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>>>>>>> A FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending an email to over 1400 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. The SCUDD Conference this year will be hosted by the University of Lincoln - 26-27 March ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [ Everyone is warmly invited to the following events taking place this semester in the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies. For inquiries or directions contact Katie Gough – [log in to unmask] Research Seminars and Practitioner Talks in Theatre Studies: *All seminars and presentations take place in the Dept of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, 9 University Avenue Ewan Downey, Polish Laboratory Theatre 29 January, 1-2pm, room 408 In 2006 Ewan Downey joined the Teatr Piesn Kozla Company. Since then he has worked on devising for and performing in the company's acclaimed new production of Macbeth in which he plays the role of Malcolm. This production, based on Shakespeare's text, Japanese sword work and Corsican polyphonic singing was two years in the making and will be touring major venues in the UK in 2010. Ewan is currently in development with his second play: Hidden Birds, which deals with the subject of torture. He will shortly begin work on Teatr Piesn Kozla's next piece: ‘The Crucible by Arthur Miller’. Ewan will discuss his work with the company. Barbara Kaulbach, Goethe Institute, Glasgow 11 February, 5.15pm, room 408 Title: Chinese Opera: Tradition and the Changing Chinese Landscape Kira O’Reilly 12 February, 3.30 – 5pm, G12 Cinema Kira O'Reilly is a UK based artist; her practice, both wilfully interdisciplinary and entirely undisciplined, stems from a visual art background; it employs performance, biotechnical practices and writing with which to consider speculative reconfigurations around The Body. She has been trying to work with materiality and language in bioscience laboratories, searching out the soft yielding points where perhaps a performative practice can intervene or where knowledges from the lab can spill into the art space. She has never been entirely certain of what she is doing there, except that curiosity and desire play a part. During this presentation she will introduce works and unfold thinkings that sit betwixt and between performance art works and biological art works. From her non-scholarly research practice she will give a combination of artists talk and short readings from performative texts. She will ask questions and invite questions about placing bodies in relation to other bodies; human animals, non human animals, cellular bodies, technological bodies, linguistic bodies, institutional bodies. This presentation is co-hosted by the Departments of History of Art, and Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the ‘border artist extraordinaire’ 18 March, 5.15-6.30pm, G12 Theatre Title: Strange Democracy: An Evening with Spoken Word Brujo Guillermo Gómez-Peña In his new solo-performance, post-Mexican writer and performance artist Gómez-Peña deals with the end of the Bush era and articulates the formidable challenges facing Obama. He also denounces the anti-immigration hysteria and assaults the demonized construction of the US/Mexican border—a literal and symbolic zone lined with Minute Men, rising nativism, three-ply fences, globalization, and transnational identities. Professor David Williams, Royal Holloway 18 May, 5.15pm, room 408 Title: Lone Twin Theatre’s ‘The Catastrophe Trilogy’ Dr. Katie Gough Dept of Theatre, Film & TV Studies University of Glasgow Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 141-330-6129 Fax: +44 (0) 141-330-4142 Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.tfts.arts.gla.ac.uk/ ______________ To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit www.scudd.org.uk/list ______________