Sociology Of Theatre & Performance Research Group

The Politics of Practice Programme Announced

2012-01-24T00:11:00.002-08:00

We are delighted to announce the finalised programme for The Politics of Practice, the international postgraduate colloquium taking place at Goldsmiths, University of London on 17 and 18 February 2012. As is clear from the programme below, this promises to be another exciting event organised by the student division of the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group.

To register your interest and reserve your place at the colloquium please email stpr.group@gmail.com.

The Politics of Practice

An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
Goldsmiths, University of London

17-18 February 2012

Programme of Events

Friday 17 February

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

9:00 – 9:45

Registration and Check-In

Morning Session

9:45 – 9:55

Introduction and Opening Remarks

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper and Rebecca McFadden

The Politics of Practice co-chairs

10:00 – 10:15

Marko Stamenkovic

PhD Center for Ethics and Value Enquiry – Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences

University of Ghent, Belguim

A Suicide Note

Paper to be delivered by Dafne Louzioti, Goldsmiths, University of London

10:15 – 10:25

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

10:30 – 10:45

Emma Gascoigne

PhD Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute

University of Glasgow

From the Ground Up: The Grass Roots Development of Social Media Practice within Glasgow Museums

10:45 – 10:55

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

11:00 – 11:15

Tim Jeeves

PhD Theatre Studies

University of Lancaster and the Free University of Liverpool

Gift and the Temporal Interface Between Generosity and Capitalism

11:15 – 11:25

Question and Answer Session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

11:30 – 11:45

Anka Herbut

PhD European Studies

Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Let’s Undress the Natural

11:45 – 11:55

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

12:00 – 12:15

Coffee Break

12:15 – 12:30

Petra Bolte-Picker

PhD Institute for Applied Theatre Studies

Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen

The Voice of the Body – Vocality and Social Practice in the Theatre of Physiology

12:30 – 12:40

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:45 – 13:00

Flora Pitrolo

PhD Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance

Roehampton University

Surface Games: The Case of Antonio Syxty

13:00 – 13:10

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:15 – 13:30

Stella Dimitrakopoulou

PhD Creative Practice: Dance

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

On Contemporaneity of Copying

13:30 – 13:40

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:40 – 14:40

Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:40 – 15:40

Panel Discussion
In the light of shifting national and political boundaries, how do global changes effect our understanding and experience of 'local' practices?

Panel Discussion led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths, University of London

15:40 – 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:00

Ewa Jelen

PhD Department of Social Science

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

Let Me Frame Your Pain – Photographic Stories that Sustain (Western) Social Order

16:00 – 16:10

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

16:15 – 16:30

Marie Therese Shortt

PhD Creative Arts

University for the Creative Arts Rochester

Patterning Culture: Documenting and Mediating Greeting Rituals in Multicultural Cities

16:30 – 16:40

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

16:45 – 17:00

Estelle Zhong

PhD Department of Art History

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

The Community of Singularities: New Representations of the Individual and the Community in Lone Twin’s Boat Project

17:00 – 17:10

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

17:15 – 17:30

Felicitas Zeeden

PhD ‘InterArt’ Graduate School

Freie Universität, Berlin

The Real Fiction, Theatre Performances as Social Practice

17:30 – 17:40

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

17:40 – 17:45

Closing Remarks

Rebecca McFadden The Politics of Practice co-chair

Performance:

Studio 3, Goldsmiths University of London

Followed by Question and Answer session with the artists led by Philippa Burt

18:00 – 18:45

Stella Dimitrakopoulou

The Last Lecture (a performance)

18:45 Interval

19:00 – 19:45

Jim Brook and Belinda Bell

Two Sides to an Envelope: an Act of Self-determination

20:00 – 22:30

Evening Reception

Location: The Amersham Arms, New Cross

Saturday 18 February

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

9:15 – 9:45

Registration and Check-In

Morning Session

9:45 – 9:55

Opening Remarks

Philippa Burt, The Politics of Practice co-chair

10:00 – 10:15

Camilla Stanger

MA Educational Studies

Goldsmiths, University of London

Heterogeneity and Cultural Practice within the A Level Dance class: from a Pedagogy of Oppression to a Pedagogy of Liberation?

10:15 – 10:25

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

10:30 – 10:45

Stephanie Brocken

PhD Department of Arts and Media

University of Chester

Fragmented Adulthood, Fragmented Practice: Towards a Contemporary Approach to Using the Arts with Young People

10:45 – 10:55

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

11:00 – 11:15

Patrick Doyle

PhD Department of History

University of Manchester

The Role of the Irish Co-operative Movement in Shaping Irish Rural Society

11:15 – 11:25

Question and Answer session led by Rebecca McFadden

11:25 – 11:40

Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:00

Rebecca McFadden

PhD Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

The Czech Theatre Landscape in Flux: Transformation, Continuity and Rupture since 1989

12:00 – 12:10

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:15 – 12:30

Weila Gong

PhD Graduate School of Global Politics

Freie Universität Berlin

An Analysis of Chinese Cultural Diplomacy’s Effect – a Comparison of the Development of Confucius Institutes in Europe and Southeast Asia

12:30 – 12:40

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

12:45 – 13:00

Sukanya Sompiboon

PhD Department of Drama

University of Exeter

Bridging the Gap of Aesthetic Judgement: the Political-cultural Praxis in Makhampom Likay Production

13:00 – 13:10

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:15 – 13:30

Scheherazaad Cooper

PhD Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

‘I am not an Immigrant’: the Next Step in the Performance of Identity in Indian Classical Dance

13:30 – 13:40

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

13:40 – 14:40

Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

14:45 – 15:00

Stephen Millar

MPhil Department of Music

University of Glasgow

Musically Consonant, Socially Dissonant: Orange Parades and Catholic Interpretation in West-Central Scotland

15:00 – 15:10

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:15 – 15:30

Aude de Caunes

PhD Department of European and International Studies

King’s College London

Nettoyage au Karcher: Symbolic Violence and Cultural Resistance in Musical Practices of Contemporary French Postcolonial Communities – from Radical Expression to Political Rebellion?

15:30 – 15:40

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:45 – 16:00

Bill Mann

PhD Department of Music

University of Glasgow

‘Culture Wars’? – London 1705-11

16:00 – 16:10

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

16:15 – 16:30

Philippa Burt

PhD Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

‘Anton and Cleopatrova’: Komisarjevsky’s ‘Russian’ Shakespeare Productions and the Reaction of the British Theatre Institution

16:30 – 16:40

Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

16:40 – 16:50

Coffee Break

16:50 – 17:50

Roundtable Discussion

The politics of practice and the practice of politics – discuss

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

17:50 – 18:00

Closing Remarks

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper and Rebecca McFadden

The Politics of Practice co-chairs

18:00 – 23:00

Evening reception for participants and their guests

Location: The Amersham Arms, New Cross

Call for Papers: The Politics of Practice

2011-10-14T03:14:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Politics of Practice

An International Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

17-18 February 2012

Goldsmiths, University of London

The social nature of various professional practices is often submerged as normal behaviour. Recognising this phenomenon, Pierre Bourdieu argues for the necessity of a transparent and fully contextualized understanding of the ways in which cultural producers, practices and products are socially constituted and, reciprocally, shape their societies. How might group or individual practice, within and across fields, be analysed and examined as a social process?

This call for papers invites postgraduate students from all disciplines to examine how practices can be understood within the context of their social, cultural and political ramifications. The relationship between practice and social process can refer, but is not limited to: the effects of practice on the understanding and the trajectories of society; the exploration of self-disciplined practice (by a group or individual) as a political act of self-determination; the evolution of practice as a response to social, political and ecological crises; and the influence of geographical transformation, global hierarchies and political and economic interdependence on global and local practices.

The Politics of Practice is the sixth annual postgraduate colloquium organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group (STPRG) at Goldsmiths, University of London, under the direction of Professor Maria Shevtsova. This international event will draw on the issues of process and transmission examined in previous colloquia, including Appropriating Space (2008), Bodies and Socio-Histories (2010) and NOW, Legacies and Amnesia (2011). The Politics of Practice will provide an opportunity for postgraduates to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research, delegates will participate in roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the two-day conference. The STPRG is committed to facilitating opportunities for postgraduates across the globe to meet, network, and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We warmly welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com. The colloquium will also include a programme of evening performances; those interested in performing should contact the organisers directly for further information.

Deadline for applications is 1 December 2011.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us on stpr.group@gmail.com with any queries you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper and Rebecca McFadden

PhD Students in the Department of Theatre and Performance

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group

Goldsmiths, University of London

Programme of NOW, Legacies and Amnesia

2011-02-07T02:44:00.000-08:00

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

Call for Papers: NOW, Legacies and Amnesia

2010-10-31T12:00:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

NOW, Legacies and Amnesia
An Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

18-19 February 2011
Goldsmiths, University of London

What is the current climate of right now, of this very moment? In what way does our memory of the past influence our perception of the present and of our trajectories into the future? What role do lineage and legacy play in current practice? In an 'age of uncertainty', the ways we choose to articulate our present, the current, the 'now', will establish the way we will be interpreted in the future. NOW, Legacies and Amnesia is an international student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the theoretical and practical implications of where we are right now – individually, locally, and globally.

This call for papers invites postgraduates from all fields to examine the factors that influence our perceptions of the now. Topics may include, but are not limited to: the relationship between tradition and contemporanaeity; questions of legacy and/or the discontinuation of legacy, including dialogues of lineage; issues surrounding selective amnesia with regards to socio-cultural histories; amnesia and the body; body-memory; transmission through the body; understanding the notion of ‘presence’ and ‘liveness’ within performance and digitality; the dichotomy between the lived and the recounted/reported experience; and the constant struggle for the ‘new’ in the ‘now’.

Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London, led by Professor Maria Shevtsova, this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates across the UK and abroad to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research through the presentation of conference papers, students will be able to participate in roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the event. This is a unique opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com.

Deadline for applications is 7 December 2010

Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have.
We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,
Scheherazaad Cooper
Philippa Burt

PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts
Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group
Goldsmiths University of London
http://www.gold.ac.uk/drama/sociologyoftheatreandperformanceresearchgroup/
http://www.stprgroup.blogspot.com/

Bodies and Socio-Histories: See you next year!

2010-02-25T04:18:00.000-08:00

A big thank you to our presenters and delegates: see you next year!

Bodies and Socio-Histories, the fourth interdisciplinary postgraduate colloquium organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group (STPRG) based within the Department of Drama, took place at Goldsmiths, University of London on 19 and 20 February 2010. Following the directive of Professor Maria Shevtsova and organised entirely by and for postgraduates, the colloquium presented nineteen academic papers given by postgraduate research students who represented twelve different universities from the UK, Slovenia and Canada. An interdisciplinary emphasis characterised the colloquium programme, which placed Drama-based doctoral candidates at Goldsmiths alongside research students from such diverse fields as Sociology, English Literature, Politics and Fine Art. The calibre of papers presented at Bodies and Socio-Histories was notably high – enabled by a substantial response to the broadly circulated Call for Papers – and the scholarly rigour of the event continued to manifest itself in the panel and round table discussions which opened debate to the postgraduate and professional audience. Around sixty delegates attended the event as audience members, including students and faculty members from universities across the UK and abroad. This represents the highest turn-out yet for the STPRG’s yearly colloquia series. An even broader audience was attracted for the Friday evening Dance Double Bill presented in Studio 3 at Goldsmiths, which showcased the work of two practice-as-research PhD candidates within the Department of Drama. Initial feedback, offered immediately by presenters and delegates at the close of the colloquium, demonstrates an unreserved recognition of the success of the event, in terms of both its academic quality and the collegiate atmosphere that was cultivated over the course of the two days. The STPRG will build on the success of Bodies and Socio-Histories with a fifth postgraduate colloquium in February 2011.

Bodies and Socio-Histories Organising Committee:

Shanu Sadhwani, Arabella Stanger (Co-Chairs)

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group:

Founding Director: Professor Maria Shevtsova

Student Division:

Philippa Burt, Scheherazaad Cooper, Rebecca McFadden, Richard J. Piatt, Anna Porubcansky, Shanu Sadhwani, Rachel Shapiro, Arabella Stanger

Feedback for Bodies and Socio-Histories

“A brilliant conference, clearly well conceived and put together. I think everyone there found it stimulating and worthwhile. An empowering experience.”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Presenter, PhD Fine Art Practice, University of Creative Arts

“The cross referencing of concepts across a range of subject areas and subsequent formal and informal discussion groups were informative and engaging. I am confident that concepts generated and ideas shared over the two days will prove invaluable in the development of my research.”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Presenter, PhD Department of Art and Design, Swansea Metropolitan University

“I had my brain tweaked in a way that I've missed at other academic colloquia. I don't think the colloquium could be improved upon. Everything from sending us a list of affordable accommodation to organizing a post-event email list has all been above and beyond expectation.”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Presenter, Department of Sociology Concordia University, Montreal

“The lectures were so varied and interesting, and the atmosphere so warm. It was a real pleasure to be part of it.”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Presenter, PhD English Department, Royal Holloway, University of London

“I'm so glad I attended. It was immensely rewarding and, as the first conference I've ever been to, immensely educational! I can't help feeling I was very lucky to go to such a beautifully organized colloquium for my first time.”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Delegate, PhD Candidate, University of Essex

“Thanks for a fantastic colloquium - I'm looking forward to next year already!”

Bodies and Socio-Histories Presenter, PhD School of Politics, Birkbeck, University of London

Bodies and Socio-Histories was made possible with support from the Graduate School and Department of Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/drama/sociologyoftheatreandperformanceresearchgroup/

Dance Double Bill: Sold Out

2010-02-09T04:34:00.000-08:00

The Dance Double Bill
Nayika - A Woman in Love and HTAP. Studio no 3
presented as part of the Bodies and Socio-Histories colloquium on Friday 19 February 2010 is now completely SOLD OUT.

However, booking remains open for the academic events register.

Bodies and Socio-Histories
An Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students
19 - 20 February 2010
Goldsmiths, University of London

For full details of the programme, please see below or visit:

http://www.gold.ac.uk/drama/sociologyoftheatreandperformanceresearchgroup/programme/

To reserve your free place at the colloquium, please email:

stpr.group@gmail.com

Bodies and Socio-Histories presents a Dance Double Bill

2010-01-29T16:02:00.000-08:00

Bodies and Socio-Histories Schedule Announced

2010-01-22T04:42:00.001-08:00

Bodies and Socio-Histories

19-20 February 2010

Goldsmiths, University of London

Programme of events

FRIDAY, 19 FEBRUARY 2010

09:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.

Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor

Morning Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome

Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

10:15-10:30 Kathy M. Milazzo

PhD Department of Dance, Film and Theatre

University of Surrey

Black on the Outside: The Guineo in Spain’s Golden Age

10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

10:45-11:00 Elisabetta Bertolino

PhD Candidate School of Law

Birkbeck College

Disembodied bodies

11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11:15-11:30 Natalia Lebedinskaia

MA Art History Department

Concordia University, Montreal

Body as Spectacle: Morality and Gender in the European

Tradition of Anatomical Displays

11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11.40-11.50 Short Break

11.50-12.50 Panel Discussion:

With information-technological advances in fields such as medicine, the arts and communication, perceptions of the physicalised body have changed. How has this affected the significance of corporeality in contemporary culture?

Led by Philippa Burt, Goldsmiths, University of London

12.50-13.50 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

14:00-14:15 Amanda Roberts

PhD Department of Art and Design

Swansea Metropolitan University

An Examination of the Quantifiable Nature of a Positive Representation of Women

14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

14:30-14:45 Aisha Phoenix

PhD Department of Sociology

Goldsmiths, University of London

The Role of Dress in Somali Young Women’s Negotiation of Hierarchies of Belonging

14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

15:00-15:15 Scheherazaad Cooper

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Performing Codification: Creating Space and ‘Dressing’ the Female Body in Odissi Indian Classical Dance

15:15-15:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

15:30-15:45 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

15:45-16:00 Marianne Burton

PhD English Department

Royal Holloway, University of London

The Betraying Body in Henry James’s The American : How Cultural and Socio-economic History is Displayed by Characters’ Physical Movement in the Early Novels of Henry James

16:00-16:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

16:15-16:30 Laura Malacart

PhD Candidate

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

The News Editor: Rhythm and Pace as Political Critique

16:30-16:40 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

16:45-17:00 Shanu Sadhwani

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Moving Histories: The Diasporic Body in Faultline

17:00-17:10 Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

17:15 Closing remarks

Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

17:30 Refreshments in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

Dance Performance Double Bill

Followed by question and answer sessions with the artists

18:30-19:30 Nayika - A Woman in Love

Narrated through Odissi Indian Classical Dance

Performed by Scheherazaad Cooper

Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London

19:30-19:45 Short Interval

19.45-20.15 HTAP. Studio nº 3

A dance work with concept and direction by Jorge M. Crecis and movement devising by Daura Hernández García.

Studio 3, Goldsmiths, University of London

20:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

SATURDAY, 20 FEBRUARY 2010

09:45-10:15 Registration and check-in open.

Location: Ben Pimlott Building, Ground Floor

Morning Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre

10:15-10:20 Opening remarks

Arabella Stanger, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

10:30-10:45 Svea Vikander

PhD Department of Sociology

Concordia University, Montreal

Life Lines: Rupture and Healing in the Personal and Social Body

10:45-10:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:00-11:15 Toby Dyter

PhD Fine Art Practice

University of Creative Arts

Beyond Pity: Revaluing the Disabled Body after Nietzsche

11:15-11:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:30-11:45 Mattia Marino

PhD School of Languages

University of Salford

Nietzschean Revaluations of Foucauldian Bodies in Baricco’s Silk and Trier’s Manderlay

11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:00-13:00 Break for Lunch

Afternoon Session

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

13:00-13:15 Arseli Dokumaci

PhD Department of Film, Theatre and TV Studies

Aberystwyth University

Misfires that Matter: Surveying Socio-Histories through the

Physically Disabled Body

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

13:30-13:45 Anja Bajda

PhD Department of Dramaturgy and Performing Arts

Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television

University of Ljubljana Constrained and Liberated Body: Use and Meanings in Theatrical Space and in the Field of Contemporary Dance in Slovenia

13:45-13:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

14:00-14:15 Rebecca McFadden

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London The Retreat to the Body: Embodying the Past in Post-Communist Czech Theatre

14:15-14:25 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

14:30-14:45 Philippa Burt

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

‘The actor imagines with his body’: Michael Chekhov’s

Influence on the British Concept of the Performing Body

14:45-14:55 Question and Answer session led by Scheherazaad Cooper

15:00-15:20 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

15:30-15:45 Matt Mahon

PhD School of Politics

Birkbeck, University of London

Embodied Agency and the Production of the Diasporic Political Subject

15:45-15:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

16:00-16:15 Seamus Malone

PhD Candidate

London Consortium

Liquid Dancing in the Space of Flows

16:15-16:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

16:30-16:45 Arabella Stanger

PhD Department of Drama

Goldsmiths, University of London

Remodelling the Harmonious Body: The Organisation of Space in the danse d’école and Rudolf Laban’s Choreutics

16:45-16:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

17:00-18:00 Roundtable discussion

"The body has a dual role of being both a vehicle of perception

and an object perceived." Maurice Merleau-Ponty, (1962)

How does the body hold or describe history both in the individual lived experience and through external observation?

Led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths, University of London

18:00-18:10 Closing Remarks

Shanu Sadhwani, Bodies and Socio-Histories Co-Chair

18:15-23:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema

New STPRG web space

2009-11-11T05:00:00.000-08:00

In addition to this blogspot, all activity (past and present) associated with the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group will be recorded within our new Goldsmiths-hosted web space.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/drama/sociologyoftheatreandperformanceresearchgroup/

Here you will be able to view information relating to past and present colloquia, and new projects organised by the Group and Professor Maria Shevtsova. All material should be live within the next few weeks. Happy reading!

Call for Papers: 'Bodies and Socio-Histories'

2009-10-04T06:40:00.000-07:00

Bodies and Socio-Histories

An Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

19-20 February 2010

Goldsmiths, University of London

How might histories of social groups be communicated through bodies and bodily action? From dress and gesture to diet and hygiene, the ways in which bodies are conceived of socially can be integral to the (re)production of socio-historical value systems and political structures. Bodies and Socio-Histories is a student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the relationship between physical practice and historical narrative.

This call for papers invites students from all fields to examine how socio-histories become embodied and how bodily action engages with the past. The relationship between bodies and socio-histories can refer, but is not limited to: the body as a site for the inheritance of cultural values and belief systems; the contemporary reception of social customs; relocated histories of diasporic groups; the problematics of ‘official’ history-making; shifts in scientific perspectives and modes of enquiry; the preservation or innovation of artistic traditions.

Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London, led by Professor Maria Shevtsova, this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates across the UK and abroad to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research through the presentation of conference papers, students will be able to participate in roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the event. This is a unique opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context.

We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com. Deadline for applications is 1 December 2009. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Sincerely,

Shanu Sadhwani

Arabella Stanger

PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group Goldsmiths University of London

Producing Culture at Goldsmiths presents contemporary dance work, 'Bf'.

2009-02-12T09:03:00.000-08:00

Producing Culture Registration

2009-02-05T04:03:00.000-08:00

To register your place at the Producing Culture colloquium, please email:

stpr.group@gmail.com

You may also reserve your seat for the performance event presented by Producing Culture on Friday 20th February. London-based dance artists Jorge Crecis and Freddie Opoku-Addaie will perform their new choreographic work Bf and join the audience afterwards for a post-show discussion.

The performance will take place at 6.30pm in the George Wood Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London and tickets are free of charge.

Producing Culture Programme

2009-02-02T08:21:00.000-08:00

Producing Culture 20-21 February 2009 Goldsmiths, University of London

Programme of events

Friday, 20 February 2009 Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre

9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open.

10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome, Arabella Stanger, Producing Culture Co-Chair

10:15-10:30 Susie Balderston MSc Equality and Discrimination, University of Strathclyde, Can it ever be ‘good’ to be disabled and can disabled people’s art ever be ‘good’? Challenging beliefs, changing representation and constructing culture through disability arts.

10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

10:45-11:00 Robert Chisholm PhD Department of Religious Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Us and Them: R D Laing’s Perspective on the Social Construction of Madness

11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11:15-11:30 Anne Smith PhD Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, Young Stars: Producing Art to Change a Culture

11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

11:45-12:00 Laura Malacart PhD Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Voicings: Undoing the English Subject

12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

12:15-1:15 Break for Lunch

1:30-1:45 Joseph Skinner PhD School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology (SACE), University of Liverpool, Inventing the Greek

1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

2:00-2:15 Anna Nolan PhD Musicology, The University of Ulster, The taxi-driver cognoscenti: Opera as re-invented tradition in contemporary Ireland

2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

2:25-2:40 Stacy Douglas PhD Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, Memory, Ritual, and Colonial Mythos: National Identity-Making at the British Museum

2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou

3:00-3:45 Panel Discussion: Do we experience culture as intellectual property or as the free flowing current of ideas?

Seb Franklin, University of Sussex

Dominic Glynn, University of Oxford

Laura Malacart, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

Denitsa Petrova, Edinburgh College of Art

Led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A, Goldsmiths, University of London

3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

4:00-4:15 Rachel Lifter PhD Candidate, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London, Skinny jeans and all: ‘Indie’ style, dress practices and youth culture in London

4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

4:30-4:45 Kathy Milazzo PhD Department of Dance, Film, and Theatre, University of Surrey, The Black Body in Spain’s Romantic Age: Negotiations of Identity

4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

5:00-5:15 Arabella Stanger PhD Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, Offsetting classical harmony: the choreography of ‘balance’ in George Balanchine’s Agon pas de deux

5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

5:30 Closing remarks Shanu Sadhwani, Producing Culture Co-Chair

5:45 Refreshments in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

6:30-7:00 Performance of Bf, new choreographic work by Jorge Crecis and Freddie Opoku-Addaie

George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths

7:00-7:30 Post-show discussion with Jorge Crecis and Freddie Opoku-Addaie, led by Arabella Stanger

George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths

7:45 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union

Saturday, 21 February 2009 Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre

09:45-10:15 Registration and check-in open.

10:15-10:20 Opening remarks, Shanu Sadhwani, Producing Culture Co-Chair

10:30-10:45 Sarah Sigal PhD Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Collaborative Theatre-Making in Britain as a Product of and Response to a Mediatized Society

10:45-10:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:00-11:15 Seb Franklin PhD School of Humanities, University of Sussex, Deproducing Culture: Politics of Nonexistence in Hobbyism and New Media Art

11:15-11:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

11:30-11:45 Denitsa Petrova PhD Centre for Visual and Cultural Studies, Edinburgh College of Art, The Permanent Resistance - The Hidden Agendas of Activist Art

11:45-11:55 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:00-12:15 Laiz Chen PhD Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies & Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham, Whose voice and for whose benefit? Representations and appropriations of oral poetry of resistance in Brazil

12:15-12:25 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani

12:30-1:20 Break for Lunch

1:30-1:45 Dominic Glynn PhD Modern Languages, University of Oxford, French theatre culture 1981-95 –official and artistic discourse

1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

2:00-2:15 Elaine Luck PhD Latin American Cultural Studies, University of Manchester, Institutional Practice and the Production of Cultural Memory: ‘La era de la discrepancia’ and the Recuperation of Post-’68 Visual Culture in Mexico

2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

2:30-2:45 Marcel Reyes-Cortez PhD Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, Recalling the Dead: photography and material culture in the cemeteries of Álvaro Obregón, México City

2:45-2:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

3:00-3:15 Holly Prescott PhD English, University of Birmingham, Un-Producing Space: Abandonment, Identity and Spatial Agency in Nicholas Royle’s The Matter of the Heart (1998) and Director’s Cut (2001)

3:15-3:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A

3:30-3:45 Break for coffee, tea and snacks

3:45-4:00 Sandeep Dutta PhD Social Science, University of Westminster, He is what he has: Understanding how masculine social identities are constructed and expressed with the help of possessions

4:00-4:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

4:15-4:30 Han-ying Liu PhD English, Royal Holloway, University of London, The Wardian Case, Snow White, and "Perpetual Babyism"

4:30-4:40 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

4:45-5:00 Shanu Sadhwani PhD Drama and Theatre Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, Asian Women, hybrid voices, and narratives of diaspora

5:00-5:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

5:10-5:15 Short break for roundtable setup

5:15-6:00 Roundtable discussion:

The place of tradition in globalised culture

Led by Maria Kogkou, Goldsmiths, University of London

6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks, Arabella Stanger, Producing Culture Co-Chair

6:15-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema

Call For Papers: Producing Culture Feb 2009

2008-10-14T06:08:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

Producing Culture

A National Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

20-21 February 2009

Goldsmiths, University of London

From cave art to punk rock, ritual healing to cosmetic surgery, human activity is underpinned by a set of shared values, beliefs, and behaviours that are specific to, and bind, a social group. Producing Culture is a student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the ways in which culture is manifested through and defined by social practice.

This call for papers invites students from all fields to consider the mechanisms by which culture is produced and consumed. Papers should also seek to explore the dissemination of culture as pertinent to the construction of social identity. The idea of cultural production can include (but is not limited to): the materialisation of culture through artistic practice; the construction of culture in architecture and design; the embodiment of culture through gestural system; the performance of culture through rites and ceremony; the preservation of residual cultures; the organisation of mass- or sub- cultures; cultural production as mode of domination or resistance.

Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London (led by Professor Maria Shevtsova), this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates across the UK to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and supportive environment. In addition to showcasing their own research through the presentation of conference papers, students will be able to participate in roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the event. This is a unique opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context. We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers or practice-based presentations that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com. Deadline for applications is 1 December 2008. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have. We look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Arabella Stanger

Shanu Sadhwani

PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group Goldsmiths University of London

Programme: Appropriating Space Feb 2008

2008-10-14T06:07:00.000-07:00

Appropriating Space Programme Goldsmiths, University of London Friday, 22 February 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre 9:30-10:00 Registration and check-in open. 10:00-10:10 Introduction and Welcome Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 10:15-10:30 Samantha Edwards-Vandenhoek PhD in Communication Arts University of Western Sydney You Aren’t Here: Graffiti, the ‘Non Place’ and the Creative Transformation of Urban Space 10:30-10:40 Question and Answer session led by Anna 10:45-11:00 Anna Fewster Collaborative DPhil University of Sussex and The Charleston Trust Black Shapes on White Spaces: Reading the Negative Space of Virginia Woolf’s Fiction 11:00-11:10 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 11:15-11:30 Mehita Iqani PhD in Media and Communications London School of Economics Point of Sale: The Magazine Newsstand as Socio-semiotic Space 11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 11:45-12:00 Patrik Meier PhD Anthropology SOAS, University of London Weaving ‘Modern’ Practices into ‘Traditional’ Space: Young Men in the Tourist Business Shaping Aleppo’s Old City Suq 12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 12:15-1:15 Lunch Location: Room Change to the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) 137A 1:30-1:45 Rachel Shapiro PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Giant Marionettes, Police Blockades and the Politics of Street Festival in Paris’ Goutte d’Or Neighbourhood 1:45-1:55 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 2:00-2:15 Nick Ferguson PhD Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London My Space? Claiming the 2012 Olympic Park 2:15-2:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 2:25-2:40 Daniel Bird Bakhtin Centre Sheffield University Hades Under Krakow: Reclaiming the Salt Mines of Wieliczka as a Greek Performance Space 2:40-2:50 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 3:00-3:45 Panel Session 3:45-4:00 Break for coffee, tea and snacks 4:00-4:15 Shanu Sadhwani PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Crossing Borders: Hybrid Performances and the British Asian Stage 4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 4:30-4:45 Jamie Furniss DPhil, Department of International Development Oxford University The Politics of Space: Putting Egypt’s Garbage and Garbage Collectors in their Place 4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro 5:00-5:15 Holly Prescott MA in Literature and Cultural Studies Lancaster University ‘Authorised’ Personnel Only: Abandonment, Space and Power in Urban Exploration Photography 5:15-5:25 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 5:30-5:45 Anna Porubcansky PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London Transforming the Social Performing Group: Song of the Goat Theatre and its Expeditions into Space 5:45-5:55 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 6:00 Closing remarks Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 6:15 Drinks in The Green Room Bar, Goldsmiths Student Union Saturday, 23 February 2008 Location: Ben Pimlott Theatre 10:30-11:00 Late registration and check-in open. 11:00-11:10 Opening remarks Rachel Shapiro, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 11:15-11:30 Lucia Vodanovic PhD Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London Rethinking Appropriation: Reference and Difference 11:30-11:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel 11:45-12:00 Siobhan Peeling PhD School of History University of Nottingham Soviet Facades and Backyards: Appropriations of Leningrad’s Public Spaces after the Second World War 12:00-12:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 12:15-12:30 Arabella Stanger PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage 12:30-12:40 Question and Answer session led by Maria Kogkou 12:40-1:40 Lunch Break 1:45-2:00 Jennifer Laws PhD Department of Geography Durham University Dissident Spaces: the Spatialities of Listening, Survivorship, and Anti-/Psychiatry 2:00-2:10 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky 2:15-2:30 Richard J Piatt, O.S.A PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London The Space In-Between: Augusto Boal’s notion of Metaxis in light of the ‘Kingdom of God’ 2:30-2:40 Question and Answer session led by Rachel Shapiro 2:45-3:00 Chris Little MPhil Interdisciplinary Studies Manchester Metropolitan University The Effects of Surveillance of Public Space on a Post-Millennium Youth Subculture 3:00-3:10 Question and Answer session led by Shanu Sadhwani 3:15-3:30 Break for coffee, tea and snacks 3:30-3:45 Maria Kogkou PhD Drama and Theatre Arts Goldsmiths, University of London How the Local took Centre-stage: The Case of the Bush Theatre 3:45-3:55 Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger 4:00-4:15 Laura Mansfield MA Cultural and Critical Theory Birkbeck College, London Fish and Chips in Formica Fitted Cafes, Cups of Tea and Ice Creams, and the English Seaside 4:15-4:25 Question and Answer session led by Richard Piatt, O.S.A 4:30-4:45 Stephen Parkin PhD Sociology Plymouth University Purity, Danger and the Displacement of Injecting Drug Users: The Appropriation and Re-Appropriation of Space in an Urban Environment 4:45-4:55 Question and Answer session led by Anna Porubcansky 4:55-5:00 Short break for roundtable setup 5:00-6:00 Roundtable discussion 6:00-6:10 Closing Remarks Anna Porubcansky, Appropriating Space Co-Chair 6:30-11:00 Closing night reception for participants and their guests at Café Crema

Call For Papers: Appropriating Space Feb 2008

2008-10-14T06:04:00.000-07:00

Appropriating Space A National Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

22-23 February 2008 Goldsmiths University of London

From gaming halls to ghost towns, wailing walls to waterholes, social spaces are shaped by the people who inhabit them. Appropriating Space is a student-led colloquium for postgraduates that will explore the many ways in which social and spatial activity and identity are intertwined.

This call for papers invites students to examine the construction of space from many perspectives, identifying the various ways in which diverse groups shape and inscribe social space. The idea of social space can include (but is not limited to): professional environments, collectivities and communes, national and local territories, political imperatives, alternative spaces, performance spaces and theatres, marketplaces, pubs, art galleries and museums, annexed spaces, sacred or spiritual spaces or domestic contexts; the problematics of space and the mechanisms of globalisation.

Organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group at Goldsmiths (led by Professor Maria Shevtsova), this event will provide an opportunity for postgraduates in all fields across the UK to engage with their peers across disciplines in a challenging and convivial environment. In addition to showcasing their own research through the presentation of conference papers, students will be able to participate in several roundtable discussions and panel sessions over the course of the colloquium. This is a unique opportunity for postgraduates across the country to meet, network and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context. We welcome submissions from postgraduate research students. If you would like to participate, please submit your name, university, conference paper title or title of practical workshop and 250-word abstract to appropriating.space@gmail.com. Deadline for applications is 31 December 2007. Please don't hesitate to contact us with any queries you may have regarding the colloquium. We look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, Rachel Shapiro Anna Porubcansky

PhD Students in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group Goldsmiths University of London