<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Dance Under
Construction XIII:</span></b><span style=""> <i>Re-imagining
Archives in Motion</i> will be hosted at UC Riverside, Friday & Saturday,
April 13 & 14, 2012.</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"><span style="">In this email:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="">Conference Description</span></div>
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</span></span></span><b><span style="">Keynote
Speaker Announcement</span></b></div>
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"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt;">
</span></span></span><span style="">Call for Papers and Performances (<b>February 24<sup>th</sup>
deadline</b>)</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"><b><span style="">Conference
Description<br>
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Dance Under Construction (DUC) is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting
graduate student work theorizing dance, performance, and the body. It
originated as an initiative of the graduate students of UCLA’s Department of
World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by various UC campuses. DUC has
grown to an annual student-run event for dance and performance scholars, as
well as those in related disciplines. Designed for the development of
intellectual inquiry in a supportive and rigorous environment, the conference
offers students a chance to explore through experimental modes of research and
performance. This interdisciplinary event provides a rare and important
discursive space for the stimulation and presentation of cutting-edge research
in topics related to the body as a site of cultural identification.<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></div>
<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"><b style="">Keynote Speaker
Announcement</b></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal">We are thrilled to announce that Susan Manning, Professor of
English, Theater, and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, will be
our Keynote Speaker. Her address is titled “Archives in Collision” and will
focus on how discrepancies, gaps, and conflict between different archives<span style=""> </span>(oral, historical, print, visual and
embodied) often provide historical illumination. The keynote speech will take
place in the early evening of Saturday, April 14, 2012. </div>
<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"> </div>
<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal">Participants are also invited to attend the keynote address
of the UCR English Department Graduate Student Conference, (dis)junctions,
titled “Narratives Mediated,” which is taking place on the same weekend. The
keynote speaker is Dr. Leo Braudy of the University of Southern California
Department of English. His address will take place at 5:00 pm on Friday, April
13, 2012. </div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal"><b style="">Call for Papers and
Proposals</b></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">“The archive” may evoke a
concrete collection of books, articles, and mircofilm contained within a
library or museum, yet digital media have allowed remote access to archives to
become increasingly commonplace. At the same time, several legal systems have
begun to recognize indigenous song and dance as legal evidence, highlighting what
performers have known all along—that performance is also a way to archive and
analyze the human experience. A near-mythic topic in dance research assigned
with as much scholarly primacy as perplexity, "the archive" and
theoretical notions thereof continue to complicate methods and modes of dance
inquiry concerned with records of the past.</div>
<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style=""> </span>Charged
with the task to shape the contours of dance studies documentation and
discourse, this graduate student conference seeks to explore constantly
changing notions of the archive. Through paper presentations, performances,
workshops, and working groups, the conference will probe the relationship
between source materials and uses of them, trouble the dichotomy between
written and performed work, and re-imagine scholars’ and performers’
interactions with repositories of information.<span style=""> </span></div>
<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"><span style=""> </span>We
encourage participants to think about the many forms that an archive could
take, whether digital, embodied, in memory, or in daily life, and to consider
how each of these archival manifestations impact “the” archive. Can the archive
be enacted or performed or must it be tangible and stable? How can the acts of
performing and archiving interrelate? How are identity politics tied to
archival creation and use? How do live performances change (or what remains)
when they are documented and archived? How has digitization impacted the
permanence of archives, and how are these new digital archives policed? </div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;">Proposals might address the
following issues/questions:</div>
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</span></span></span>access to archives and issues of power</div>
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</span></span></span>issues of copyright and performance</div>
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</span></span></span>re-imagining “the” archive</div>
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</span></span></span>how archives can be used and enacted</div>
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</span></span></span>issues of permanence, ephemerality, and
instability in archives</div>
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</span></span></span>nostalgia and the archive</div>
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</span></span></span>memory as a form of archive</div>
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</span></span></span>capturing the live performance</div>
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</span></span></span>bodily archives</div>
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</span></span></span>reconstructing dances from archival materials</div>
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</span></span></span>body politics of archives and archival work</div>
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</span></span></span>economic aspects to archival work—both access to
and creation of archives</div>
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</span></span></span>regulating the digital archive</div>
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</span></span></span>issues of translation, whether cultural, linguistic,
or otherwise</div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;"><span style=""> </span>We
invite broad and innovative interpretations of the conference theme through
papers and performances. 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
especially welcome. We would like this conference to be an opportunity for
graduate students to come together, collaborate, form connections, and receive
feedback on their work, regardless of the state of their research. It is
understood that all of the research presented will be, in some sense, in
progress. <span style=""> </span>DUC aspires to foster a
community and network of support for dancers and scholars, so please come
excited to talk about your work and to engage with the work of others.</div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;"><b><u>Guidelines for Submitting Proposals</u></b></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;"><span style=""> </span>To
apply, submit an abstract (250-300 words) of your paper, performance, or
project. Please include your full name, contact information, institutional
affiliation, brief biography (approximately 100 words), and indicate all
technological and space requirements. Specify in your application whether a
performance space or classroom setting would best suit your work, and please
plan not to exceed a time limit of 20 minutes for a presentation or performance
or up to one hour for each working group or workshop. Applications should be
submitted in .pdf format to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">dance</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">_</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">under</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">_</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">construction</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:dance_under_construction@yahoo.com"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none;">@</span></a><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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will be sent upon receiving your proposal. </div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;">Please title the subject line of your
application e-mail as follows: <b>DUC Proposal – (Your Last Name) – (Your
presentation type, e.g. “Paper Presentation” / “Performance” / “Workshop” /
”Working Group”)</b></div>
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<div class="yiv1683027852MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt;margin-left:0in;text-align:justify;">An applicant may submit ONLY ONE proposal
for ONE of the presentation categories described above. </div>
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"><span style="">There
will be a registration fee of $25 to present at or attend the conference. </span></div>
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"><span style="">Stay
tuned for more information concerning registration, lodging and airfare, and
other DUC-related activities happening at UC Riverside that weekend. </span></div></div></body></html>