GOAL ONE Promote theatre as an essential component in higher education and as a lifelong tool for learning. GOAL TWO Position ATHE as a global participant with higher education. GOAL THREE Continue to develop strategic and sustainable partnerships to advocate for and advance the study of theatre and performance in higher education. GOAL FOUR Support the professional development of ATHE members. GOAL FIVE Develop strategies for sustaining the administrative and organizational viability of ATHE. GOAL SIX Continue to diversify participation in every facet of the organization including membership, programming, scholarship and governance. GOVERNING COUNCIL 2014 - 2015

Henry Bial, President Patricia Ybarra, President-Elect Patricia Herrera, Secretary Scott Shattuck, Treasurer Kathryn Ervin, Vice President for Advocacy Dani Snyder-Young, Vice President for Awards Lionel Walsh, Vice President for Conference 2015 Kelly Howe, Vice President-Elect for Conference 2016 Chase Bringardner, Vice President for Membership & Marketing Jim Peck, Vice President for Professional Development Soyica Colbert, Vice President for Research & Publications Chase Waites, Member-at-Large for Outreach Alicia Tafoya, Member-at-Large / Liaison to the Finance Committee Becky Prophet, Member-at-Large / Liaison to the Focus Group Representatives Barbara Parisi, Member-at-Large / Liaison to the Operations Committee

Chase Waites, KC/ACTF Liaison to ATHE Eric Ewald, Executive Director 4

Welcome to ATHE’s 29th Annual Conference!

On behalf of the Governing Council, I am pleased to welcome you to Montréal. We gather here at a critical time for the field of theatre in higher education. There was a time, or perhaps we only imagined it, that the “ivory tower” of the university remained protected, or at least comfortably aloof, from the troubles of the society at large. That time is no longer. Political tensions, structural racism, gender normativity, and rising economic inequality have inescapable consequences for how we study and practice theatre and performance. We confront these issues daily in the classroom and the rehearsal studio. We analyze them in our scholarship and explore them in our creative practice. We wrestle with them in planning our production seasons and agonize over them as we conduct faculty searches. How many of us begin our workday in the spirit of the Ars Poetica (“to delight and instruct”) and conclude it in the spirit of The Threepenny Opera (“first bread, then morals”)? Both impulses, of course, are correct. The call to memory, then, that serves as this year’s theme – Je me souviens – is not an expression of nostalgia but a summons: as an Association, ATHE must remember both our ideals and the realpolitik of contemporary higher education. We must remember to honor the talents and accomplishments of our students and colleagues at th

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