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
