Warwick University Summer School opportunity

Mon May 2 17:28:46 EDT 2016

Hi friends!

From Silvija Jestrovic, a great opportunity for our grad students.

Kim

Call for Applications IAS Summer School

Performing Politics/Politicising Performance: Summer School of Political Dissent

University of Warwick

11-15 July, 2016 

How does the dialectics of performing politics and politicising performance enable us to read between the lines of various competing and contesting political, social and cultural texts? How do we as interdisciplinary scholars are to navigate through the landscape of the global political public sphere in a critical and relevant manner, to, in Brechtian sense of estrangement, foreground and see better that what has been hidden from the view?

This one week summer school for PhD students and postdocs will focus on ways in which interdisciplinary approaches from diverse subject areas, such as Theatre and Performance Studies, Politics, Law can draw on theoretical models and creative practices to better understand performance paradigms behind various aspects of the political. Problematising urgent global issues—such as human rights, migration, refugee crises,  citizenship,  political protests and other forms of political dissent— the school  will explore ways in which they have been framed, represented and performed through political rhetoric, media renderings, artistic and cultural forms, and embodied practices of politics, art, and everyday life.

Through talks, workshops, and demonstrations the participants will be involved in a variety of disciplinary approaches and ways in which they could be combined—from traditional scholarly research methods to strategies of practice-as-research. The summer school will offer a varied and inspiring program of talks, seminars, screenings and practical workshops. Each day will focus on one theme that will be approached through various angles, different forms, and cultural perspectives.  

The themes to be covered in the Summer School include: 

·      Performances of Protest: Dramaturgies, Manifestations, and Appropriations

·      Human Rights and Practices

·      Performing Citizenship

·      Migrations, refugee crises and democracy

·      Gender, Race and Performance

Summer School Faculty and Guest (in alphabetical order)

Amir Amirani – internationally renown and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker, the author of We Are Many, the dcumentary about protest marches against the war in Iraq in 2003 that took place in over 800 cities across the globe. http://wearemany.com/the-team/ <http://wearemany.com/the-team/>

Professor Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens) – the author (with Judith Butler) of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2012), Re-writing Difference: Luce Irigaray and “the Greeks” (SUNY Press, 2010), and others.

http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/people/athena-athanasiou <http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/people/athena-athanasiou>

China Plate— an independent theatre studio that works with artists, venues, festivals, to make exciting and original theatre which explores the relationship between form and narrative.

http://www.chinaplatetheatre.com/china-plate

Dr Milija Gluhovic (Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick) — the author of Performing European Memories: Trauma, Ethics, Politics (Palgrave 2013), (with Karen Fricker) Performing the ‘New’ Europe: identities, Feelings, and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest (Palgrave 2013)  and (with Jisha Menon) Rethinking the Secular: Performance, Religion and the Public Sphere (forthcoming 2016)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/staff/dr_milija_gluhovic/publications/

Dr Yvette Hutchison (Theatre Studies, Warwick University) –

the author of South African performance and the Archives of Memory (Manchester University Press 2013), African Theatre History:1850-1950 (James Curney, 2010) and others. She is the lead on the AHRC funded project African Women Playwright’s Network.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/staff/dr_yvette_hutchison

Ice & Fire – UK theatre company with a distinct voice that explores human rights stories through performance using testimony and documentary evidence. http://iceandfire.co.uk/about-us/

Dr Silvija Jetsrovic (Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick) — the  author of Performance, Space, Utopia: Cities of War, Cities of Exile (Palgrave 2012), Theatre of Estrangement: Theory, Practice, Ideology (University of Toronto Press, 2006), and (with Yana Meerzon)

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/staff/silvija_jestrovic

Professor Shirin Rai (Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick) –  the author of (with Janelle Reinelt) The Grammar of Politics and Performance (Routledge 2015), Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (Palgrave 2014), The Gender Politics of Development (Zed Books 2008), Global Governance (Palgrave 2008) and others.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/rai/

Professor Maya Krishna Rao (Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi) — an internationally acclaimed performer, educator and activist, her performances include Walk (created in response to the Delhi bus gang rape in 2012, that has since been performed at schools, street, NGOs, rallies), The Non Stop Food-Clothes-Feel Good Show, Ravanama, Lady Macbeth Revisited, A Deep Fried Jam and numerous others.

http://mayakrishnarao.blogspot.co.uk

Professor Michael Saward (Politics, University of Warwick) – the author of (with Engin Isin) Enacting European Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The Representative Claim (Oxford University Press, 2010), Democracy: Critical Concepts in Political Science (4 vols) (Routledge 2007), Democracy  (Polity Press 2003), and others.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/saward

Professor Andrew Williams (School of Law, Warwick University) — the author of A Very British Killing: the Death of Baha Mousa (Jonathan Cape) which won the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2013, The Ethos of Europe: values, law and justice in the EU (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and others. He has established the Centre for Human Rights and Practices that undertakes human rights projects nationally and internationally.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/people/williams/

How to apply?

Please send the following to m.gluhovic at warwick.ac.uk <mailto:m.gluhovic at warwick.ac.uk> and s.jestrovic at warwick.ac.uk <mailto:s.jestrovic at warwick.ac.uk>

1.   A letter of application of no more than 1 page explaining why you wish to attend the summer school including how you think it may help you with your current research

2.   A one-page CV

3.   A short abstract, no more than one page, of a piece of current research you would like to present at the summer school

Fee: £350  

The fee is for the whole week. It covers: tuition, on-campus accommodation (based on 2 persons sharing a room), and most meals.

Bursaries:

If you are not able to access local funds to attend, we offer a limited amount of travel bursaries and fee waivers. Please note that funds are limited and awarded on competitive basis. We will make decisions on bursaries based on financial need and merit of the application. Please indicate in your letter if you would need a bursary and provide a rational for your request.

5 travel bursaries @ £500 each

5 fee waivers @ £350 each

**Application deadline:  Friday, May 25th 2016**
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/candrama/attachments/20160502/09eaeadc/attachment.html>