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Theatrical Grammars of Diversity and Difference: ASTR Online
The presidency of Barack Obama has certainly not borne out early claims that the U.S. had arrived at a “post-race” moment with his election, yet critical discourse around th...
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The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel
900 Rene Levesque Boulevard East
Montreal, Quebec Canada
November 17-20, 2007
Download a .pdf of the entire conference schedule here.
Wednesday, 11/16
Thursday, 11/17
Friday, 11/18
Saturday,...
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ASTR/TLA/Conference
“Economies of Theatre”
November 17 – 20, 2011
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel – Montreal, Quebec - Canada
If you haven't registered for the ASTR conference yet, you can still register on si...
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By Kimi Johnson
The GSC is busily working on several initiatives in order to provide greater support to graduates both at the yearly ASTR Conference and throughout the year. These efforts include changes to the GSC Ambassador Program, the expans...
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By Tom Lindblade
2011 was the year of Media Studies’ encroachment upon traditional performance and arts-related disciplines, and this encroachment is nowhere more apparent than in high-visibility best-selling tomes. Jaron Lanier markets his...
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By Harvey Young
“We imagine ourselves as sole, isolated humanists laboring away in our carrel without any connection or indebtedness to (or participation in) a larger network of thinking that actually puts our ideas into the form that makes...
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By James Peck
“I know most of you were one or two years old when this happened, but I was living in New York then and I remember...”
In March of this year, a few minutes into my morning section of THR 212 Performance Studies I he...
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By Charlotte M. Canning
There is no doubt that this is a challenging time to be in higher education. Budgets are being cut, hostile public voices are questioning the value of a university degree, “research” is being demonized as a dis...
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By Rachel Bowditch
Almost a decade ago, Michael Shanks and Mike Pearson’s Theatre/Archaeology (2001), Dwight Conquergood’s Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research (2002) and Jill Dolan’s Producing Knowledges That...
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Research Mentoring: A Workshop for Faculty Mentors of PhDs
Sponsored by ASTR
16-17 November 2011, Fairmont Hotel, Montreal
We can structure innovative graduate programs, offer terrific courses, and recruit superior students, but if mentorship i...
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By Rhonda Blair
I hope all of you are heading into summers that are productive and restorative. I continue to be rewarded by working in this office, and am regularly so invigorated and awakened by the work you all do. Now some news...
Ex...
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Applications (or nominations) are invited for the position of Editor of ASTR Online, the web-based publication and presence of American Society for Theatre Research. The new Editor will officially begin in January of 2011, serving for two years. Editorial...
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Jeffrey Hamilton Richards passed away on Memorial Day, May 30, 2011, at age 62 after a hard-fought battle with brain cancer. Jeff was a wonderful scholar of American theatre and drama. His works included, Theatre Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor...
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Eugene Mersereau Waith, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, died in New Haven on October 25, 2007. A memorial service for him was held at Yale on January 13, 2008.
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By Scott Magelssen and Dorothy Chansky
The ASTR Executive Committee has been working with the membership survey report delivered by the Ad Hoc Committee on Membership Assessment at the November 2010 meeting in Seattle.
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The election of officers for the 2011 - 2014 term has concluded. Wendy Arons, Secretary of ASTR, and the rest of the Executive Committee are pleased to announce the results of the election. The terms of the new officers will begin at the conclusion of t...
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Video Title: "Dramaturgy for a New Generation: Bringing Middle America to the Middle East"
Submitted by: Jacob Hellman, Dramaturg
Videography by: Elianna Rosenschein & Liel Zahavi-Asa
Abstract
“Dram...
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You may notice changes in a couple of ASTR's awards and grants. To improve access and respond to the realities of the membership and the profession, I'd like to bring the following to your attention:
ASTR Collaborative Research Award:
The Domest...
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By Kimi Johnson
The GSC is excited to be starting a new year and to continue to find ways to support graduates in their work as researchers, teachers, and job-seekers. Below you will find information on ways to get involved and graduate con...
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By Rhonda Blair
The big event of the past quarter was, of course, the conference. Held in Seattle and co-sponsored with the Congress on Research in Dance, this year's gathering was a great success. There were fine plenaries, a great range of work...
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