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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We would be grateful if you could share this CFP for our upcoming conference, Performing Global Crises, with any peers, colleagues or students you think might be interested.<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Alex Wilson<br>
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<p style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real" title="http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real ">Performance of the Real Theme</a><br>
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<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
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<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
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif;">Crisis has characterised contemporary lives in many ways
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</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
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif;">about vaccines, mandates, and more
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</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.
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Protest action and the performance of dissent
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Digital technologies of visibility and surveillance
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">News, information, and the politics of truth
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Public communication of science (virology, climatology, etc.)
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Spectacularisation of war, violence, and the military
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<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
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Decolonisation and indigeneity in responses to crises
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<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
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<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 style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0)" class="elementToProof">
<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
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<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>
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<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
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<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.
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<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
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<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);">.
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<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:
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<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
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<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
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<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.
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<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);">http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real </span><span style="font-size:11.000000pt;font-family:'Calibri';font-weight:700;font-style:italic;color:rgb(13.700000%, 12.200000%, 12.500000%)"></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri Light", "Helvetica Light", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">http://www.performancereal.org
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