Performance Research: dialogues, questions and forms of practice
Friday 24 April 2026, 2pm
Learning Centre (00.018), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, OX2 6GG
The Performance Research Hub celebrates research relating to performance from across the Humanities Division. Join us for an afternoon of conversations and questions, contributing the opening of the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, home to TORCH and the Cultural Programme.
All welcome.
2pm
Welcome and introductions - Professor Laura Tunbridge (Music) and Alex Coke (Theatre & Performance Research Partnerships Manager)
2.15 - 2.45pm
Dr Katharina Herold-Zanker (Visiting scholar): Twisting Tongues: Feminist Theory and Contemporary Drama (2000-present)
Dr Em Welton (English): Queer-Feminist Performance Histories at The Drill Hall Arts Centre
2.50 - 3.20pm
Professor Kirsten Shepherd (English): Ibsen's Avalanches
Professor Wes Williams (MML): Emily Woof's Blizzard
3.20 - 3.30pm
Break
3.30 - 4pm
Professor David de Roure (DiSC): Music & AI
Professor Philip Bullock and Professor Joanna Neilly (MML): Clara and the Nutcracker
