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*Tactical Bodies:***

*The Choreography of Non-Dancing Subjects*

A joint conference of the Congress On Research in Dance (CORD) Special
Topics

and Dance Under Construction (the University of California Dance Studies
graduate student conference)**

*Keynote speaker: *Gabriele Brandstetter, Freie Universität Berlin**

*Closing comments: *Susan Foster, UCLA Department of World Arts and
Cultures/Dance**

April 19-21, 2013

University of California Los Angeles

Call For Papers**

*Tactical Bodies* will interrogate the possibilities and problematics of
choreographic analysis. Choreographers, dance researchers and others
have extended the concept of choreography to works that do not necessarily
involve danced movement, challenging the assumption that choreography must
relate to dance and vice versa. In scholarly and other projects, the value
of choreography as an approach and a means of analysis has been
demonstrated across cultural sites as well as in a variety of disciplinary
domains. Yet interdisciplinary exchange is rare both because of the manner
in which the academic disciplines are organized in the institution, and
because of the marginal position that dance has historically held as an art
form and area of study.

*Tactical Bodies* provides an opportunity to enrich the discourse
surrounding “choreography” on the one hand, and on the other, to ask what
the concept does in disciplines other than dance studies. We invite
submissions from researchers in disciplines such as performance studies,
curatorial studies, comparative literature, art history and criticism,
ethnic studies, gender studies, LGBTQ studies, disability studies,
post-colonial studies, urban planning, education, and history, as well as
art practitioners, curators, social justice activists, and scholars
studying human behavior in the health and other sciences.

We seek proposals that examine how choreography exists in multiple spaces
and also proposals that consider unexpected subjects–in short, how the
movements of bodies and objects inform our daily social, political and
economic lives. Choreographic terms such as *position*, *locality*, *
direction*, *pace*,*inclusion*, and *exclusion*, and the myriad ways in
which *movement* and *stillness* are expressed lend themselves to
theorizations of power and difference. We look forward to offering a forum
for textual and performative presentations that explore the function of
choreography within and beyond the context of dance with a focus on
activity that is not normally conceived of as dancing.

Possible themes include:

   – The choreography of curating/Choreography as curating
   – Choreography of spectatorship
   – Arts production: the invisible labor of moving bodies in theatres,
   museums and festivals
   – Choreography of torture and punishment
   – Migration, apartheid, social and geographical lines of separation and
   motion
   – Mobilization, insurrection, and occupation in electoral politics,
   protest and revolution
   – Colonial and post-colonial maneuvers in global and local choreography
   – Planning, urban movement, and architectural spatial arrangement
   – Moving pedagogy in the choreography of the classroom
   – Movement in the context of visual art
   – Movement of non-human phenomena
   – Choreographing meaning through the rhythm of the text
   – Movement as a trope in theoretical discourse

*Genres of Participation*

We invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme
through papers (both conventional and performative) and practice-oriented
presentations. Work that utilizes and/or analyzes multiple mediums such as
dance, film, text, and other performance genres is encouraged. Proposals
for panels, working groups, workshops, and roundtable discussions are also
welcome.

Submission Guidelines

-Abstract (300 words max.) of your paper, presentation*, or proposed theme
for a panel, working group, workshop or roundtable discussion†.

-A half page bibliography for your research.

-Full name, contact information, institutional affiliation or professional
status, and brief biography (approx. 100 words).

-Specify whether a dance studio or lecture setting would best suit your
work in the comments section of the form.

-A paper/presentation cannot exceed 20 minutes. A panel, working group, or
round table discussion cannot exceed one hour with an additional 30 minutes
for open questions.

**** Performance-as-Research Proposals* should include a critical
description of the practice-based research engaging in artistic,
theoretical, epistemological or political themes relating to the
conference. Means of inviting critical engagement with the research should
also be indicated. Set up/strike for such contributions must take no more
than 5 minutes, and have minimal staging needs as no technical support will
be provided beyond a microphone and projection onto a screen as per a
conventional paper presentation. All presentations will be subject to the
20-minute time limit, and may be scheduled on a panel with conventional
scholarly papers.

†* **Panel, Working Group, Workshop and Roundtable Discussion Proposals *should
provide the full name, contact information, institutional affiliation or
professional status, and brief biography (approx. 100 words) for each
participant. Note that each panelist seeking to present must submit an
abstract (300 words max.) of their own work along with the abstract for the
panel’s theme.

For online submissions of proposals: Go to
http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php

Submission deadline: *November 16th, 2012*.

Submission Instructions:

   1. Go to  <http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php>
   http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php and click “Make
   a Submission”
   2. Complete the submission form. Be sure to include your 300 word or
   less abstract on the form.       This section should contain the abstract
   for the panel’s theme for Organized Panel, Working Group, Workshop or
   Roundtable Discussion proposals.
   3. Attach your bibliography in the “File Upload” field.
   4. In the comments box, please specify any special requirements you may
   have.
   5. Click “Make Submission” to submit your form.

If you have additional supporting documents to upload, please follow the
instructions below.

   1. Navigate to the submission homepage
(<http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php>
   http://www.pmswebreg.info/cord2013/openconf/openconf.php).
   2. Select “Upload File”
   3. Select the upload type (Bio, Bibliography, or Supporting Docs).
   4. Enter your submission ID and password and attach your file.
   Click “Upload File”.
   5. You may repeat this process to add up to two more additional files.

-Call for Proposals-Deadline November 26, 2012*

This year the conference theme is Queering Spaces/Queering Borders which is
likely to intersect with many disciplines. Please consider proposing a
paper, panel, workshop, exhibit, or performance.

Also, please forward this to colleagues or students who you think might be
interested presenting their work at the conference in April. We invite a
diverse representation of approaches and participants, including faculty,
staff, graduate students, community members and undergraduate students.
 All formats will be considered, including paper presentations (15
minutes), panels (60 to 75 minutes), workshops, exhibitions, film
screenings, and performances.

Elaborations on the theme *Queering Spaces/Queering Borders *might include:

* borders: legal, cultural, faith-based, social barriers and opportunities
for queer bodies/voices

* queer discussions of race, disability, ethnicity, class

* crossroads and borderlands: queering immigration/emigration

* queer rights and voices in the classroom, health care, behavioral health,
military, and workplaces

* queering gender borders, identities, spaces

* queer bodies: living in, caring for marked bodies

* transgender, gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or intersexed action or voices

* queer activism: means and/or outcomes

* investigations of shame, privilege, home, space, reclamation

* queer youth/older adults: lived experience and activism

* queer representations, expressions and cultures in art, literature,
craft, and performance

*The deadline for submissions is November 26, 2012*. The full CFP is
attached. You may also visit our website at: wgss.unca.edu/queerconference

Please email individual paper abstracts (up to 500 words), panel and
workshop proposals
(up to 700 words) and other proposals (up to 1000 words when appropriate
include
images, samples, or clips). All proposals should include a title for the
presentation, panel or
performance, type of format preferred, length of time preferred,
audio/visual and accessibility
needs as well as full names, email addresses and affiliations of all the
authors.

Send your completed abstract/proposal to: qsconf@unca.edu.

Registration: To register, please visit wgss.unca.edu/queerconference and
fill out and mail
the registration form. All speakers must register for the conference. Early
Registration (due
February 25, 2013) is $75 for faculty, $65 for graduate students, and $45
for undergraduate
students (includes breakfasts and lunches). Full Registration (after
February 25th and on site
at the conference) is $85 for faculty, $75 for graduate students, and $55
for undergraduate
students (includes breakfasts and lunches). Daily community passes (to
attend sessions and
speakers only) will be available at the conference ($20); the fee to attend
only a keynote
address will be $10.

Keynote Presenters::

Maureen Seaton (teacher, poet, memoir writer) will present on Thursday
evening.
More about Maureen, http://www.maureenseaton.com/Bio_Biblio.html

Jos� E. Mu�oz (author, performer, teacher, theorist) will present on Friday
evening.
More about Jos�, http://admin.tisch.nyu.edu/object/MunozJ.html

Adela C. Licona (author, activist, teacher, theorist) will present on
Saturday morning.
More about Adela, http://www.u.arizona.edu/~aclicona/

Kickoff Plenary Session: Thursday, April 4th
“Amendment One: Where Do We Go From Here?” Panelists will include Rev.
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, Executive Director of the Campaign for Southern
Equality;
Bishop Donagrant L. McCluney, North Carolina Field Organizer for
Southerners on New
Ground; and UNC Asheville student Kaley Fry, a queer spawn activist and a
Women, Gender
and Sexuality Studies major who is currently an intern for COLAGE.

For additional information, visit our website: wgss.unca.edu/queerconferenceor
address questions to Lori Horvitz, lhorvitz@unca.edu (828-251-6590) or Amy
Lanou,
alanou@unca.edu (828-250-2317).

Amy Joy Lanou and Lori Horvitz, Co-chairs of the Queer Studies Conference
Organizing Committee