The annual Place of Performance lecture is a collaboration between the HopKins Black Box theatre and the LSU Department of Communication Studies to celebrate the place of live, aesthetic performance in academic research. The annual series brings to campus a distinguished scholar/artist who has placed performance practice at the center of their career for a public lecture on their work.
2024 Lecture
Hydrangeas and Lilacs: Intergenerational Collaboration and Mentorship in Autoethnographic
Performance Studies
By Dr. Craig Gingrich-Philbrook and Dr. Shelby Swafford
November 19, 2024 at 7:30 PM
This lecture/performance will explore intergenerational collaboration as a practice of mutual mentorship that hinges on relational knowledge of a performer’s body of work—the archived body—as well as how a performer’s body works—the body-archive. Situating their collaborative mentorship within their recent productions, “Ways to Say Goodbye” and “Reproductions,” Gingrich-Philbrook and Swafford demonstrate the aesthetic, epistemic, and therapeutic potentials of collaborative autoethnographic performance.
PAST LECTURES
2023
"The Adaptation of Literature as Critical Methodology: Representing Refugees and Asylum-Seekers in The Kite Runner and The Beekeeper of Aleppo"
By Dr. Matthew Spangler
Professor of Performance Studies and Chair of the Film, Theatre, and Dance Department at San José State University in California
2022
"From Field to Stage to Screen:
Multimodal Methodologies in the Making of Sweet Tea"
By Dr. E. Patrick Johnson
Dean of Northwestern University's School of Communication
CONTACT
Questions about lecture? Suggestions for future speakers? Email the HBB Manager or HBB Graduate Assistant.