Drama and Performance

MICHAELMAS TERM 2020

Seminars will take place via Zoom on Thursdays at 5pm except for 4th December which starts at 2pm. Zoom links and preparatory readings will appear on the seminar's Moodle page. Please email ew513@cam.ac.uk if you have any difficulties accessing links.

Thursday 29th October- 5pm Professor Umut Korkut, Wise Centre for Economic Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University
Aesthetics, Performance and Global Protest: ‘Looking for truth in absurdity: humour as community-building and dissidence against authoritarianism’

Thursday 12 November - 5pm Professor Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Professor, Stanford University

Thursday 26 November - 5pm Lisa Dwan, Visiting Fellow, Princeton University

Friday 4 December- 2pm Professor André Lepecki, New York University Tisch School of the Arts Movement in the Pause: Necropolitics, Movement and the coronavirus pandemic