This one-day interdisciplinary colloquium for postgraduate students will take place at Goldsmiths, University of London on Friday 30 May.
To register your attendance please email stpr.group@gmail.com. A £5 registration fee is payable on cash on the morning of the colloquium.
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Theatres of
Catastrophe
Programme
Goldsmiths, University of London
Friday 30 May
9:30 – 10:20 Registration and Check-In
10:20 – 10:30 Introduction and Opening Remarks
Session One
Ben Pimlott Lecture
Theatre
10:30 – 10:45
Simon Bell
PhD Department of Music and Performing
Arts
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Laibach
and the NSK: The Performance of the European Traumatic Historical
10:45 – 10:55
Question and Answer session led by Geetha Creffield, Goldsmiths, University of London
11:00 – 11:15
Kate Rice
PhD School of Media, Culture and
Creative Arts
Curtin University
Im/Possibilities of Response:
Walter Benjamin’s Precarious Stance at the Crossroads of Crisis
11:15 – 11:20
Question and Answer session led by Geetha Creffield, Goldsmiths, University of London
11:30 – 11:45
Kyoko Iwaki
PhD Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London
Aesthetics of Here-and-There:
Theatre After the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
11:45 – 11:55
Question and Answer Session led by Philippa Burt, Goldsmiths, University of London
11:55 – 12:15
Coffee Break
Session Two
Laurie Grove Baths
Tank Room
12:15 – 13:15
Roundtable discussion (TBC)
13:15 – 14:15
Break for Lunch
Session Three
Ben Pimlott Lecture
Theatre
14:15 – 14:30
Sleiman El Hajj
PhD
Faculty of Media, Art, and Technology
University of Gloucestershire
Sectarian Patriarchy Matters: the Geometry
of Home in Rabih Alameddine’s An Unnecessary
Woman and Nada Awar Jarrar’s A Good Land
14:30 – 14:40
Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt, Goldsmiths, University of London
14:45 – 15:00
Urün Kılıç
PhD MIRIAD (Manchester Institute For Research and
Innovation in Art and Design)
Manchester Metropolitan University
Architecture
& Post-Disaster Design15:00 – 15:10
Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki, Goldsmiths, University of London
15:15 – 15:45
Geetha Creffield
MA Department of Theatre and Performance
Goldsmiths, University of London
Beyond
the 2005 Tsunami: Remembrance, Amnesia and Performance
15:45 – 15:55
Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki, Goldsmiths, University of London
15:55 – 16:15
Short break
16:00 – 17:00
Panel Discussion
In Cultural Criticism and Society (1951), Theodor W. Adorno states that ‘to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.’ Through this provocation, Adorno questions if any words can be uttered after Holocaust and other historic social catastrophes by avoiding generating rote reiterations. Through these reifications, a monolithic voice labeled as ‘true account’ of the catastrophe emerges, which denies the nascent fissures in society that ends up in solidifying the exclusive mechanism sustaining social catastrophes. How could art and societies that cultivate art respond to these catastrophes without retrograding to a rote remembrance? Who are legitimate to claim for the ownership of the catastrophe and how should others critically approach these voices by not becoming a passive audience listening to the soliloquy of the ‘theatre of catastrophe’?
Panellists tbc
Panel discussion moderated by Kyoko Iwaki, Goldsmiths, University of London
17:00 – 17:10 Closing Remarks
17:15 – later
Post-colloquium social gathering
