Building Reconciliation and Social Cohesion
through Indigenous Festival Performance
17–18 November 2011
Paris
This symposium seeks to explore contemporary indigenous performances as transformative practices aimed at enhancing social cohesion. It focuses specifically on the role of festivals in advancing reconciliation efforts and investigates how such events contribute to reimagining communities and rebuilding trust. With reference to the philosophical, historical and religious roots of reconciliation, the symposium will look at the tensions and affects involved in performances that engage with (hi)stories of colonialism and contemporary formations of injustice. We also seek to probe the conditions that enable festival arts to flourish in their own contexts and to be taken from local to national and transnational forums. The role, and limits, of festivals as resonant interfaces where emancipative strategies, wellbeing, creativity and indigenous cultural capital are promoted are of particular interest here. Responding to current debates on the question of reconciliation and social justice, the symposium hopes to provide comparisons of various artistic, community-driven, cross-cultural and trans-local initiatives.
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Thursday 17 – Friday 18 November 2011
University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP)
9-11 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris (Metro station: Invalides)
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Anton Krueger (South Africa)
Marie-Claude Tjibaou (New Caledonia)
Documentary Tjibaou – Reconciliation (Tjibaou-Le Pardon)
Estelle Castro and Helen Gilbert
estelle.castro@rhul.ac.uk
Participants and Abstracts (pdf) and Final Programme (pdf).
Registration includes lunches, coffee-breaks and programme.
Full registration £45. Postgraduate and unwaged £30.
Numbers for this event are strictly limited. Confirmed paper givers and round-table participants should fill in the registration form and send it to Estelle. Others wanting to attend please email Estelle with an expression of interest and a brief description of your research areas.
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Funded by the ERC project Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Politics, Performance, Belonging
Directed by Professor Helen Gilbert, Centre for International Theatre and Performance Research (CITPR)
Royal Holloway College, University of London
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