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Dear colleagues,
As the deadline for IUAES 2013 has been extended, we would like to
welcome proposals to the panel:
'All the world's a stage' -- Social and political potentialities of
theatre and performance
The deadline for submission of abstracts is August 3rd and
submissions can be made using the "propose a paper" link on http://
www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?View=General
Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries and we
look forward to receiving your proposals.
With best wishes,
Alex Flynn ([log in to unmask]) and Jonas Tinius ([log in to unmask])
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'All the world's a stage' -- Social and political potentialities of
theatre and performance
Convenors: Alex Flynn (University of Cambridge); Jonas Tinius
(University of Cambridge)
Short abstract:
This panel seeks to investigate the potential of theatre and
performance to provide reflections on society and sociality,
alterity, and politics. We seek to explore how theatre/performance
provides insight into the emergence of forms of protest, new forms of
social relations and societal aspirations.
Long abstract:
If all the world really is a stage, and we the players on it, as
totus mundus gait historionem (Garber 2008) suggests, then where do
we position theatre and performance in this world? Social theory
following Goffman, Bourdieu, and Butler has theorised the importance
of performative metaphors and notions of performativity for our
understandings of self, gender, belonging, sociality, and politics.
In this panel, we explore the creative pathways that a study of
theatre and performance may open for anthropological enquiry. What do
we understand by theatre and how does it differ from other
performative events? What social forms and political events does
theatre provoke and effect? If one of the political potentials of
performance is protest and self-identification, what is the socio-
political potential of more institutionalised forms? What if theatre
is understood as a broader category of intellectual and aesthetic
enquiry into self-reflected understandings of embodiment and emotions?
It is in its potential to provide second-order reflections on society
and sociality, that theatre is important for how we analyse the
emergence of protest, new forms of social relations, and aspirations
of groups. By focussing on "humans who embody other human beings", as
Helmuth Plessner described it, theatre can provide a rich field for
anthropological explorations of people's own reflections on humanity,
sociality, aspirations, and emotions. We look to ethnographic
analysis to explore the variety of actors', directors', and
audiences' reflections on how to stage the world and thereby render
the world a stage.
Dr Alex Flynn
ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Social Anthropology |
University of Cambridge
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