New session on Emmanuel Levinas

Summer is long gone, and so are our commitments with conferences and papers. After some weeks of deliveration, we are happy to announce that our next seminar, to be held on the 28th of November, will be devoted to the discussion of two texts by Emmanuel Levinas, thus allowing us to further on the discussions on ethics and the consideration of the other that we have been carrying out in the last few months.

Hello September

As September progresses, we are slowly getting back to our research activities. We'll be soon updating with information of our next seminars to come. In the meantime, here are some images of our participation in the IFTR World Congress "Theatre and Stratification" in Warwick University. 

Clara presenting at the Political Performances Working Group

Warwick University's venue for the keynotes.

Marta presenting at the New Scholars' session on Theatre and Spectatorship.

Scarman House

Elisabeth presenting at the New Scholars' panel on Terror and Trauma

Terror and Trauma Panel Q&A

We are going to IFTR

Three of the members of our seminar series will be giving papers in the coming IFTR World Congress "Theatre and Stratification" hosted by the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK.

Clara Escoda's paper "Ethics, Precariousness and the 'Inclination' towards the Other in debbie tucker green's Dirty Butterfly (2003), Laura Wade's Posh (2010) and Martin Crimp's In the Republic of Happiness (2012)" will be presented in the Political Performances Working Group.

As part of the New Scholar's programme, Elisabeth Massana will present the paper "Bodies on/off Stage: Towards an Analysis of the Performance of Terror in Post-9/11 British Theatre" and Marta Tirado will speak about "Ethical Responsability and Emancipated Spectatorship in Sarah Kane's Plays" 

Poor Theatres Blog

We would like to draw your attention to Manchester University's Lecturer Jenny Hughes' new blog on the relationships between theatre, poverty and precarity.
You can follow it here: http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk

New seminar session tonight

Tonight we will finally be discussing Marta Segarra's text Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados, together with some current and former researchers from Centre Dona i Literatura (UB).
We would like to thank Melusina's editor José Pons for kindly contributing to our seminar with copies of Segarra's text. 

New multidisciplinary session

After a wonderful and truly enriching (quasi-rhizomatic we would even say) experience discussing Deleuze and Guattari with some of the students in the MA of History and Theory of Architecture, we have decided to continue opening our seminar to fellow researchers and students.
In our next session we will be joined by some current and former researchers from the "Centre Dona i Literatura" (University of Barcelona). The text discussed will be Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados, written by Marta Segarra.

Multidisciplinary session

Our seminar is proud to announce that for our next session, taking place on the 21st of March 2014, we will be glad to welcome the students from the MA on History and Theory of Architecture (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).
We will be discussing "Rhizome" by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.