IDEA2020 Digital Congress: Riding the Curve Building IDEA Community, Capacity and Resilience This is a digital Congress September 28-October 4, 2020 |
Conference website | https://www.ideadrama.org/IDEA-2021-DIGITAL-CONGRESS |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idea2020digitalcongr |
Poster | download |
Abstract registration deadline | July 31, 2020 |
Submission deadline | August 8, 2020 |
Riding the Curve Building IDEA Community, Capacity and Resilience
As the full impact of our current circumstances continues to unfold, how can we as Drama Theatre and Education practitioners build a community that will sustain us. We are all riding the curve of change and uncertainty. To carry us safely beyond the pandemic, we need community, capacity and resilience. IDEA has provided and continues to provide a community of shared practice and support. Now, more than ever, we need to come together as a community. Gathering physically in one place may not be possible at the moment but we can join together in shared digital space.
This Digital Congress will be a first for IDEA. It builds on the scheduled webinars running in 2020 but provides a different kind of experience. It will take place in the ZOOM environment.
This Congress replaces the IDEA2020 Congress to have been held in Beijing, China, July 2020.
Expressions of Interest Submission Guidelines
All Expressions of Interest must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference. The following categories are welcome:
Creative Workshops – workshops of practice adapted for ZOOM presentation |
Creative Presentations format to come alive through creative approaches, artistic methodologies, innovative uses of live video software, and visual tools. This is to encourage artistic and performative expression (and to avoid ‘talking heads’ / dull, visual presentations). These Creative Workshops may include masterclasses, workshop style activities, photo exhibitions, or other creative delivery possibilities that include performative elements. It may include the use of breakout rooms (for example to rehearse a role play during a workshop which then gets presented to the whole group).The Congress will schedule workshops across the five languages of IDEA providing there are sufficient expressions of interest. There will be 6 Creative Workshops. |
Performances – recorded performances for ZOOM broadcast |
There is space in the program for shared performances – recorded for ZOOM environment. However, it is important to stress how encourage the presentation of digitised performances. This is both a philosophical argument (the notion of ‘live theatre’ becoming eroded by presenting it on a digital platform) and a technological concern (incredibly large budget is needed to film and broadcast theatre in a high-quality manner). The only exception to this should be performances already (and originally) intended/created for digital consumption. There will be 3 Performance opportunities. |
Paper presentations – groups of academic papers presented in ZOOM environment; each paper 15 minutes presentation with 5 minutes follow up Q and A. |
Standard conference style paper presentations that we are familiar with from physical conferences. In each academic paper presentation session there will 2 sets of 3 papers with an hour break between each set. In each set there will be opportunities for 3 papers with15 minutes for sharing paper followed by 10 minutes for Q&A (Total of 25 minutes for each paper). There will be sessions for papers in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin. Therre will be spaces for 18 papers in English; 6 in French; 6 in Portuguese; 6 in Spanish; 6 in Mandarin. There would also be a moderator to introduce speakers and to keep participants to time. |
Round Table discussions – on selected topics with nominated panellists and a small group of participating in a ZOOM environment | Standard conference style roundtables / panel discussions that would be moderated by one (external) contributor. It is recommended that, to suit the digital format, a maximum of four contributors participate in each panel (i.e.one moderator and three other contributors). These could be Special Interest Groups (SIG) moderated by one (external) contributor and would make use of the breakout room feature. There will be 4 Roundtables. |
- PLEASE NOTE: there will also be Coffee and chat hangouts – social events where congress attendees gather and informally share ideas and experiences.
List of Themes and Topics
The Congress days reflect the following topics:
Opening Day 1 Sunday Hope in challenging times Drama Theatre and Education Beyond Pandemic
Day 2 Monday Building Research Communities
Day 3 Tuesday Sharing innovative communities of practice
Day 4 Wednesday Sharing knowledge in changing worlds – IDEA Publications
Day 5 Thursday Finding voice and building capacity - Young IDEA
Day 6 Friday Together as a community through IDEA Projects
Day 7 Saturay Leaning into the future - Innovation in Drama Education
Closing Day 8 Sunday Creating and re-creating IDEA beyond the curve
Committees
Program Committee
- To be advised
Organizing committee
- To be advised
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to ideapresidentrobinpascoe@gmail.com