Research Seminars on the Theory, Practice and History of Performance
Programme for Academic Year: 2011-12
The seminars take place on Wednesday afternoons: 4.30-6pm (with the exception of the seminar on 7 December which begins half an hour later). Wine is served. All are welcome. The Department of Theatre and Performance publishes expanded versions of selected papers given at the seminar as Goldsmiths Performance Research Pamphlets.
2011
26 October
(Room: Ben Pimlott Building, 3-4)
Dr Kelina Gotman (King’s College London)
‘Performance and Medical Archives’
16 November
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Professor Joe Winston (University of Warwick)
‘ “Play is the Thing!”: Introducing Shakespeare to Very Young Children'
23 November
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Professor William Grange (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
‘Communist Cowboys: Performing the West in East Germany’
7 December
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109; 5-6.30pm)
Dr Karen Fricker (Royal Holloway)
‘Making Theatre Global: Robert Lepage and the Problem of Universality’
2012
18 January
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Professor Alan Read (King’s College London)
'The Complainte of Paules: Between Occupy London & Les Miserables'
25 January
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Dr Gordon Ramsay (University of Nottingham)
‘Futurism and Witkiewicz: Variety, Separation and Coherence in a Theatre of Pure Form’
8 February
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Dr Frank Krause (Goldsmiths)
‘The Phallic Woman as Sacred Mother: Weininger, Kokoschka, and Fritz von Unruh’s Expressionist Play Ein Geschlecht (A Family, 1916)’
7 March
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol)
‘Theatre Adaptation and Translation: Two Sides of an Ideological Coin?’
21 March
(Room: Deptford Town Hall, 109)
Dr Marco Valleriani
‘Shaping the Contemporary Jester: Dario Fo and Political Theatre, between Propaganda and Audience Interaction’