WHOSE CITY? A WEBINAR SERIES ON THEATRE AND GENTRIFICATION
“Whose City?” is a new Webinar Series organized by the members of “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City”, a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grant Program. Combining multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, our goal is to analyze the relationship between theatre practices and urban transformation in five European metropoles in the twenty-first century: London, Berlin, Paris, Warsaw, and Istanbul. Theatre, we propose, is central to understanding the cultural politics of urban transformation today. In turn, contemporary cities, where culture is part and parcel of a new productive economy, are key to understanding theatre.
In “Whose City?”, we bring together both emerging and established scholars working at the intersection of Theatre and Performance Studies and Urban Studies and exploring the use of social science methodologies in humanities research. Together, we ask: what is the relationship between theatre and the twenty-first century city? And how do we document this elusive bond?
When: Mondays @ 6 pm (CET)
Event Duration: 60-75 min.
Language: English
ZOOM: https://bit.ly/4dvd7lD
SPEAKERS:
Oct 28, 2024 – Katie Beswick
Tenancy, Theatre and Gentrification in London
Nov 18, 2024 – Ziad Adwan
Exceptional Theatre in a Time of Exception: Theatre Houses in Modern Syria
February 10, 2025 – Marjorie Glas
In Search of the People: Public Theatre in France since 1945
March 10, 2025 – Brandon Woolf
Considerations on the Berlin Theater Situation: 35 Years Later
April 14, 2025 – Paweł Płoski
Waiting for a Copernican Turn: Public and NGO Theaters in Warsaw
The “Theatre and Gentrification in the European City” project consortium includes the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama of the University of London, the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and the American University of Paris.
For more information:
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/projects/theagent/webinar
Emine Fisek