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<h2>N.B. See below: <a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2327" target="_blank" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal">Transgressions and Translations in Early Modern Spain</a></h2>
<p>ASTR is delighted to announce that the call for submissions to Working Groups for the 2016 ASTR Annual Conference in Minneapolis is officially open. <a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2F%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions" target="_blank">This link</a> will direct you to the website, where you can view all the calls for individual working sessions on this year’s theme, "Trans-."</p>
<p>Please note, that you must apply online through the ASTR website <a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fpage%2F16%5FWGSubmissions" target="_blank">here</a>. The form allows you to select up to three working groups, in order of your preference, and provides space to allow you to comment how your proposal might fit with each of those working groups. Please note that a call for performance proposals, separate from these working sessions will follow shortly.</p>
<p><strong>The deadline for receipt of proposals is June 1.</strong><br>
We are very excited by a fabulous list of Working Groups this year:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%231" target="_blank">Adaptation, Translation, and Visibility</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%232" target="_blank">Amateur Acts: Performance and the Unsanctioned</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%233" target="_blank">Beyond the State: Performances of Trans-Bodies in
Central-Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Russia</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%234" target="_blank">Bodies out in the Open, Mourning as Transgression: Necropolitics and Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%235" target="_blank">Ecology and/of/in Performance Working Group</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%236" target="_blank">History Has Its Eyes on You: Musical Theatre’s Moments of Transition</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%237" target="_blank">Methodological Transfiguration: Transforming Artist-Scholar Relationships in Indigenous Performance Research</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%238" target="_blank">Performance In The Age Of Transparency: Biopolitics, Biotechnology & Biogenetics</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%239" target="_blank">Performing War: Acts of Transgression and Transformation</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2310" target="_blank">Puppetry and Material Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2311" target="_blank">Race and Performance in Transnational East Asia</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2312" target="_blank">Resisting the Margins: Positioning Transgender Performance Center-Stage</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2313" target="_blank">Shakespearean Performance Research Group</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2314" target="_blank">Site-Based Theatre as a Trans-Contextual Experience</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2315" target="_blank">The Future in the Present: The Transtemporalities of Minoritarian Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2316" target="_blank">The Transglobal and Transmedial Eighteenth Century</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2317" target="_blank">The transitive is transformative: Opportunities and Constraints in Performative Social Practice</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2318" target="_blank">Theater and Transmedia</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2319" target="_blank">Theatre and Real Estate</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2320" target="_blank">Theorizing from the South: Contemporary Theater and Criticism in Latin America and Transections: Performance Studies in/from the Global South</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2321" target="_blank">Theorizing Transtemporality and Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2322" target="_blank">Training/Trans—: Performance Training as Translation, Transfer, Transformation, and Transition</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2323" target="_blank">Trans Methods for Trans Materials</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2324" target="_blank">Transfeminisms: Translating, Transgressing, and
Transforming Feminisms</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2325" target="_blank">Transfigured Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2326" target="_blank">Transfusions and Transductions: Science and Performance as Permeable Disciplines</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2327" target="_blank">Transgressions and Translations in Early Modern Spain</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2328" target="_blank">Transhistorical and Transdisciplinary: Emotions and Affect Across Time, Space, and (Scholarly) Traditions</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2329" target="_blank">Transient Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2330" target="_blank">Translating beyond text: bodies, cultures, epistemologies</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2331" target="_blank">Transmedia Fan Culture: Performers across Platforms and their Audiences</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2332" target="_blank">Transplants: Food/Theatre/Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2333" target="_blank">Transposition & Transformation: Medieval Performance in Contemporary Research and Production</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2334" target="_blank">Trans-racial Performance, Identity, and Belonging in the 21st century</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2335" target="_blank">Transspecies Performance</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2336" target="_blank">Transverting Whiteness</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2337" target="_blank">Traumatic Structures Working Group: Trans-forming Trauma?</a><br>
<a href="http://www.astr.org/link.asp?e=garcia@denison.edu&job=2372654&ymlink=5202350&finalurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eastr%2Eorg%2Fgeneral%2Fcustom%2Easp%3Fpage%3D16%5FWGSessions%2338" target="_blank">Video Games and Gaming: Towards a Transmedial Analysis</a></p>
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<p>We look forward to receiving your proposals.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br>
Josh Abrams, Jen Parker-Starbuck, and the ASTR
Conference Committee</p>
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