Theatre of possibilities: exploring hope in applied theare contexts
This seminar will explore recent ARC-funde d research projects that used a range of performance and digital arts strategies with specific groups, including newly arrived refugees, individuals with dementia, prisoners and returning service personnel.
Professor Michael Balfour is Chair and Professor of Applied Theatre at Griffith University. Michael’s research explores theatre and multi-arts approaches in a range of social and community contexts. He has a particular interest in how theatre responds to war and conflict, and in the broad area of arts and social health. He is the series editor of the Methuen Applied Theatre series, and his most recent publications include Applied Theatre: Resettlement, Drama, Refugees and Resilience (2015) and a Special Edition of the Arts and Health Journal: Arts, Social Health and the Military (2015).
*Note: A recording of this seminar will be available on request.
About Research Seminar and Workshop Series
School of Communication and Arts Research Seminar Series
The research seminar and workshop series occur each semester, each with a different topic and guest speaker from UQ or otherwise.
Friday, 28 February Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Generative Hate | |
Friday, 21 March Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Close Encounters of the Hermeneutic Kind: UFOs as More-than-Human Media | |
Friday, 11 April Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems and Community Radio in India | A/Prof Elske van de Fliert |
Friday, 23 May Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | The Drama Of Anthropological History | |
Friday, 6 June Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Video, Bias, Action. Mitigating Cognitive Biases through Role-Play Video Scenarios | |
Thursday, 31 July Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Experiments in Public Engagement | Prof Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford University) |
Friday, 8 August Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at the | Designing engagement for coral reef rescue | A/Prof Elske van de Fliert and Dr Skye Doherty |
