Previous events
30 November – 02 December 2022
8:30am to 5:30pm
Performing Global Crises Conference 2022
18 November – 19 November 2019
8:30am to 5:30pm
Performing Artefacts conference
Allen Hall theatre
21 November – 23 November 2016
10:00am to 5:00pm
Performing precarity: Refugee representation, determination and discourses
19 June 2017
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Lisa Fitzpatrick: Laughter, violence and affect
Moot Court, Richardson Building
07 August 2018
5:00pm to 6:30pm
Stefan Aquilina: Blurring Boundaries: Recurring Principles between Theatre and Everyday Life
ARCH3 - Archway 3
20 June 2017
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Jonathan W. Marshall: The neurological theatre of hysterioepilepsy
Moot Court, Richardson Building
21 November 2018
5:15pm to 6:15pm
Performing Community Ecologies - Public Panel
Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Dunedin
19 June – 21 June 2017
10:00am to 5:00pm
The performance and performativity of violence
University of Otago, Dunedin
22 November – 24 November 2017
9:00am to 5:00pm
Mediating the Real 2: Mediations in a 'post-truth' era
Richardson Building, 6th Floor, North, room 4 (R6N4), Dunedin campus
21 November – 23 November 2018
9:00am to 1:00pm
Performing Ecologies Conference
Media, Film and Communication, Tourism, English and Linguistics, Politics
22 November 2017
5:15pm to 6:30pm
Kim Toffoletti: Sexy surfers, selfies, and social media – Encounters with Jean Baudrillard, Postfeminism and Post-truth
Richardson, 6th Floor, North, Room 4 (R6N4)
23 November 2017
4:15pm to 5:45pm
Laurie J. Ouellette: Fake President: Telemorphosis and the performance of grotesque sovereignty
Richardson Building, 6th Floor, North, Room 4 (R6N4)
A Forum Discussion on Manifesto 2083 and Dark Matter
Theme members Dr Suzanne Little, Dr Rosemary Overell, and Dr Sarah Thomasson host a forum and panel discussion with artists from The Rebel Alliance and Martyn Roberts about their Fringe Festival shows Manifesto 2083 and Dark Matter. Both shows aim to bring new light to recent issues or to challenge our perceptions.
Friday, 11 March 2016
Performance of the Real Research Theme: Ritual and Cultural Performance Hui and Symposium
This event investigates the performativity of ritual and cultural enactments, which are integral to many aspects of our lives.
Thursday, 14 April 2016
Performance of the Real: Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Symposium
The event asks what it is about representations, mediations and performances of the 'real' that makes them so compelling in the contemporary moment.
Wednesday, 8 June 2016
It's a social experiment: Pranks, political activism, and performing marginality for a politically correct mainstream audience
This keynote address from the Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Symposium investigates the phenomenon of so-called 'social experiments', where pranksters perform stigmatised identities in public spaces and places.
Thursday, 9 June 2016
Mediating the Real
This conference addresses what the 'Real' might mean in contemporary media studies. Moving beyond common-sense understandings of 'realness' as an objective 'Truth', Mediating the Real specifically applies psychoanalytic and Lacanian understandings of the Real to mediated cultures.
Wednesday, 31 August - 2 September 2016
Performing Precarity: Refugee representation, determination and discourses
This interdisciplinary conference aims to draw together scholars from a wide variety of fields to examine the ethics and politics surrounding refugee representation, determination, and discourses.
Monday, 21 November - 23 November 2016