Betroffenheit. Foto: Michael Slobodian
Betroffenheit by Kidd Pivot. Photo: Michael Slobodian

”Performing the Distributed Voice of Trauma: Some Local and Transnational Reflections”

Peter Dickinson, Professor of English and Performance Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver

About Peter Dickinson at  the Simon Fraser University website

”Staging the Deco Dandy at International Expositions in 1920s Paris and Athens”

John Potvin, Associate Professor of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal

About John Potvin at the Concordia University website

Programme

09:00

Opening remarks (Dirk Gindt)

09:05

Johanna Karlsson, PhD student at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Wales: “For This World and the Next: Bobby Sands’ Body as a Medium of Communication”

09:35

Sofia Iaffa Nylén, PhD student in Comparative Literature at Stockholm University. “‘I don’t know, she says that she leaves because of poverty’: Political exile forming and disrupting identities in Cristina Feijóo’s ‘Cómo en las Películas’ (1990)”

10:05 Coffee break
10:20

Iain Sands, PhD candidate in Korean Studies at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern, and Turkish Studies at Stockholm University: “Performing in the ‘Cultural Borderlands’: Unpacking Performance Practices of a North Korean Musical Troupe in South Korea”

10:50

Lotta Granqvist, PhD student in Art History at Stockholm University: “The camera as extended organ: Penetrating Eva Klasson’s body of work”

11:20 Lunch
12:30

John Potvin, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University, Montreal: “Staging the Deco Dandy at International Expositions in 1920s Paris and Athens”

13:45 Coffee break
14:00

Peter Dickinson, Professor in the English Department and the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver: “Performing the Distributed Voice of Trauma: Some Local and Transnational Reflections”

15:15

Concluding remarks (Dirk Gindt)