Call for Papers
Asylum and Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Performing
Community, Crisis and Belonging
20-21 APRIL 2012, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
A two-day conference on performative responses to asylum and
displacement. The vast populations of asylum seekers, refugees and other
unauthorised or irregular migrants represent the vanguard of some of the
most pressing challenges in a globalised world: conflict, crisis,
poverty, security, human rights, environmental degradation and climate
change. The conference will facilitate scholarly and creative exchange,
investigating ways in which performance might witness, respond to and
intervene in these challenges. Performance in this context may include
professional and amateur theatre, community, youth and applied
performance, film, protest and activism, site-specific work, and more
broadly, the ‘enactment’ of citizenship and belonging.
Supported by the Department of Drama and Theatre, the Centre for
International Theatre and Performance Research (CITPR), and the
Humanities and Arts Research Centre (HARC) at Royal Holloway, University
of London.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor James Thompson (University of
Manchester) and Assoc. Professor Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European
University). Researchers, artists and other stakeholders are invited to
submit 250-word abstracts for papers or practical presentations in
response to any of the following topics:
* Applied, participatory and community performance
* Education and youth theatre
* Verbatim, testimonial or tribunal theatre
* Intercultural and multilingual performance
* Cinematic representations of asylum and displacement
* Protest and activism
* Site-specific performance
* Borders, border-crossings and territoriality
* Biopower, security, incarceration and human rights
* Sovereignty, citizenship and belonging
* Cosmopolitanism, globalisation and the ethics of hospitality
* Ecology, climate change and displacement
* Indigeneity and displacement
Details of additional conference guests and a publication will be
announced in due course.
Please forward abstracts to the conference organiser by 31 August 2011:
Dr Emma Cox, Department of Drama and Theatre, Royal Holloway:
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Conference registration deadline: 16 December 2011
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