Performance and Politics

Friday 23 May, 2008
Performance and Politics Research Group

Distinguished Speakers Series
Professor Joe Roach (Yale University): World Performance Project
Monday 2 June 10.30-12.00 Postgraduate Seminar Room, Parry-Williams Building.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Joe Roach has agreed to join us in Aberystwyth during his latest visit to the UK and to give a presentation as a contribution to the Performance and Politics Research Group Distinguished Speakers Series.

Joe is based in the Department of English at Yale University and is an eminent figure in the field of Theatre and Performance Studies. His influential publications include Critical Theory and Performance (1992); Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1997); and “It” (2007). He will introduce his latest endeavour, the World Performance Project.

The Performance and Politics Research Group includes staff from the Departments of Theatre, Film and Television and International Politics and IGES.

For more details please contact Richard Allen rka@aber.ac.uk