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The Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School is a five-day intensive held in the heart of London sponsored by Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Northwestern University. This year, it will take place alongside the Performance Studies International annual conference PSi #29. The summer school focuses on the numerous and alternative ways of knowing that emerge from Black, Global Majority and Indigenous cultures. In this moment of political and social reckoning against colonial and white supremacist ideology that has led to the suppression of any paradigm that is deemed “other,” we as global majority scholars, artists, and activists in the West grapple with our praxis to centre knowing that functions outside of the Eurocentric canon. The programme will bring together prominent international scholars from Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies whose work attends to the politics, practices, and pleasures of how Black, Global Majority and Indigenous epistemologies shape performance thinking and making with postgraduate and doctoral students.
The Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School will explore a range of performance/practice-based and theoretical approaches to Black, Global Majority and Indigenous epistemologies. Texts, performances, and visual art stemming from African American, Caribbean, African, Asian (Southern, Eastern and Southeastern), and Latin American cultures will be included. Students will have the opportunity to attend PSi#29 conference sessions and engage closely with prominent scholars and key ideas from Global Majority performance epistemologies. The programme aims to create a cross-institution interdisciplinary community of scholars in this area.
Programme Detail
Organisers
- Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli - Organiser (Northwestern University)
- Dr Tia-Monique Uzor - Organiser (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
- Dr Tara Aisha Willis (Research Fellow, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
Faculty 2024 TBC
View the 2023 faculty in the 2023 Summer School archive below.
Applications
The Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School is open to Black and Global Majority postgraduate and doctoral students around the world whose work is interested in performance-making and thinking from trajectories of thought rooted in Global Majority cultures
Preference will be given to students based on the following criteria:
Black and Global Majority postgraduate students with a degree in a relevant discipline (Theatre, Dance, or Performance Studies) who are interested in Global Majority performance knowledge
Black and Global Majority doctoral students in a relevant discipline (Theatre, Dance, or Performance Studies) whose research centres Global Majority performance knowledge.
Costs and Bursaries
There is no tuition for the Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School. Students will be responsible for their own travel costs and accommodation whilst attending the programme. The summer school will cover the cost of PSi registration and membership for students who need support.
2 x £2000 bursary contributions for accommodation and travel are available to an international student.
2 x £800 bursary contributions for accommodation and travel are available to a UK student based outside of London.
How to Apply
To apply please complete this form and fill in the information as completely and accurately as possible. Applications for the Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School are due by 2 February 2024.
Successful participants will be notified on 9 February 2024.
Download the information pack
For detailed information on the Performance Epistemologies of The Global Majority programme and faculty please see the information pack below.
Contact
Please direct any questions to tia-monique.uzor@cssd.ac.uk or melissa.blanco@northwestern.edu
2023 Summer School
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Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School 24-28 July 2023
About the 2023 Summer School
Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School focuses on the numerous and alternative ways of knowing that emerge from Black, Global Majority and Indigenous cultures. In this moment of political and social reckoning against colonial and white supremacist ideology that has led to the suppression of any paradigm that is deemed “other,” we as global majority scholars, artists, and activists in the West grapple with our praxis to centre knowing that functions outside of the Eurocentric canon. The programme will bring together prominent international scholars from Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies whose work attends to the politics, practices, and pleasures of how Black, Global Majority and Indigenous epistemologies shape performance thinking and making with postgraduate and doctoral students.
The Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School will explore a range of performance/practice-based and theoretical approaches to Black, Global Majority and Indigenous epistemologies. Texts, performances and visual art stemming from African American, Caribbean, African, Asian (Southern, Eastern and South Eastern), and Latin American cultures will be included. Students will have the opportunity to engage closely with prominent scholars and key ideas from Global Majority performance epistemologies. The programme aims to create a cross-institution interdisciplinary community of scholars in this area.
Faculty
- Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli - Organiser, Mentor and Seminar Leader (Northwestern University)
- Dr Tia-Monique Uzor - Organiser and Seminar Leader (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
- Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz - Keynote and Mentor (Northwestern University)
- Dr Maria Estrada Fuentes - Mentor and Seminar Leader (Royal Holloway)
- Professor Lynette Goddard - Seminar Leader (Royal Holloway)
- Dr Clare Parfitt - Seminar Leader ( University of Chichester)
- Dr Jordan Ealey - Seminar Leader (Rochester University)
- Dr Vanessa Macaulay - Seminar Leader (Anglia Ruskin University)
- Dr Sylvan Baker - Seminar Leader (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
- Jaivant Patel - Seminar Leader (Artistic Director of Jaivant Patel Company)
- Professor Royona Mitra - Seminar Leader (Brunel University