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: 

1. Bring together researchers whose work might not sit comfortably in any particular faculty or discipline, or whose interest in performance might not be fully supported by existing curricular, institutional, or funding structures
2. Generate new cross-disciplinary projects, initiatives, and pedagogical programmes in performance / performance studies, aiming to build new platforms and opportunities for performance research.

 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

Contact: performance@torch.ox.ac.uk

Academic Lead: Professor Gascia Ouzounian

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Our Steering Committee is comprised of early career to established researchers from across Humanities subjects whose work represents a broad array of interests in performance research. Its purpose is to oversee the activities of the Hub, and to identify areas for potential growth in performance research and study in the university. Its membership is on a rotational basis; its activities are supported by Helen Dallas (DPhil student coordinator), an Academic Lead, the Theatre & Performance Research Partnerships Manager at TORCH, the TORCH Operations Manager, Head of Public Engagement (Humanities), and the Director of TORCH. 
 
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.