Performance & Politics International Research Centre
From One World to Another: A semi-autobiographical narrative that considers classism and racism against the background of a movement from one class to another and the dislocation that produces. It explores notions of misinterpellation—when someone responds to a call that they know is not for them—and how such a refusal of interpellation […]
From the end of June 2018, the Performance and Politics international (PPi) research centre will be moving. Professors Jenny Edkins and Adrian Kear are leaving Aberystwyth University, and are working to re-establish PPi in a new home. The PPi Masters programme in Aberystwyth, the MA in Politics, Media and Performance, will not run in 2018-19, but […]
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Dr Berit Bleisemann de Guevara, organiser of the Stitched Voices Exhibition, discusses textiles as sources and exhibitions as way of learning about conflict Dr Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is the current Director of Research at the Department of International Politics. She is a Reader in Peacebuilding, Post-war Reconstruction and Transitional Justice, and Director of the […]
Artistic Director of Dawns Dyfed community dance project for the west of Wales 1987 – 2007. Performer and devisor with Brith Gof. Senior registered dance Movement Therapist with ADMPUK. Margaret’s area of research is Performance and Disability with a particular interest in work made by and with people with learning […]
Performance, Politics and the Social Factory: Socially-engaged theatre and performance practice has often been viewed as a counterbalance to threats to social and cultural life presented by modern forms of capitalism. Concerns for the diminishment of social life, created by the imperative to ‘economise everything’ associated with this historical […]
The Politics of Uncertainty: Forensic aesthetics and the search for Latin America’s disappeared The lecture examines: 1) Imagery and appropriation; 2) Religious iconicity / iconicity and gender; 3) Forensic aesthetics and the end of uncertainty. The final part of the talk will discuss Tom Keenan and Eyal Weizman’s work Mengele’s skull: the advent of […]
Small Acts of Repair: Violence, Mourning and Testimony in Lola Arias’s Theatre Lecture Tuesday 21 November 6:30pm-8:00pm, Main Hall, International Politics; Seminar Wednesday 22 November, 10:00am-12:00, IAH Meeting Room Hugh Owen In this lecture I engage Lola Arias’s recent performances such as My Life After (Mi vida despues, 2009), Melancholy […]
On Donald Trump’s Hair: How does theatre think through theatricality?
Dr Claire Moon from the LSE Centre for Human Rights was our first Performance and Politics international (PPi) Distinguished Speaker of the new session. Her provocative talk explored whether the dead have human rights. After taking us through the history of legal humanitarianism, transitions from conflict or to democracy, and […]
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Listen Here: Details On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, BBC Radio 4’s John Humphries interviewed Adrian Kear on The Today Programme about the public response to her death. Adrian discusses the public performance of mourning and its role in the imaginary construction of nationhood and national identity; how otherwise unacknowledged […]
Lecture Cancellation Notice: It is with deep regret that the Performance and Politics international (PPi) 10th Anniversary Lecture scheduled for Tuesday 6th June has had to be postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused, and look forward to welcoming Professor Taylor back to Aberystwyth in the […]
Eric Ngalle Charles is a writer, poet, and playwright, originally from Cameroon and now settled in Wales. In the performance Eric will share stories of his experiences as a refugee and of human trafficking, and an exploration of the concept of ‘hiraeth’; feelings of loss of home, family, friends, and identity, and the resilience these trigger. The workshop […]
Our research theme this year, Absence/ Presence, has provided a provocative focus for a number of activities, and we plan further work exploring this theme in 2017-18. The centre-piece of our research activities in 2016-17 was our three-day Symposium held in April and entitled Absence, Presence, Embodiment. We were delighted […]