Keynote Speakers

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  Keynote

  Dr Drew Milne Webpage

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  Keynote: Whither Dialectical Theatre? Confronting Nazism Then and Now

  Dr David Barnett Webpage , Abstract

  David Barnett is Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex. He has published monographs on Heiner Müller (Peter Lang, 1998) and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (CUP, 2005), the latter as a Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. "A History of the Berliner Ensemble and Brecht in Practice: Theatre, Theory and Performance" will be published in the coming months and are the major results of a project funded by a British Academy Research Development Award and an AHRC Fellowship. He has written several articles and essays on German, English-language, political and postdramatic theatre.

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  Keynote: State of affairs and challenges of political theatre in a neoliberal era in France

  Dr Bérénice Hamidi Kim Webpage , Abstract

  Bérénice Hamidi-Kim is a lecturer in theatrical studies at Lyon 2 University. She has published many papers about political theatre, and a book entitled Les Cités du théâtre politique en France depuis 1989, préface de Luc Boltanski Montpellier, L'Entretemps, 2013.

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  Keynote: Performance, the Academy, and the Politics of Austerity

  Prof. Victor Merriman Webpage, Abstract

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  Keynote: Getting a Grip in the Theatre Houses of Europe

  Prof. Maria Shevtsova Webpage1 , Webpage2

  Maria Shevtsova is the Chair Professor of Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London, having previously held Chairs at the University of Lancaster (Founding Chair of Theatre Studies) and the University of Connecticut. She is Dr. honoris causa of the University of Craiova. Maria Shevtsova is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters in collected volumes, among them The Routledge Companion to Directors’ Shakespeare (2008). Her books include Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre: Process to Performance (2004), Fifty Key Theatre Directors (2005, co-ed), Jean Genet: Performance and Politics (2006, co-ed), Robert Wilson (2007), Directors/Directing: Conversations on Theatre (2009, co-authored) Sociology of Theatre and Performance (2009), which assembles three decades of her pioneering work in a field she has established, and The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Directing (2013, co-authored with Christopher Innes). Her publications have been translated into ten languages, most recently Robert Wilson into Mandarin (2013) and Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre into Russian (2014). She is co-editor of New Theatre Quarterly and part of the editorial team of Critical Stages, the on-line journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. She has been a Guest Professor at a number of major institutions in Europe, including the Saint-Petersburg State Academy of Theatre Arts and is a Fellow of the International Research Centre ‘Interweaving Performance Cultures’ at the Freie Universität, Berlin.

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  Interview/Roundtable Discussion with Professor Hélène Cixous.
  Panel: Prof. Marta Segarra (University of Barcelona), Dr Eric Prenowitz (University of Leeds), Dr Eva Urban (University of Cambridge), Dr Joseph Long (University College Dublin), Prof. Maria Shevtsova (Goldsmiths, University of London).

  Prof. Hélène Cixous biography