[csaa-forum] Masterclass @ UQ: Embodiment, Performance, Performativity

[Melissa Gregg]

> Embodiment, Performance, Performativity
>
> Masterclass
> presented by The Australian Studies Centre,
> University of Queensland
>  16th  - 18th September 2005
>
> Session leaders include:
> Professor Gillian Cowlishaw, UTS.
> Professor Jane Goodall, UWS.
> Dr Jacqueline Lo, ANU
>
> Work, play sex and even resistance
> - it's all performance ...
>  (Jon McKenzie)
>
> It might all be performance but then what is performance, what is
> embodiment and when are they performative? These terms are integral to
> analysis in a wide range of disciplines, anthropology, cultural 
> studies,
> literature, film, gender studies and history to name a few. In Perform
> or Else (2001) Jon McKenzie has argued that terms such as performance
> have been 'radically reinscribed, reinstalled and redeployed in uncanny
> and powerful ways'. This three day intensive Masterclass, the fourth in
> the Australian Studies Centre's annual series, focuses on some ways in
> which these terms are deployed and understood. The approaches to this
> exploration will be dynamic and interdisciplinary aiming to provoke
> potential new inscriptions and installations.
>
> The 'Embodiment, Performance, Performativity' Masterclass is aimed at
> postgraduate and early career researchers. Each of the event's three
> invited speakers will lead sessions around the relationship between
> these concepts and their own research in different disciplines. A major
> benefit of the Masterclass is that it gives participants the 
> opportunity
> for sustained engagement with prominent and influential scholars 
> working
> in different disciplines relating to the broad field of Australian
> studies.
>
> Participants are expected to contribute actively to the Master Class,
> relating their research to the ideas and methods discussed. A book of
> readings will be distributed prior to the Class.
>
> WHERE:  Clare Foley Room, Duchesne College, University of Queensland, 
> St
> Lucia.
>
> Please note that registration fees include: Morning and afternoon teas,
> lunches, conference pack.  All pricing is inclusive of GST where
> applicable, and is given in Australian dollars.
>
> "EARLYBIRD" RATES are applicable only to registrations received C.O.B.
> 10 AUGUST 2005 and registrations close on 9th SEPTEMBER, 2005.
>
> REGISTRATION FEES CATEGORY	COST	NUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS
> Academic/Waged 	Earlybird $250 	
> 			Full $280 	
> Student/Concession	Earlybird $180 	
> 				Full $200
> Dinner - Saturday 17/9/05	All attendees $50 	
>
>
> Convenor: Maryrose Casey, ph (07) 33652976 or email
> maryrose.casey at uq.edu.au
> For further information contact: Marilyn Barton, ph (07) 3365 1369 or
> email m.barton at uq.edu.au
> THE SPEAKERS
> Gillian Cowlishaw is a senior research fellow at the University of
> Technology, Sydney. Her original ethnographic research in Arnhem Land
> concentrated on the classical questions of anthropology, the nature and
> meaning of Aboriginal society, especially questions relating to the
> structuring of gender roles and relationships. Since then she has
> focused on the relationship between Indigenous and settler societies,
> and the position of Indigenous people within Australia. She has
> undertaken specific studies of race relations, firstly in country NSW
> from which the main publication was Black, White or Brindle: race in
> rural Australia. Subsequently she conducted an historical ethnography 
> in
> her original field site among the Rembarrnga people of Arnhem Land and
> published Rednecks, Eggheads and Blackfellas: racial power and intimacy
> in Australia in 1999. She has numerous articles in international
> academic journals. Her recent book is Blackfellas Whitefellas: the
> hidden injuries of race (2004).
> Jane Goodall has held positions at several Australian Universities,
> teaching drama and performance, cultural history and history of 
> science.
> She has been an invited speaker at many arts institutions including the
> National Gallery of Australia, the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art,
> the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Artists Week at the
> Adelaide Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Performance
> Space, Sydney. She currently teaches in Humanities at the University of
> Western Sydney and is Research Director for the College of Arts,
> Education and Social Sciences. Author of Artaud and the Gnostic Drama
> (1994 Oxford), and most  recently, Performance and Evolution in the Age
> of Darwin, (2002 Routledge), which won the Rob Jordan Bienniel Prize 
> for
> the best book in theatre and performance studies from the Australasian
> Drama Studies Association.
> Jacqueline Lo is convenor of the Literature, Screen and Theatre Studies
> graduate program at the Australian National University. Her monograph,
> Staging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore was
> published by Hong Kong University Press in 2004. She has published
> extensively in journals such as TDR, Kunapipi, Journal of Commonwealth
> Literature and Australasian Drama Studies, and in edited collections
> such as Alter/Asians (ed. Ien Ang et al, 2001) and Siting the Other 
> (ed.
> Maufort & Belarsi, 2001). She is co-editor of a number of books
> including Impossible Selves: Cultural Readings of Identity (1999),
> Diaspora: Negotiating Asian-Australia (2001), and Resistance and
> Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth (2003). Dr Lo's research
> interests include postcolonial literature and theory, women's theatre,
> and cross-cultural theatre between Asia and Australia.
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Melissa Gregg
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
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