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Research Seminars on the Theory, Practice and History of Performance

All seminars take place on Wednesdays, 4.30 - 6pm.
All welcome. Wine will be served.

The Department of Drama publishes expanded versions of selected papers given at the seminar as Goldsmiths Performance Research Pamphlets.

Programme for 2009-2010

The seminars take place on Wednesday afternoons: 4.30-6pm. Wine is served.

All are welcome.

2009

14 October

(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)

Cass Fleming (Goldsmiths)

'Michael Chekhov's World of Gesture'

28 October

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Dr Christopher Young ( Pembroke College , University of Cambridge )

'The Munich 1972 Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany '

25 November

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Dr Steve Nicholson ( University of Sheffield )

' Africa on the British Stage of the 1920s'

2 December

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Dr Stephe Harrop ( University of Oxford )

'"Upon Their Lips the Ways of Life": Performance Storytelling and the Greeks'

2010

10 February

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Dr Anselm Heinrich ( University of Glasgow )

'"There are no spectators. There are no good seats. There is only a nation and a site.": Theatre under the Nazis'

24 February

Postponed Until Next Year

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Ajaykumar, with Daniel Somerville (Goldsmiths)

'Relationship-place naka ma'

10 March

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Dr Gilli Bush-Bailey (Royal Holloway, University of London )

'Historiography and Auto/Biography: Performing HerSelf'

24 March

(Room: Deptford Town Hall , 109)

Professor Ronnie Ferguson ( University of St Andrews )

'From the Parlamento and Bilora to L'Anconitana: Stagecraft and Bodily Gesture in Ruzante's Theatre'