Dear all,
You are warmly invited to the last regular seminar of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at CRASSH before our conference ‘The Politics of Framing and Staging: Performance as Paradigm II’ (December 8).
Homo Ludens: Parties, Participation, and Play
Monday, 24 November 2014
5-7pm at CRASSH (Room SG1)
Not every society or period distinguishes participation and play in the same ways that European (art) traditions do. Why might questioning these collective categories today be useful? How can we productively mobilise an interdisciplinary understanding of forms of playfulness?
Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, emer., FRS (Ethology/Zoology, Cambridge)
Dr Renaud Gagné (Classics, Cambridge)
Chair: Dr Anthony Pickles (Social Anthropology, Cambridge)
Dr Renaud Gagné recent Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy (2013) with Marianne Hopman, explored the simultaneous multiple referential potentials of the ancient Greek chorus. He will talk about some performative aspects of sympotic poetry ("The World in a Cup”: ekpomatics in and out of the symposium).
Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, emer., FRS. Author of Play, Playfulness, Creativity, and Innovation (2013, CUP), Prof. Bateson’s main interest has been in the development of collective behaviour. This has led him to analyse the impact of play on creativity and innovation.
Dr Anthony Pickles is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He conducted extensive research on card games, slot machines, betelnut markets, gambling events, and the character of calculation, money, and value in Papua New Guinea. His article 'Pocket Calculator' won the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute's writing prize.
All are welcome.
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