Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id iBHGa4s02700; Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:36:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:36:04 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <s1c2c33c.012@mailsrv21.gsu.edu> Errors-To: listowner@nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Daphne Greenberg" <ALCDGG@langate.gsu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:3099] Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference-Proposals Due 1/17/05 X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Status: O Content-Length: 4794 Lines: 108 CALL FOR PROPOSALS- due 1/17/05 CREATIVE TOOLS FOR CRITICAL TIMES AMNESIA ? WITNESS ? INTERVENTION The 11th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference Co-hosted by the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed and Applied Theatre Arts, Los Angeles (CTO/ATA/LA) May 29, 30 & 31, 2005 Hollywood Renaissance Hotel Los Angeles, California - USA General Conference Call for Proposals (CFP) We have designated a focus of exploration for each day of the 3 days of the 2005 PTO conference: Amnesia, Witness and Intervention as described below. We are calling for papers that address any of these three themes. We also invite proposals for presentations and workshops on all aspects of PTO -- application in various communities or around particular issues, exploration of particular techniques, techniques that compliment the PTO oeuvre, and/or your current critical relationship to PTO as a change-agent. May 29, 2005: "Amnesia" This day of the conference is dedicated to the ability of PTO practices to question or collude with cultural givens. Contemporary trauma theory has suggested that violent events in our lives create experiences of forgetting, fragmentation, and numbness rather than memory and narrative. Instead of an ongoing relationship with the past, trauma produces a form of amnesia from which we need to recover, and theorists have begun to ask how widespread such a phenomenon might be given the violent history of the Americas. While Theater and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed were designed to awaken people from fatalism, educators, spectactors and jokers themselves might also be caught in a cultural vortex of amnesia. To what degree is PTO challenging silences or assumptions about transformation, identity, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, or nation, already embedded in surrounding cultures? What additional methodologies might be combined with PTO techniques to enhance its ability to rupture the givens of dominant cultures? May 30, 2005: "Witness" We are dedicating this day of the conference to the aesthetics and politics of witnessing. While the notion of witnessing is integral to PTO work, it has not been rigorously investigated and problematized within PTO discourse. As spect-actors and co-participants we are all witnesses to each others' stories, images, failures, frustrations, and desires. What expectations do protagonists have of their witnesses? What kind of responses are meaningful, and why? When are the responses irrelevant or even harmful, and why? What fears, questions, and needs are witnesses themselves grappling with? And how might investigating these issues enhance the liberatory potential of the work we do? We seek proposals that address the above issues as well as witnessing in relation to trauma, audience receptivity, the law, testimony, healing, reconciliation work, the silent witness, events without witnesses, and forgiveness. We invite proposals that look at witnessing in relation to all PTO endeavors -- pedagogy, popular education, activism, therapy, theatre for social change, and participatory democracy. May 31, 2005: "Intervention" This final day of the conference invites the creation of new cultures that critically examine existing models and offer new paradigms of praxis through the application of PTO. Intervention suggests a "coming between," yet discourse on intervention within the PTO community has often placed emphasis almost exclusively on a deliberate and direct restoration of agency for those who have been objectified and denied autonomies. How is the "loss of agency" determined, by whom, and under what criteria? Similarly, what is meant by "restoration of agency?" How may we include thinking of intervention in other ways? How might we newly imagine a restoration of agency, and what keeps us from doing so? For example, what is the "space in between" and how do we navigate journeys there? How do we intervene into our own lives, into notions of habituated thinking and rhetorics of power, or even into the PTO techniques themselves? What calls us as liberation artists and educators to "come between" situations of conflict and how do our methodologies support or hinder our perception of the problem at hand? Deadline for Proposals: January 17, 2005 FOR MORE DETAILS AND TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ONLINE, PLEASE GO TO: http://www.unomaha.edu/~pto/conference.htm Daphne Greenberg Assistant Professor Educational Psych. & Special Ed. Georgia State University P.O. Box 3679 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu Daphne Greenberg Associate Director Center for the Study of Adult Literacy Georgia State University P.O. Box 3977 Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977 phone: 404-651-0127 fax:404-651-4901 dgreenberg@gsu.edu
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