<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-x_page" title="Page 1"><div class="gmail-x_layoutArea"><div class="gmail-x_column"><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">Performing Global Crises </span></p><div style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span></div><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">An
 interdisciplinary conference hosted by The Performance of the Real 
Research Theme at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand</span></p><p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">30</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;vertical-align:4pt">th </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">November - 2</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;vertical-align:4pt">nd </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">December 2022 </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri""><br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri""><br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">Crisis has characterised contemporary lives in many ways </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">– </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">as
 we witness, experience, perform, and respond to entangled health, 
political, social, and environmental disasters. For example, in the past
 few years, the Covid-19 pandemic has affected virtually every area of 
our lives. Individual, local, national, and global responses have been 
played out and performed in the media, on social media, and in embodied 
social landscapes. Scientists have become the new celebrities, and 
politicians have risen and fallen according to their Covid management 
performances. The virus itself has also performed, taking on different 
guises as it mutates to extend its life and efficacy. Zoom and other 
similar platforms have become the new mode of communication for many, 
generating new forms of visibility, intimate digital surveillance, and 
networked sociality. Many people have been marginalised or further 
marginalised by the pandemic, by inequalities in access to digital 
technologies as well as health technologies. At the same time there has 
never been a time when communication, miscommunication, disinformation </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">– </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">about vaccines, mandates, and more </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">– </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">have
 been so fraught and politicised. As all-encompassing as the pandemic 
has seemed at times, it has been eclipsed in some respects, more 
recently, by public attention to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which 
is emerging as the most visible war in history. With visibility comes 
multiple modes of performance and performativity, including competing 
deep fakes, and another arena for the performance of global leaders, 
politicians, and the public. Meanwhile, the slow violence of Climate 
Change continues to devastate communities, nations, and species. The 
Climate itself, specific ecosystems and landscapes, and non-human 
creatures, have been acting as key performers in diverse scientific, 
popular, and media-scapes, garnering global attention as harbingers for a
 harrowing future, even amidst those who doubt its existence. <br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif">This
 conference will explore the way that these multi-layered global crises 
have been and continue to be performed, contested, and mediated across 
all strata of communication and society. <br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><br aria-hidden="true"></span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">We
 encourage contributions relating (but not limited) to the following 
topics and issues connected to the performance and performativity of 
crises: </span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><ul style="list-style-type:none"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><li style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><br></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><ul><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Climate Emergency and public performances of responsibility </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Protest action and the performance of dissent </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Digital technologies of visibility and surveillance </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">News, information, and the politics of truth </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Precarity, marginalization, and inequality in times of crises </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Art, literature, and creativity for wellbeing and resilience amidst crises </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Leadership, celebrity, and the public performance of power and trust amidst crises </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Public communication of science (virology, climatology, etc.) </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Spectacularisation of war, violence, and the military </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Participatory/symbolic performances of political relations: allyship, solidarity, fear, or threat </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decolonisation and indigeneity in responses to crises </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Empathy, care, and witnessing: mediated responses to the suffering of others </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gendered experiences of/in crises: labour, feminism, care ethics </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Politicised bodies/selves: intersectional views of gender, disability, race, and the good life </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Racialised and spatialised performances - mapping and tracing crises through bodies </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Multispecies, posthuman, and more-than-</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">human worlds: living with ‘others’ through crises </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wellbeing and affect amidst crises: hypervigilance, anxiety, apathy, compassion fatigue </span></li><li class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Social imaginations of the future: hope, optimism, connection and connectivity, the</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> utopian/dystopian, apocalyptic visions, and ‘doom’ </span></li></ul></blockquote></div><div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail-x_page" title="Page 2"><div class="gmail-x_layoutArea"><div class="gmail-x_column"><ul style="list-style-type:none"><li style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><p><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Conference and Paper Format: </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">This
 will be a hybrid conference that allows people placed in Aotearoa New 
Zealand and nearby to attend in person, and for internationals - if they
 cannot travel - to attend online via Zoom. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">In
 addition to conventional 20-minute papers, we also invite presentations
 with a performance or creative or workshop component. </span></p></li><li style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><p><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Submitting an Abstract: </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Please submit a 200-250 word abstract of your contribution and a 100-word biography for each presenter by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">16 September 2022</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">.
 Please send us your abstract as a Word document. Use your surname in 
the document title. Please clearly indicate the title of your 
presentation, the nature and timing of your presentation e.g. 20 minute 
spoken paper with Powerpoint, as well as your full name (first name, 
surname) and institutional affiliation (if relevant). Please send your 
abstracts or any enquiries to the Theme administrator at </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:performance.real@otago.ac.nz">performance.real@otago.ac.nz</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">. </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Accepted delegates must confirm their attendance by completing registration and payment by </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">October 31, 2022</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">. </span></p></li><li style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"><p><br aria-hidden="true"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"></span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Travel bursaries for Postgraduate Students: </span></p><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">There
 are also a limited number of small travel bursaries available for 
attending the conference. Please contact the Theme administrator at </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="mailto:performance.real@otago.ac.nz">performance.real@otago.ac.nz</a> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">for more details. </span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><pre><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">________________________________________________________________________________
</span></pre><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;color:rgb(35,31,32)">About the Performance of the Real Research Theme </span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">The
 Performance of the Real is a University of Otago funded 
interdisciplinary Research Theme. The project investigates what it is 
about representations and performances of the real that make them 
particularly compelling and pervasive in our current age. At its core is
 the study of how performance/performativity, in its many cultural, 
aesthetic, political and social forms and discourses, represents, 
critiques, stages, and constructs/reconstructs the real, as well as the 
ethical, social, and form-related issues involved in such acts. </span></p><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif"></span><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Website: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real">http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real</a> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri";font-weight:700;font-style:italic;color:rgb(35,31,32)"></span></p></li><li><p><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Journal: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri Light","Helvetica Light",sans-serif;color:rgb(5,99,193)"><a href="http://www.performancereal.org">http://www.performancereal.org</a> </span></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div>