Monday, 18 November 2019
at 8:30am
- Allen Hall theatre
The Performing Artefacts conference considers how peoples’ experiences and knowledge of ‘the real’ are communicated via performances involving artefacts – performances of the everyday, as well as activities explicitly labelled ‘performances.’
Wednesday, 21 November 2018 at 5:15pm - Allen Hall Theatre, University of Otago, Dunedin
Wednesday, 21 November 2018
at 9:00am
- Allen Hall Theatre and Orokonui Ecosanctuary
An interdisciplinary conference organised by the Performance of the Real Research Theme.
Tuesday, 7 August 2018
at 5:00pm
- ARCH3 - Archway 3
Stefan Aquilina - Blurring Boundaries: Recurring Principles between Theatre and Everyday Life
Thursday, 23 November 2017 at 4:15pm - Richardson Building, 6th Floor, North, Room 4 (R6N4)
Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 5:15pm - Richardson, 6th Floor, North, Room 4 (R6N4)
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
at 9:00am
- Richardson Building, 6th Floor, North, room 4 (R6N4), Dunedin campus
This conference asks and unpacks the interactions of (post) truth, the 'real' and contemporary media.
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
at 5:00pm
- Moot Court, Richardson Building
Jonathan W. Marshall Public Lecture for the 'Performance and Performativity of Violence Conference'
Monday, 19 June 2017
at 5:00pm
- Moot Court, Richardson Building
Lisa Fitzpatrick Public Lecture for the 'Performance and Performativity of Violence Conference'
Monday, 19 June 2017
at 10:00am
- University of Otago, Dunedin
Keynotes: Prof. Bruce Johnson (University of Technology Sydney, University of Glasgow and University of Turku) and Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick (University of Ulster).
Monday, 21 November 2016
at 10:00am
A three-day international conference addressing issues around the representation of 'real' crises, in particular the 'refugee crisis'. Keynote speakers include Professor Suvendrini Perera (Curtin University, Australia) and Professor Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia)
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
This event investigates the performativity of ritual and cultural enactments, which are integral to many aspects of our lives.
Thursday, 14 April 2016
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
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
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
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
