New STPRG web space

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'

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'.

Producing Culture Registration

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

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