Seeking Additional Participants for DTaP Sessions
The ATHE conference platform has re-opened for individual submissions to sessions seeking additional participants. The deadline to submit a proposal to join an existing session is April 1.
Follow this link to find the submission page as well as the full list of 35(!) virtual and in-person sessions looking to get more people involved:
Also see this document highlighting the sessions DTAP is sponsoring, plus a couple more that may be of particular interest.
If you know someone who would make a great addition to one of these sessions, please get this info to their inbox and encourage them to submit a proposal! We look forward to hearing from you!
Follow this link to find the submission page as well as the full list of 35(!) virtual and in-person sessions looking to get more people involved:
Also see this document highlighting the sessions DTAP is sponsoring, plus a couple more that may be of particular interest.
If you know someone who would make a great addition to one of these sessions, please get this info to their inbox and encourage them to submit a proposal! We look forward to hearing from you!
2024 Call for Proposals
For the 2024 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, to be held at the Loews Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia from August 1-4, 2024.
With the 2024 conference theme, “Revisioning the Story,” each focus group has been invited to use this period of organizational transition to reflect upon, reevaluate, and redefine: “What is ATHE’s story?” We’ve been invited to re-envision what ATHE is to its members, to rehearse new possibilities, to shape new narratives together. The Disability, Theatre, and Performance (DTAP) Focus Group aims for our conference programming to provide a vital space that prioritizes the scholarship, lived experiences, and bodyminds of disabled, mad, crip, chronically ill, and neurodivergent theatre artists, scholars, cultural organizers, and teachers. As we enter our second year, DTAP’s story is just beginning, and it is one that can only be co-authored in community. For the 2024 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference this August, we invite individual and group proposals for sessions that aim to…
Please submit proposals by January 5, 2024 to [email protected] with your session/presentation title in the subject line.
Proposals should include:
Notes on the submission and selection process:
DTAP has set our focus group’s submission deadline early. The conference planners will curate panels from individual proposals and coordinate with other ATHE focus groups to submit proposals for co-sponsored sessions when relevant. The conference submission platform closes on January 16. You will be notified of acceptance by the end of February. In March, ATHE will have a second round of submissions for accepted sessions seeking additional participants.
Questions? Contact DTAP Conference Planners Nicolas Shannon Savard and Akhila Vimal at [email protected].
Links to Additional information:
Open Google Doc: See what other folks are brainstorming and add your own ideas
FAQs for folks new to ATHE
Hotel/Conference Center Accessibility Info
With the 2024 conference theme, “Revisioning the Story,” each focus group has been invited to use this period of organizational transition to reflect upon, reevaluate, and redefine: “What is ATHE’s story?” We’ve been invited to re-envision what ATHE is to its members, to rehearse new possibilities, to shape new narratives together. The Disability, Theatre, and Performance (DTAP) Focus Group aims for our conference programming to provide a vital space that prioritizes the scholarship, lived experiences, and bodyminds of disabled, mad, crip, chronically ill, and neurodivergent theatre artists, scholars, cultural organizers, and teachers. As we enter our second year, DTAP’s story is just beginning, and it is one that can only be co-authored in community. For the 2024 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference this August, we invite individual and group proposals for sessions that aim to…
- facilitate nuanced, thought-provoking explorations of the multifaceted, interdisciplinary, intersectional landscape of disability aesthetics, theory, and identity in performance.
- critically examine the narratives that shape our culture and our individual experiences in the classroom, rehearsal studio, publishing house, office, and on stage.
- offer possible revisions, centering disability perspectives and agency while recognizing how ableist narratives are intertwined with white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, and colonialism.
- share and rehearse strategies for challenging ableist language, practices, and institutional norms; breaking down barriers to access; and fostering more inclusive and accessible theatre spaces.
- create opportunities to build supportive community among disabled artists and scholars and coalition across marginalized groups in our field.
Please submit proposals by January 5, 2024 to [email protected] with your session/presentation title in the subject line.
Proposals should include:
- The names, email addresses, institutional affiliations (if applicable), and presentation titles (if applicable) of each presenter, facilitator, and/or moderator.
- An abstract describing the purpose, format (paper, panel, roundtable, working group, workshop, performance, something else?), and intended audience for your presentation. Abstracts may be submitted in written or audio format (200-300 words or 2-3 minutes).
- Estimated length of the activity/presentation. Note: conference sessions at ATHE are 90 minutes long; in order to make the most of opportunities for scholars within this timeframe, the maximum permitted time allotted per presenter will be 20 minutes.
- Any A/V equipment requests or accessibility needs.
Notes on the submission and selection process:
DTAP has set our focus group’s submission deadline early. The conference planners will curate panels from individual proposals and coordinate with other ATHE focus groups to submit proposals for co-sponsored sessions when relevant. The conference submission platform closes on January 16. You will be notified of acceptance by the end of February. In March, ATHE will have a second round of submissions for accepted sessions seeking additional participants.
Questions? Contact DTAP Conference Planners Nicolas Shannon Savard and Akhila Vimal at [email protected].
Links to Additional information:
Open Google Doc: See what other folks are brainstorming and add your own ideas
FAQs for folks new to ATHE
Hotel/Conference Center Accessibility Info