Performance Research Hub
The Performance Research Hub is for anyone in the university who has interests in performance as a subject or mode of research.
‘Performance’ is construed as broadly as possible, to allow for synergies to develop between diverse interests and ways of working. For example, performance might encompass anything from poetry, theatre, dance, film, music, performance art, and performance studies to concepts, theories, histories, pedagogies, politics, and technologies of performance.
The Performance Research Hub will:
- Bring together researchers, including those whose work might transcend or reach across a particular faculty or discipline, or whose interest in performance might not be fully supported by existing curricular, institutional, or funding structures;
- Generate new cross-disciplinary projects, initiatives, and pedagogical programmes in performance / performance studies, aiming to build new platforms and opportunities for performance research both in and beyond the new Schwarzman Centre for The Humanities.
Our activities will include:
- a regular forum for sharing work and work-in-progress with fellow researchers, building opportunities for learning across disciplines and generating interdisciplinary collaborations;
- public-facing events including performances, seminars, conversations, screenings, and more
The Performance Research Hub connects and builds on existing and previous initiatives at TORCH including the Reimagining Performance Network, DANSOX, Humanities and Performance Headline series, the Song Network, Caribbean Studies Network, and many more.
To sign up to our mailing list, email performance-research-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk
Contact: performance@torch.ox.ac.uk
Academic Lead: Professor Gascia Ouzounian
DPhil support: Helen Dallas
