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Plenary: Refusing Neutrality: Theatre and Performance Under Pressure
1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. EDT
This plenary wrestles with how theatre and performance in higher education can become a politicized practice of resistance—rehearsing care, accountability, and shared power even as campuses face financial constraint, audit culture, and political pressure to depoliticize teaching and public expression. Featuring Anita Gonzalez, E. Patrick Johnson, Leonard Madrid, and Enzo Vasquez Toral and moderated by Julius B. Fleming Jr.
An advocate for the field of theatre and performance in higher education, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) serves as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theatre and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity.
Whether in-person or virtual, the annual ATHE conference brings together a global community of educators, artists, and administrators over a weekend of intense days of workshops, panel presentations, plenary sessions, social events, and performances. ATHE provides its membership with the latest in theatre and innovation, at the forefront of theatre practice and pedagogy.
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Plenary: Refusing Neutrality: Theatre and Performance Under Pressure
1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. EDT
This plenary wrestles with how theatre and performance in higher education can become a politicized practice of resistance—rehearsing care, accountability, and shared power even as campuses face financial constraint, audit culture, and political pressure to depoliticize teaching and public expression. Featuring Anita Gonzalez, E. Patrick Johnson, Leonard Madrid, and Enzo Vasquez Toral and moderated by Julius B. Fleming Jr.
An advocate for the field of theatre and performance in higher education, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) serves as an intellectual and artistic center for producing new knowledge about theatre and performance-related disciplines, cultivating vital alliances with other scholarly and creative disciplines, linking with professional and community-based theatres, and promoting access and equity.
Whether in-person or virtual, the annual ATHE conference brings together a global community of educators, artists, and administrators over a weekend of intense days of workshops, panel presentations, plenary sessions, social events, and performances. ATHE provides its membership with the latest in theatre and innovation, at the forefront of theatre practice and pedagogy.
howlround.com/happenings/association-theatre-higher-education-athe-conference-2026
