Theatres of Catastrophe Programme of Events

We're excited to announce the full programme for Theatres of Catastrophe. 

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 Design

15:00 – 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

Call for Papers: Theatres of Catastrophe

Call for Papers

Theatres of Catastrophe

An Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

30 May 2014

Goldsmiths, University of London

How can a catastrophe, or perceptions and intimations of catastrophe be said to influence, shape or threaten societies and culture? The notion of ‘theatres’ here is metaphoric, referring to sites and places, nature, politics and religion – anywhere and in any domain in which catastrophes occur, affect and change lives, and are debated and recorded. Our term also necessarily includes theatre as an artistic and social practice. How do theatre makers – and also spectators – deal with catastrophes in their work?

This student-led colloquium invites postgraduates from a wide range of disciplines and working in interdisciplinary ways to examine theatres of catastrophe, and the theatre that comes out of catastrophes. We invite responses to the following areas, although our list is by no means exhaustive: political strife, including wars and revolutions like the Arab Spring, and events in Ukraine and Thailand; foreign affairs engagements; economic and monetary upheavals; social misfortune; schisms of morality and ethics; religious dissension; scientific and medical calamities, including epidemics; and natural calamities such as earthquakes, Tsunamis, avalanches, landslides and floods. How are responses to such events culturally enacted? Can culture itself be said to be in a performative situation of calamity?

Theatres of Catastrophe is the eighth 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. We normally have two-day meetings, but since logistics confine us to one day ( the case also of last year) this colloquium follows on from Culture in Crisis (2013): it seeks to pick up some earlier threads of investigation and dialogical conversation, while expanding discussion within  the remit of our new theme. Theatres of Catastrophe 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 be invited to participate in roundtable discussions.

The STRPG is committed to facilitating opportunities for postgraduates from across the globe to meet, interact and exchange ideas in a truly interdisciplinary context. We warmly welcome submissions from postgraduate research students for individual papers that do not exceed 15 minutes. Please submit your name, department, university, conference paper title and a 250-word abstract to stpr.group@gmail.com.

Deadline for the application is 12 April 2014.

Please contact us on stpr.group@gmail.com with any queries you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!

Kyoko Iwaki and Geetha Creffield.

Postgraduate Students in the Department of Theatre and Performance

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group

Goldsmiths, University of London

Last Chance to Register Attendance for Culture in Crisis

We are nearly at capacity, but there are a few more places left for Culture in Crisis, an interdisciplinary colloquium for postgraduate students organised and run by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group. 

Full details of the programme are below. Please email stpr.group@gmail.com to register your attendance. 

Culture in Crisis – Programme Schedule

We are delighted to announce the confirmed schedule for Culture In Crisis, the seventh interdisciplinary colloquium for postgraduate students organised by the Sociology of Theatre and Performance. 

To book your place at the colloquium, please email stpr.group@gmail.com

Friday 31 May 2013 

Goldsmith University of London

Programme of Events

Location: Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre                                                                     

9:00 – 9:45

Registration and Check-In

9:45 – 9:55

Introduction and Opening Remarks

 Session One

10:00 – 10:15

Angels Miralda Tena

PhD Critical and Historical Studies

Royal College of Art

Changing of the World as Condition of Contemporary Culture

10:15 – 10:25

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

10:30 – 10:45

Kyoko Iwaki

PhD Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

Social Media as a Form of Witness Art after the Fukushima Crisis

10:45 – 10:55

Question and Answer session led by Philippa Burt

11:00 – 11:15

Swen Steinhauser

PhD Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

University of Leeds

Im/Possibilities of response: Walter Benjamin’s precarious stance at the crossroads of crisis

11:15 – 11:25

Question and Answer Session led by Philippa Burt

11:30 – 11:45

Coffee Break

 Session Two

11:45 – 12:00

Jonas Leonhard Tinius

PhD Division of Social Anthropology

University of Cambridge

Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics

12:00 – 12:10

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

12:15 – 12:30

Stuart Cartland

PhD Faculty of Arts

University of Brighton 

Identity in crisis/ as crisis?  Identity, crisis, discourse and the use of immigration

12:30 – 12:40

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

12:45 – 13:00

Stephanie O’Connor

MA Christian Theology

Heythrop College

Utilitarianism: The Crisis of Education

13:00 – 13:10

Question and Answer session led by Arabella Stanger

13:15 – 14:15

Break for Lunch

14:15 – 15:15

Panel Discussion

‘Encountering crisis: strategies and interventions for the present’?

Panellists TBC

Led by Rebecca McFadden, Goldsmiths, University of London

15:15– 15:30

Coffee Break

Session Three

15:30 – 15:45

Manette Kaisershot

PhD Political Economy

Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London

The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis and Why it is a Human Rights Issue

15:45 – 15:55

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

16:00 – 16:15

Tim Jeeves

PhD Theatre Studies

University of Lancaster 

The work of Kim Noble as Illustration of the Transgressive Potentialities of Generosity

16:15 – 16:25

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

16:30 – 16:50

Ruth Maclennan

PhD Photography

Royal College of Arts

Film Screening (introduced by the artist): Dialogue #5 (It’s not your problem)

16:50 – 17:10

Question and Answer session led by Kyoko Iwaki

17:10-17:20

Short break

17:20 – 18:20

Roundtable discussion

Location: NAB 302

Led by Scheherazaad Cooper, Goldsmiths 

Call for Papers: Culture in Crisis

The Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group are delighted to release the Call for Papers for Culture in Crisis, a one-day postgraduate colloquium held at Goldsmiths, University of London. This will be our seventh annual colloquium organised specifically for postgraduate students, providing them with a space to meet their peers and share their ideas.

Please find the Call for Papers below. The colloquium will take place on Friday 31 May 2013 and the deadline for abstract submission is Monday 8 April.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Culture in Crisis

A One-Day Interdisciplinary Colloquium for Postgraduate Students

31 May 2013

Goldsmiths, University of London

How can a crisis be said to influence, shape or threaten culture? Taking into consideration the wide range of crises that face societies past and present, this student-led colloquium for postgraduates will explore the various ways in which culture is practised in times of crisis.

This call for papers invites postgraduate students from a wide range of disciplines and with interdisciplinary perspectives to examine the relationship between culture and crisis. Responses to this question can refer, but are not limited to: economic crises; political crises, including wars and revolutions; social crises; moral crises; religious crises; how geological crises and natural disasters – Tsunamis, earthquakes, and avalanches – impact social groups, and how their responses to these crises are culturally enacted; and whether culture can, itself, be said to be in crisis.

Culture in Crisis is the seventh 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 event will draw on the issues of process and transmission examined in previous colloquia, including Appropriating Space (2008), Bodies and Socio-Histories (2010) and The Politics of Practice (2012). Culture in Crisis 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 be invited to participate in roundtable discussions. The STPRG is committed to facilitating opportunities for postgraduates across the globe to come together 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.

Deadline for applications is 8 April 2013

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, Kyoko Iwaki, Rebecca McFadden and Arabella Stanger

Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group

Department of Theatre and Performance

Goldsmiths, University of London

The Politics of Practice Programme Announced

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

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