Performance and Performativity Research Group

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The Performance and Performativity Research Group aims to expand ‘performativity’ as an analytic scope to bring colleagues at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures together and allow productive conversations regarding performance and performativity that bridge various language and subject areas. It creates links between the theorizations in visual culture that are profoundly connected to performance/performativity, e.g. trauma, archive, and memorialization, and contributes to ethical dialogue at the School by addressing issues including unconscious bias, stereotypes and judgment. A wide range of academic disciplines have contributed to the study of ‘performativity’, including Dance/Theatre/Performance Studies, English, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric and Communication Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, and Gender/Sexuality Studies, amongst others. Performativity here means not only ‘performance’ as an art form, but as a component of various aspects of everyday life – performativity of language, gender/sexuality, race, law, the body, trauma, memory, etc. Employing performativity as an analytic scope, Performance and Performativity is an inclusive community designed to invite colleagues of all subject/language areas and periods and host discussions regarding performance and performativity.

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Durham University
Durham