Please note that overnight between Saturday and Sunday, November 6 and 7, the clocks go back an hour in North America. Please use this tool throughout the conference to keep track of when events are happening in your time zone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
Catch up on conference content via MURAL: https://app.mural.co/invitation/mural/exploros/1628179737971?sender=u60281833747dfb3ac8907211&key=c3a73d78-8c33-4a21-8184-0c5c41894468
Meet fellow conference attendees in Spatial Chat:
https://spatial.chat/s/redroom
All eleven panels as well as the conference opening and closing events, and the performance talkback will take place at this link:
http://tiny.cc/caio2021-panels
The keynote presentations will take place at the following links:
Bojana Kunst
https://brocku-ca.zoom.us/j/89392181405
Susan Nance
https://brocku-ca.zoom.us/j/89961132832
Jane Nicholas
https://brocku-ca.zoom.us/j/83196981718
André Lepecki
https://brocku-ca.zoom.us/j/86094627852
*All times are North American Pacific Time
Thursday, November 4
6-8 am
Young Research Network in Circus Studies (YOUR | Circus)
8-9:15 am
Conference opening
9:45 - 11:15 am
Panel 1: Vibrant objects
Chair: Marie-Andrée Robitaille
Presenters: Michael Eigtved, Morgan Anderson/Dawn Dreams, Sarah Plummer, Magali Sizorn
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Keynote 1: Bojana Kunst, Justus-Liebeg University Giessen, Germany
“(Un)settling lines of care: braiding virtuosity and precarity in the work of the performance artists”
Chair: Ante Ursic, East Tennessee State University, USA
2-3:15 pm
Panel 2, Circus and Racialization
Chair: Olga Lucia Sorzano
Presenters: Tim Reid, Veronica Blair, Maud Achaempong
7:00pm
Performance launch: Karen Fricker, Charles Batson, Ante Ursic
Performances:
Aneckxander by Alexander Vantournhout and Bauke Lievens
C8H11NO2 by Room 100
OI+IO by Jörg and Roman Müller
I Miss Grandma So Sad by François Bouvier
All performances go live at 7:00 pm Pacific on November 4 and will stay live throughout the conference. Password will be emailed to conference registrants.
Friday, November 5
8-9:15 am
Panel 3: Circus audiences
Chair: Aastha Gandhi
Presenters: Kate Holmes, Katharine Kavanagh, Maddly Guilliaume, Kate Hartoch
9:45 - 11:15 am
Panel 4: Being with the non-human other
Chair: Dana Dugan
Presenters: Denise Rogers Valenzuela, Ante Ursić, Franziska Trapp
11:45 am - 1pm
Panel 5: Practicing disobedience and deviance
Chair: Alisan Funk
Presenters: Jordana Greenblatt, Mathilde Perahia, Dana Dugan, Melissa Caminha
2-3 pm
Keynote 2: Susan Nance, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
"Trained animal acts and circus arts beyond the circus"
Chair: Karen Fricker, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
4-5:15 pm
Panel 6: Circus bodies in/of pain
Chair: Hayley Malouin
Presenters: Ayal Prouser, Keely Whitelaw, Marie-Eve Skelling-Desmueles
Saturday, November 6
8-9:15 am
Panel 7: Transcultural and Intercultural circus, past and present
Chair: Veronika Štefanová
Presenters: Aastha Gandhi, Olga Lucia Sorzano, Sabine Hanke, Camilla Löf
9:45 - 11:15 am
Panel 8: Circus, practice, embodiment
Chair: Michael Eigtved
Presenters: Gaia Vimercati, Hayley Malouin, Sebastian Kann
11:45 am - 1pm
Panel 9: Different worldings: Circus, utopia and the carnivaesque
Chair: Marion Guyez
Presenters: Roy Gómez-Cruz, Cyrille Roussial, Michael Stokes
2-3:00 pm
Keynote 3: Jane Nicholas, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"History in three rings"
Chair: Charles Batson, Union College, New York, USA
4-5:15 pm
Panel 10: Circus, perceptions, publics
Chair: Jennifer Miller
Presenters: Madeline Hoak, Amy Cohen, Doyle Ott
Sunday, November 7
8-9:15 am
Panel 11: Circus, genre, and identity: Challenging borders and definitions
Chair: Franziska Trapp
Presenters: Kelsey Blair, Alisan Funk, Victor Bobadilla Perra, Rémi Baert
9:45-11:30 am
Performance talkback
Facilitators: Veronika Stefanova with Olga Lucia Sorzano
12 - 1 pm
Keynote 4: André Lepecki, New York University
"Gimme shelter: sociality in the nest"
Chair: Ante Ursic, East Tennessee State University, USA
1:15-2:15
Conference closing and project pitches