explicative representations of how feminist and queer performance intersects with race, sexuality, class, and gender to perform/critique the “dangerous liaisons.”
ATHE’s conference theme this year is Theatre Live: Theater, Media, and Survival, and though theater and media are at the centre of the WTP’s conference theme as well, we deploy the concept of “dangerous liaisons” as we interrogate the influences of theatre and media on feminist and queer communities, performance, collaborations, and other related issues. The WTP wishes to use the 2010 conference as a moment to explore ways to include those who have been excluded from political processes, to examine the impacts of theatre and media on feminist and queer communities, to build and explore collaborations among marginalized groups. Some topics suggested by our membership include:
Media and Performing the Body
Construction of Sex, Sexuality, and Gender in Popular Culture
Cultural Icons of Feminism and Queer (Mothers, Divas, Monsters, Superheroes, etc…)
The Body and Representations of Femininity
Female Sexuality in the Theatre and Media Representations of Ethnic Sexualities and ‘Otherness’ (dis/ability, ethnicity, queer, etc..)
Eroticism as Power Race and Gender in Media
Class Differences in Feminist and Queer Communities
Feminist Beliefs of Religion, Spiritual, Secular, and Sexuality
Feminist Activism and Pedagogy on Immigration and Marriage Equality
The Conference Committee encourages proposals that incorporate innovative formats, numerous voices, partnerships and active dialogue. You are urged to go beyond the traditional 3-speaker presentation for seminars, roundtables, performances, workshops, and poster sessions.
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Thanks for letting us know about El Chicano - is this the "day the music died" for Latinos?
QEPD. Bobby Espinosa? ¡Presente!
May El Chicano RIP and always be remembered for all he has done for the Chicano community.
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