Announcements
MONDAY, NOV. 19 at 4pm in Bartlett 316
INFORMATIONAL SESSION ON August 2008 Two-Week Course on the Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival.
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The Five College Faculty Seminar in Performance Studies is co-sponsoring the
Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology this year. The guest is Dr. Alaina
Lemon, a cultural anthropologist from University of Michigan. The talk is
on Monday, Oct. 16, from 5-7pm in Gordon Hall (3rd floor). A reception
will follow the talk.
Here are the fascinating details:
Professor Lemon's talk is titled, "Time, space, and the traumas of others
in 'Putin's Russia.'" Her presentation explores lingering cold war
commonsense notions of time, space, and empathy in post-socialist Russia.
To do so, Lemon connects her recent ethnographic research at the Russian
Theatrical Academy in Moscow (during a period when public performances
were targeted by terrorists) with analyses of political discourse in print
and broadcast media.
Alaina Lemon has a distinguished record of research on theatre, performance,
race and ethnicity, and the politics of everyday life in post-Soviet
Russia. Her theoretical concerns lie mainly with ways to understand
struggles over aesthetic techniques and communicative forms in
relation to struggles over political change and social hierarchies.
She has conducted research in theaters, film sets, government bureaus,
street markets, and kitchens, as well as in archives and with media.
Her book, Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from
Pushkin to Postsocialism (Duke, 2000), received the the AAASS
(American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies) Wayne S.
Vucinich Book Award and the AAASS Heldt Book Prize for 2001. Her
current research explores emotion, terror, and trauma in contemporary
Russian theatre.
Please see the Seminar section for upcoming seminars.
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