Monday, 7 February 2011

Programme of NOW, Legacies and Amnesia

The Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group are pleased to announce the finalised programme for NOW, Legacies and Amnesia. The colloquium is taking place on 18-19 February 2011. To reserve a space or for more information on the colloquium please email stpr.group@googlemail.com

Many thanks, and look forward to seeing you all there.

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NOW, Legacies and Amnesia
18-19 February 2011
Goldsmiths, University of London

Programme of Events

Friday, 18 February 2011

10:45-11:15    Registration and Check-in
        Location: Stretch Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

Morning Session
Location: Small Hall


11:15- 11:30    Introduction and Opening Remarks
        Philippa Burt and Scheherazaad Cooper,
NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs



11:30- 11:45    Frauke Surmann
        PhD InterArt Graduate School
        Freie Universität Berlin
The Torture of the Now: The Body as Scene of collective Jurisdiction in contemporary Russian Performance Art


11:45-11:55    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt


11:55- 12:10    Paul Edmondson
        PhD Department of Drama
University of Exeter
Narratives of Performance: Boxers, Legacy and Redemption


12:10-12:20    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt


12:20-12:35    Pamela Kember
        PhD Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)
        University of the Arts, London
        Where to Now? : Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot, in New Orleans

12:35-12:45    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt


12:45- 13:00    Break for coffee, tea and biscuits


13:00-13:15    Aisha Phoenix
        PhD Department of Sociology
        Goldsmiths, University of London
No future in Palestine: how Palestinian university students’ experiences of the present and readings of the past affect their orientations to the future


13:15-13:25    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper


13:25-13:40    Carolina Leonardini-Aris
PhD Faculty of Health and Wellbeing
University of Cumbria
Healthy warriors face global illness: Tourism boom and perceptions of HIV/AIDS on Easter Island


13:40-13:50    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper


13:50-14:05    Moustafa Menshawy
PhD Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Westminster
        Egypt: Culture and the collective memories of Wars

14:05-14:15    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper


14:15-14:30    Red Chidgey
PhD Centre for Media and Cultural Studies
London South Bank University
The Need for the New in Feminist Activist Discourse


14:30-14:40    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper



14:40-15:40     Break for Lunch



Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre


15:40- 15:55     Joseph Luna
        PhD School of English
University of Sussex
“the future comes alive / now” – Achieving contemporaneousness in modern poetry


15:55-16:05    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



16:05-16:20    Rebecca McFadden
        PhD Department of Drama
        Goldsmiths, University of London
Contested Traditions at Home and Abroad: Hybrid Theatre Forms in Contemporary Czech Theatre


16:20-16:30    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



16:30-16:45    Scheherazaad Cooper
        PhD Department of Drama
        Goldsmiths, University of London   
‘A body of tradition’: the cycle of maintenance and betrayal in contemporary Indian classical choreography.


16:45-16:55    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



16:55- 17:10    Break for coffee, tea and biscuits


17:10-18:10     Konstantin Stanislavsky’s exhortation that his actors exist in the ‘Here, Today, Now’ was rooted in a belief that the more precise their understanding of the situation, the more precise their response to it would be. Confronted as we are on all sides by harbingers of doom and rhetoric surrounding our ‘age of uncertainty’, does a playful call to live in the moment seem decadent and irresponsible? How can we, as early-career academics, use Stanislavsky’s approach to grapple not only with our temporal location, but our socio-historical-political context?


        Led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London


18:10-18:20    Closing Remarks
        Scheherazaad Cooper, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chair

18:30-21:00    Refreshments
        Location: The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union



Saturday, 19 February 2011


10:00- 10:30     Registration and Check-In
        Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Foyer




Morning Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre




10:30-10:40     Opening Remarks
        Philippa Burt, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs



10:40-10:55    Jamie Furniss
        D.Phil Department of International Development
Oxford University
        Past, not Future, as Locus of ‘Progress’


10:55-11:05    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper
       


11:05-11:20    Matt Cawson
        PhD Department of Drama and Theatre
Royal Holloway, University of London
        The Mask and The Now


11:20-11:30    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper



11:30-11:45    Christopher Engdahl
PhD Department of Choreography
University College Falmouth
Choreography 2.0 – choreographic authorship via web 2.0


11:45-11:55    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper



11:55-12:10    Break for coffee, tea and biscuits




12:10-13:10    Panel Discussion

More than at any previous time in history, we are continually engaged in the simultaneous living/authoring and reporting/critiquing of our lives. To what extent does the click-here label culture of the internet, social media, and 24-hour blogging prescribe rather than describe the present moment?



Panellists:

        Marianne Burton
        PhD Department of English
Royal Holloway, University of London

       
        Jamie Furniss
        D.Phil Department of International Development
Oxford University


        Eleanor Dare
        PhD Department of Computing
        Goldsmiths, Universtiy of London


        Frauke Surmann
        PhD InterArt Graduate School
        Freie Universität Berlin


Panel Discussion led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London




13:10-14:10    Break for Lunch








Afternoon Session
Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre


14:10-14:25    Verónica Rodríguez
        PhD Deparment of English and German Studies
        University of Barcelona, Spain   
Amnesiac Legacies? Cognitively Mapping Traumatic Experiences in Ashes to Ashes and Mapping. Time: NOW


14:25-14:35    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



14:35-14:50    Eleanor Dare
PhD Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
        Tensers and Detensers: lost memories and embodied traces


14:50-15:00    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



15:00-15:15    Marianne Burton
PhD Department of English
Royal Holloway, University of London
Present Spilling From The Past: a performance based talk and poetry reading.


15:15-15:25    Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt



15:25-15:40    Break for tea, coffee and biscuits       




15:40-15:55     Muyesser Ozlem Basak
PhD Department of History
Goldsmiths, University of London
        ‘Now-time’ of Revelation and Hope in Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch


15:55-16:05    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper





16:05-16:20    Katherine Symonds
MLitt Department of Classics
University of Glasgow
Classics through a lens: warped perceptions of literary origin based upon later misconception


16:20-16:30    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper



16:30-16:45    Philippa Burt
        PhD Department of Drama
        Goldsmiths, University of London
The lost legacy of Harley Granville Barker: the selective amnesia of British theatre


16:45-16:55    Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper



Performance:
George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London
Followed by Question and Answer session with the artists led by Rebecca McFadden



17:30-18:15    Tunji Sotimirin
        Mofobale (Consolidation)



18:15-18:30    Interval



18:30-19:15    Scheherazaad Cooper
         The Lament of the Reed



19:15-19:30     Closing Remarks
Philippa Burt and Scheherazaad Cooper, NOW, Legacies and Amnesia Co-Chairs




19:30-23:00    Closing Night Reception for participants and their guests
        Location: Café Crema

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