Addressing Contemporary Challenges Through Performance-Postponed

      ‘Addressing Contemporary Challenges Through Performance’

    Online Research Seminar Series 2023–24,

            Performance, Cultures and Politics Research Group,

             Brunel University London

               20 Feb, 12 Mar & 20 Mar 2024

             Curated and Organized by

             PGRs Daniel Gonzalez and Ariel Whitfield Sobel

              under the guidance of Dr Katerina Paramana

You are cordially invited to attend the online Research Seminar Series ‘Addressing Contemporary Challenges Through Performance’ of the Performance, Cultures and Politics Research Group.

EVENT 1 (20 February 2024, 5pm-6:30pm GMT, online): Performance & Communities

How Can Performance Reconfigure our Relationship to our Communities after the Covid-19 Pandemic?

• Swati Arora, Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies, Queen Mary University of London
• Annie Webster, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cultural and Refugee Studies, The University of Edinburgh

EVENT 2 (12 March, 5pm-6:30pm GMT, online): Performance, Gender & Technology

How Can Performance Challenge our Understandings of Gender through Technology?

• Christine Prevas, PhD Candidate, Gender & Sexuality in Media, Columbia University
• Vlad Butecea, Lecturer in Digital Theatre and Performance, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

EVENT 3 (20 March, 5pm-6:30pm GMT, online): Performance & Climate Crisis

How Can Performance Reconfigure our Relationship to the Environment in the Midst of Climate Crisis?

• Aylwyn Walsh, Professor in Performance and Social Change, University of Leeds

• Annie Webster, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cultural and Refugee Studies, The University of Edinburgh

To join us in any of these events, please use the passcode and link below:

https://bruneluniversity.zoom.us/j/91061288769 | Passcode: ResSeriesP

We hope to see you there!