Postgraduate and Staff Research Seminar
Go to Seminar Program Semester 2, 2008
The Department of Performance Studies invites everyone to join us for our weekly Friday afternoon research seminar.
Held between 3pm and 5pm, in the AV Studio at the Department (Level 1, Woolley Building, off Manning Rd), the seminar is an opportunity for postgraduates, staff and invited guests to present their research. Presentations may be 'conventional' twenty-minute papers, extended talks, demonstrations or, indeed, any other format. Emphasis is placed upon discussion and a relaxed exchange of ideas.
Postgraduate students are encouraged to contribute a presentation once a semester. Often the session is used as a 'trial run' environment for upcoming conferences. On other occasions, the seminar has been used to address specific concerns. Recent sessions have involved debriefing conference activity; workshopping abstract-writing and paper preparation; and developing article-writing skills.
In addition, each year special sessions are dedicated to new postgraduate candidates presenting their projects; to completing postgraduates offering a retrospective of their time as a candidate; and honours students presenting their research epitomes as they embark upon their long essays.
The schedule for each semester is put together by the Seminar Coordinator; for 2008, this is Dr Amanda Card. Please should you wish to contribute to future seminars.
Friday 1 August
Justine Shih Pearson "Encountering intercultural encounters"
Dr Amanda Card “Appreciation and Appropriation in the work of Reginald and Gladys Laubin”
Friday 8 August
Dr Sophie Nield "Shifting sands: space and representation on the US/Mexico border"
Sophie is visiting the Department as an International Visiting Scholar from Royal Holloway University in London.
May-Brit Akerholt "Theatrical dramaturgy … part science, part art and part black magic"
Friday 15 August
Carole Dilley IMPRINTS a dance film Installation and discussion"
Carol Dilley is a teacher, choreographer and performer with an international reputation visiting the Department from Bates College, where she is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance in the 4 year tertiary degree program in the liberal arts.
Friday 29 August
Dr Paul Dwyer with Professor Jim Martin, Dr Michele Zappavigna (from Linguistics) Presenting a work in progress report on their ARC Discovery Grant project - “Enacting Reconciliation: negotiating meaning in Youth Justice Conferences.”
Kate Leader Presents her “Exit Paper”
Kate has recently submitted her PhD on "Trials and performance" for examination. In line with recent tradition in the Department of Performance Studies, she will share with us some of the hard won knowledge she acquired over her candidature, reflecting on what it really means to conduct a PhD research project.
Friday 5 September
Paul Dwyer Performance Performance "BOUGAINVILLE PHOTOPLAY PROJECT"
A "dress run" of Paul's performance as part of LIVE WORKS at the PERFORMANCE SPACE, at CARRIAGEWORKS, Wilson St Redfern.
A slide show with fireside chat. An intimate, moving and constantly surprising monologue performance that grapples with the ethical, epistemological and practical dilemmas of making art and conducting research in post-colonial, post-conflict settings – particularly when the performance-maker/researcher is a citizen of the former colonial power. This is politics and performance at its most personal.
PERFORMER/DEVISOR: Paul Dwyer
DIRECTOR: David Williams (Version 1.0)
VIDEO: Sean Bacon
PRODUCTION: Russell Emerson
See the real deal on SAT 6 SEP 2PM @ Performance Space
Friday 12 Sept
Professor Harai Golomb Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Tel-Aviv University
“Mediations of Chekhov and Mozart on Stage and Screen”
Professor Harai Golomb (Professor Emeritus) has been teaching Theatre Studies, Musicology and in the “Multi-Disciplinary Programme” in Arts at Tel-Aviv University since 1988 and was previously a lecturer in the same University’s Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature. His expertise ranges from specialist areas of prosodic theory and poetic syntax through to performance analysis of opera, mainly the works of Mozart, on stage and screen. His most recent book is Presence Though Absence: A New Poetics of Chekhov’s Major Plays (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2008).
Friday 19 September
Jeff Stewart "The Shock of the Caress"
This paper will offer a brief history of the influences on Benjamin for his understanding of the messianic. It will develop the idea, which at the moment has become central to my thesis, of the difference between the shock and the caress. The shock for Benjamin was a moment in which the messianic may be revealed, but I suggest that because of what I see as the inherent violence in aspects of this shock, or the juxtaposition of images which may constitute it, we are drawn back into the same, and difference is again denied. The paper will also explore an instance within the everyday of Benjamin’s ‘spark of holiness’, the messianic, through a story about a harvest dinner organized by my partner, Cath.
Liza-Mare Syron Title tbc
Friday 26 September
Kath Bicknell Title tbc
Nicolas Hope Title tbc
Friday 10th October
Avi Michael “4th Year presentation”
Ian Maxwell “The Space Between: Pneumatism, magnetism, transluminescence and the actor”
Friday 17 October
Adam Ernst Title tbc
Aine De Paor “Irish-Australian interconnectedness in Theatre & documenting the work of “Opunk’sky’s”
Friday 24 October
Daniel Johnson "Corporate Performance Incorporated"
A provocation about the intersections between Performance Studies and corporate performance / training.
Adrian Johnson "Towards a Methodology Part #2”
Friday 31 October
Jodie McNeilly "Message from the Midwest "
Miranda Heckenberg "The design process – tales from the field"
Interested in knowing more about the seminars in Semester #2 2008, please contact .