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How to Do Things with Performance Theory
Monday, 13 June, 2005 This one-day symposium sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics recognizes the increasing interest in performance studies among Canadian scholars from diverse disciplines. Rather than theorizing performance per se, we want to explore the use-value of performance theory in interdisciplinary studies. By bringing together scholars from literature, theatre, and music, we will share our methodological and theoretical approaches through focused discussion of participants’ work. We also see this symposium as an impetus for beginning to build a network of Canadian scholars working in and through performance studies.
9:30am-11:30am: Session 1 Ric Knowles, University of Guelph, “Encoding/Decoding Shakespeare: Richard III at the 2002 Stratford Festival” Susan Fast, McMaster University, “The Body in Performance” Ellen Waterman, University of Guelph, “A Performative Analysis of George Lewis’s Dream Team’”
1:00pm-3:00pm: Session 2 Veronica Hollinger, Trent University, “(Re)reading Queerly: Science Fiction, Feminism, and Performance of Gender” Caroline Langill, Trent University, “Taken with Surprise” Jesse Stewart, University of Guelph, “Performing Across Boundaries: ‘Liveness’ and ‘Mediatization’ in Gordon Monahan’s New and Used Furniture Music”
3:30pm-5:30pm: Session 3 Christine Baade, McMaster University, “‘The Dancing Front’: Dance Music, Dancing, and the BBC in World War II” Catherine Graham, McMaster University, “Performance as Embodied Social Thought” Wendy Pearson, University of Western Ontario, “‘Can You See Me Yet?’ (In)Visibility, the Queer Archive and Canadian Culture”
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