Call for Curriculum Grant Proposals The PublicsLab received funding from the Mellon Foundation to transform doctoral education in the humanities for the public good. The Doctoral […]
I wanted to quickly offer some reading on this topic. In “Hatred of Democracy” the French aesthetic/political philosopher Jacques Ranciere reconsiders the notion of democracy in more emancipatory terms. He thinks […]
I was thankful for this window into the mechanics of social reproduction, and political opportunities that this kind of analysis opens. I felt compelled by the strategic virtue of withholding socially reproductive […]
I would like to consider the notion of “anticapitalism” broadly through a performative lens, in a manner that relates to the premises underlying Questions 1 and 3. I […]
Having been invited as a participating guest to the Madách International Theatre Meeting (MITEM) for four days, I was somewhat curious about the festival program on offer in a country that has become something of […]
When Rufus Norris replaced the popular Nick Hytner as director of the British National Theatre in 2016, there was a certain amount of apprehension. Although Norris had produced a number of exciting and innovative […]
On the tenth day of each month, manifestations and counter-manifestations are organized in Poland commemorating the 2010 plane crash in Smolensk, in which Polish President Lech Kaczyński and over 90 other persons […]
The Berlin theatre scene in the months of October and November is an embarrassment of riches. Major theatres open several new premieres and offer works from their repertory: radical interpretations of classical […]
Watching Lluís Homar’s Cyrano in a new adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play at Barcelona’s Borràs theatre, the ghosts of the actor’s earlier roles tumble out in quick succession. The wispy, thinning grey hair […]