1^st Performative Teaching and Learning Symposium

Exploring Performative Practices across Disciplines

 

Fri, September 13^th, 2013, 9.15 – 17.00 - UCC Drama Lab (Connolly Building, Western Road)

Sat, September 14^th, 2013, 10.30 – 13.00 (Main Campus, Alfred O’Rahilly Building, Room 1.23)

 

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The symposium centres on theoretical perspectives and practices which aim at paving the way towards a new, performative teaching and learning culture. Guiding questions will include: What is the essence of the ‘performative’? Are there indications of an increased ‘performative orientation’ in some of our disciplines? Could the ‘performative concept’ signal a whole new way of thinking and acting in the field of ‘teaching and learning’ (=new paradigm)? What are the characteristic features of performative teaching and learning? How does one learn to teach in a performative way?

 

Friday 13^th September
(Drama Lab, UCC)

 

9.15 Welcome coffee/tea

 

Opening Address

09:30 – 09:45      David Ryan (Vice-Head for Teaching and Learning, College of Arts, Celtic Studies

                            and Social Sciences, University College Cork)

 

Keynote Lecture

09:45 – 10:30      Wolfgang Nitsch (Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Oldenburg)

                            Towards performativity as an integrative focus in arts-based learning and

                            inquiry. Experiences from a post-colonial South-North collaboration involving

                            teachers, youth workers and academics in Lower Saxony and the Eastern Cape

                            Province.

 

Session I: Perspectives on Performative Teaching and Learning

 

10:30 – 10:45      Bärbel Jogschies (Theatre Pedagogy Section, Hanover State Theatre)

                            Learning to see – playing with realities. How professional theatre shares its

                            learning experiences and working methods.

 

10:45 – 11:00       Peadar Donohoe (Artistic Director of Cyclone Repertory Company, Cork)

Performative transitions: Adapting actor status training exercises to boost confidence in the primary classroom.   

 

11:00 – 11:15      Jennifer Rogers (Artistic Director of Roundhouse Theatre, Cork)           

                            Performative Orientations in Teacher Training in Ireland.

 

                       

11:15 – 11.45      Coffee Break

 

 

Session II: Perspectives on Performative Teaching and Learning

 

11:45 – 12:00       Carmel O’Sullivan (Head, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin)

                            Blustering Buffoon or Engaging Pedagogue: What is Lost and Gained in Bringing

                            the Performative to Education.

12:00  – 12.15      Trina Scott (Lecturer in Theatre and Drama Studies, CIT Cork School of Music)

                            "What to do with the chorus?": A Performative Approach to Teaching and

                            Learning Theatre History.

 

12:15 – 12:30      Roisín O’Gorman (Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies, University College Cork) 

    Between movement and stillness: a theatre and performance based reflection on the possibilities of performative pedagogies.

 

12:30 – 13:30      Buffet Lunch

 

 

Session III: Perspectives on Performative Teaching and Learning

 

                           

13:30 – 13:45      Micha Fleiner (University of Education, Freiburg; Visiting Scholar, UCC)

                            The idea of the performative in the German university context.

 

13:45 –  14:00      Manfred Schewe (Head, Department of German, University College Cork)

                            Towards a new, performative teaching and learning culture: A modern languages

                            perspective.

 

14:00 – 14:15     Mike Fleming (Professor Emeritus, Department of Education, Durham University)          (TBC)

                           

14:15 – 14:30      Art and Education Film
    (released at International Drama in Education Association World Congress 2013)

 

14:30 – 14:45      Performative moments

 

 

Small Group Work

14:45 – 15:30      Symposium participants will be given the opportunity to engage with the issues

                            raised in the keynote speech and presentations by working in small groups

                            which will prepare the input for the concluding panel discussion.

 

15:30 – 16:00      Coffee Break

 

Concluding Panel Discussion

16:00 – 17:00      Panel Discussion. Closing Remarks.

 

 

Saturday 14^th September
(Alfred O’Rahilly Building, Room 1.23)

 

Round Table Discussion

10:30 – 13:00      Discussion of the outcomes of the first symposium day, exchange of ideas and

                            information with regard to:

a)     the organisation of an International Conference on Performative Teaching and Learning (planned for May 29th – June 1^st, 2014)

b)     the establishment of a Centre for Performative Teaching and Learning at UCC

c)     the compilation of a symposium report.

 

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The organizing team (Manfred Schewe, Micha Fleiner, Stefan Kriechbaumer, Jennifer Rogers) wish to thank the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC, and the Departments of German and Drama and Theatre Studies, UCC, for funding this symposium.
Note that this symposium builds on the activities of UCC’s Theatre and Performance Working Group (http://theatreandperformanceucc.wordpress.com) and, in terms of its main focus, is directly linked to UCC’s first online journal SCENARIO (http://scenario.ucc.ie). In terms of preparation for the symposium, participants may wish to refer to the following article in SCENARIO’s current issue: http://research.ucc.ie/scenario/2013/01/Schewe/02/en, and to texts which will be provided by the keynote speaker and be made available to participants in advance.