Identity, Performance and Social Action

Papers & Conferences

The Identity, Performance and Social Action Research Project has attended the following conferences presenting these presentations and papers.

• Erene Kaptani will be speaking at the Cultural Studies Conference in July on Performing power: using theatre with groups [‘Playback’ and ‘Forum’] as cultural and aesthetic spaces for refugees to construct, authorize and resist power Download document - pdf format | Download Power Theatre presentation document
• Nira Yuval Davis Identity, Identity Politics and the constructionism debate at theBSA Conference 2007 at University of East London. Download document -pdf format
• Erene Kaptani Performance, Space and Identity: Community Theatre Among Refugees was part of a colloquium organised by the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme and the Open University Geography Department, February 2007 and Performance and Asylum symposium, supported by AHRC, Royal Holloway, February 2007. Download document - pdf format | Download ESRC Paper 2006 document
• Nira Yuval-Davis/Erene Kaptani Theatre praxis as a research narrative ESRC residential conference of the Identities and Social Action research programme, July 2006 at Open University
• Nira Yuval-Davis  Identity, performativity, mirroring – some thoughts for the first advisory board [Sept 05] of the ESRC projects at the University of East London 2005 Download document - pdf format

Related Publications

Forthcoming

Forthcoming events are:

• Suspended Lives play and Forum Theatre session inspired by the research will be shown at Tara Arts, 2nd, 3rd and 4th October 2008.

• 24th September, 2008, Royal Institute of British Architecture, London - Identities and Social Action: Contemporary Identity Practices
  This one day seminar is intended for policy, political and academic audiences. It will be about presenting the main findings from the Programme over the last four years. If you wish to book a place now, however, please RSVP to Kerry Carter (k.carter@open.ac.uk).

• Erene kaptani will present on the 3rd September, 2008, for Performance, Identity and Community working group, at Theatre and performance research association’s (TAPRA) conference, Leeds. If you wish to book a place please visit (www.tapra.org).

• Erene Kaptani will be speaking at the Cultural Studies Conference in July on Performing power: using theatre with groups [‘Playback’ and ‘Forum’] as cultural and aesthetic spaces for refugees to construct, authorize and resist power

• The Identity, Performance and Social Action Research Project’s dissemination conference will be held in 7/8 March 2008.

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