Friday 30 January / Film and Drama Studio (FADS), Arts Two Building (Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS)
09:30 – 10:00 Registration (Location: FADS, Arts Two)
10:00 Welcome and Introductions
10:10 (Panel 1) Dialectics of Nature
- Prof Peter Billingham (University of Winchester), ‘“The Mobius Effect:” Beyond the Binary Boundaries of Dialectical Materialist Analysis’
- Camilla Royle (King’s College London), ‘Complexity, Change and Action: The Dialectical Biologists’
- Chair: TBC
11:05 – 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 (Panel 2) Performing Temporalities
- Katja Geerts (University of Antwerp), ‘Performing Temporalities: Slow Motion as a Dialectical Method in the Choreosophical Work of Rudolf Laban’
- Dr Simon Bowes (University of Greenwich), ‘Diachrony and Heterotopia: Temporality in Kings of England’s Where We Live & What We Live For’
- Chair: Eleanor Massie (Queen Mary)
12:15 (Panel 3) Dialectics and Pedagogy
- Performance Lecture: Dr Katja Hilevaara (Queen Mary) & Dr Emily Orley (University of Roehampton), ‘Making Making Matter: A dialogue about performance and scholarship’
- Provocation Panel: What role can dialectics play in contemporary pedagogy? Respondents: Jenny Duffy (Northumbria University)/ Sarah McCormack (Independent Scholar)/ Eve Wedderburn (Middlesex University)
- Chair: Dr Bridget Escolme (Queen Mary)
13:20 – 14:20 Lunch
14:20 (Panel 4) Materiality of Urban Space
- Dr Campbell Edinborough (University of Hull), ‘Constructing Dialectical Images in Sound and Space: Adapting Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project’
- Cecilie Sachs Olsen (Queen Mary), ‘Materiality as Performance’
- Chair: Dr Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary)
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 (Panel 5) Postdramatic Dialectics
- Dave Calvert (University of Huddersfield), ‘“Everything has a fucking value”: Negative Dialectics in Back to Back’s small metal objects’
- Verónica Rodríguez (University of Barcelona), ‘“Tearing a Hole Through Everything and Everyone”: David Greig’s Theatre’s Dialectics’
- Dr Michael Shane Boyle (Queen Mary), ‘Performance and Dialectical Innovation’
- Chair: Philip Watkinson (Queen Mary)
16:45 (Panel 6) Brecht and Political Performance
- Shane Kinghorn (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Speaking machines: the dialectical voice in contemporary verbatim’
- Dr Christina Papagiannouli (University of South Wales), ‘Directing Dialectics: The Director as Discussion Facilitator’
- Chair: TBC
17:40 – 18:00 Closing Remarks
Convenors: Eleanor Massie & Philip Watkinson
Co-convenor: Hayley Peacock
Performing Dialectics is being hosted by the Departments of Drama and Geography. The event has been generously funded by Queen Mary’s Departments of Drama and Geography; the Arts & Culture Fund; and the Doctorial College Initiative Fund.
