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, 25 September Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | "Questions" - A.I. 'Morphology' and Labour in Blade Runner (Parker) and There’s Something About Autism: a case study in autistic dramaturgy in playwriting (Wilson) | Talia Parker and Sarah Wilson |
Friday, 9 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at 09-738 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series "Alien Machines" | Prof Simone Natale (George Watson visiting speaker) With Dr Adam Dodd (UQ Digital media) as correspondent |
Friday, 16 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Imagined Pasts (Kim Wilkins) Imagined Futures (Helen Marshall) | Prof Kim Wilkins and A/Prof Helen Marshall |
Friday, 23 October Hybrid: Online via Zoom and in person at SCA Writers' Studio 09-612 | Imagined pasts/imagined futures Seminar series Brisbane’s coming of age expo 88 to Brisbane 2032 | Dr Sarah Thomassen |