DCA Award Winners
2010 (PSi#16)
Full Dwight Conquergood Awards were given to:
Melissa Geppert, University of Minnesota, ‘A Model Slum: Global Exhibition and NGOification of Projeto Morrinho‘
Jazmin Llana, Aberystwyth University, ”Pilgrimage as Utopian Performative for a Post-colonial Counterpublic’
2009 (PSi#15)
Full Dwight Conquergood Awards were given to:
Rivka Eisner, National University of Singapore, ‘Remembering Revolutionary Masquerade: Performing Insurgency and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Colonial (Tres)Passing in Wartime Vietnam’
Sarah Espi-Sanchiz, University of Cape Town, ‘Cultural Regeneration and Cultural Gate-Keeping: the Case of the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona’
Free registrations were awarded to: Tanja Ostojic, Violeta Luna, Barnaby King
2008 (PSi #14)
The winners of the Dwight Conquergood award for 2008 were Rebecca Caines, an emerging scholar from Australia and based in Belfast and Farah Yeganeh and Masoud Nourmohammadian, Activist-artists from Iran.
In her statement to the judges Rebecca writes, ‘Dwight Conquergood left a legacy of community activism and academic rigour that is both inspiring and difficult to live up to. It is a legacy that inspires me, as a young researcher, to continue to aim for new critical tropes and new ways of working with community politics. I strongly believe that community-based performance needs more international critical scholarship and academic partnership.’
In their letter of application, Farah and Masoud write, ‘Our papers, which concern a community excluded from the dominant Globalised agenda and ideology, aim to familiarize other voices, world views, value systems and beliefs with the Iranian community in order that a conversation can be established between this culture and the world. By attending, we make grounds for a kind of interregnum: possibilities about bridging disciplinary frames, cultures and politics between Iran and wider contexts of Performance Studies in the West.’
