Intersections 2021: Border-Crossings

The fence that surrounded the campus was hardly noticeable from the street and appeared, from the outside, to be more of an attempt at ornamentation than an effort to contain or exclude. Only the students who lived on campus learned, often painfully, that the beauty of a fence is no guarantee that it will not keep one penned in as securely as one that is ugly (Alice Walker, 2011, p.41).

Intersections 2021: Border Crossings will consider the processes through which borders – physical, social, cultural – are constructed, re-drawn and policed in theatre and performance art, as well as the academic study of these forms. What does ‘border-crossing’ look like in theatre and performance? How does our own positionality as performers/researchers/educators affect the spaces we can enter/choose to enter?

PLEASE NOTE:   This conference is open to all, but anyone wishing to attend must register in advance via this Eventbrite link. Registrants will be sent a link to the event, which will all take place on Zoom.

Email: intersections@cssd.ac.uk

Schedule: Friday 14th May

09:55(BST) - Welcome

10:00-11:15(BST) PANEL 1: ‘Creating Space, Medicine and Emotion’

10.00-10.05 – Introduction

10.05-10:20 – Katie Paterson: ‘Lived vs Learned: performing the boundaries of medical knowledge’.

10:20-10:35 – Stephanie Bonnici: ‘Four Theatre Performers met on a Zoom Call: Creating an online theatre performance within the confines of the coronavirus pandemic’.

10:35-10:50 – Rebecca Hayes Laughton: ‘The Role of Love in the Poetry of the Borderline: Why amateurs matter’.

10:50-11:00 – Anna Woolf: ‘Mum’s the word’

11:00-11:15 – Q&A

11:30-12:30(BST) PANEL 2: ‘Contemporary Border-Crossings in Brit(ish) Theatre: Deconstructing genre, reshaping the canon’

11:30-11:35 – Introduction

11:35-11:50 – Önder Çarkirtas: ‘Getting out of the Stereotype: Muslims Across the Borders of British Theatre’.

11:50-12:00 – Leila M. Vaziri: ‘“They’ve built a wall. Plastic wall as high as the canopy”: Fear and the crossing of borders in Thomas Eccleshare’s Pastoral’.

12:00-12:15– Mary Ann Vargas: ‘Barrio, a Latinx variety night’.

12:15-12:30 – Q&A

13:15-14:30(BST) PANEL 3: ‘At the Border: Rethinking parameters on identity and performance’

13:15-13:20 – Introduction

13:20-13:35 – Maja Milatovic-Ovadia: ‘Trespassing’.

13:35-13:45 – Alex Lyons: ‘Crossing Borders: Rethinking gender thought the representations of vulvas in contemporary performance’.

13:45-14:00 – Alison Andrews: ‘Taking an Invitation for a Walk’.

14:00-14:15 – Sarah Ashford Hart: ‘Affective Witnessing: moving-with stories of deportation.

14:15-14.30 – Q&A

14.45-16.00(BST) PANEL 4: ‘Living Borders: Bodies at the margins’

14:45-14:50 – Introduction

14:50-15:00 – Daniel Gonzalez: ‘Gatos in the 15M Movement@ collaborative urban strategies in Madrid’.

15:00-15:15 – Charlie Ely: ‘Conte: an emerging transnational dance movement in late 20th century East Africa’.

15:15-15:30 – Kathryn Stamp ‘Shifting the Lens’ (TBC)

15:30-15:45 – Gurkiran Kaur Wariabharaj: ‘Breaking Old vs Breaking-In New’.

15:45-16:00 – Q&A

16:15-17:30(BST) KEYNOTE: Dr Kene Igweonu ‘The Ignorant Researcher: Transgression as Emancipatory Practice’

17:30(BST) - Conference End.