Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School 24-28th July 2023

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

The Performance Epistemologies of the Global Majority Summer School is a five-day intensive held in the heart of London at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. The summer school focuses on the numerous and alternative ways of knowing that emerge from Black, Global Majority and Indigenous cultures. In this moment of political and social reckoning against colonial and white supremacist ideology that has led to the suppression of any paradigm that is deemed “other,” we as global majority scholars, artists, and activists in the West grapple with our praxis to centre knowing that functions outside of the Eurocentric canon.

Each day, postgraduate and doctoral students will engage closely with key ideas from Global Majority performance epistemologies in sessions led by prominent international scholars and artists whose work attends to the politics, practices, and pleasures of how Black, Global Majority and Indigenous knowledge shape performance thinking and making. Summer school sessions include seminar workshops, keynote speakers, mentoring sessions with our summer school mentors, excursions to performances and exhibitions in London, and social community-building opportunities.

Faculty

Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli - Organiser, Mentor and Seminar Leader (Northwestern University)

Dr Tia-Monique Uzor- Organiser and Seminar Leader  (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)

Professor Thomas F. DeFrantz - Keynote and Mentor (Northwestern University)

Dr  Maria Estrada Fuentes - Mentor and Seminar Leader (Royal Holloway)

Professor Lennox Goddard - Seminar Leader (Royal Holloway)

Dr Clare Parfitt - Seminar Leader ( University of Chichester)

Dr Jade Ealey - Seminar Leader (Rochester University)

Dr Vanessa Macaulay - Seminar Leader (Anglia Ruskin University)

Dr Sylvan Baker- Seminar Leader (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)

Jaivant Patel - Seminar Leader (Artistic Director of Jaivant Patel Dance)

Professor Royona Mitra - Seminar Leader (Brunel University)