Na stsenu! From the Footnotes to the Footlights - A Performance Showcase of Creative Research

Session Submission Type: Ancillary Event

Brief Description

With the goal of building bridges between academia and the arts industry, a diverse group of scholars who are also performing arts practitioners present a showcase of early-stage research-based creative projects in an evening performance event open to ASEEES attendees and the public. Embracing the Convention’s theme of Liberation, this event aims to explore possibilities beyond traditional academic discourse, facilitating arts-based creative research projects that can reveal new perspectives on scholarship while offering new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and more effective public engagement. The showcase will present excerpts from new theatrical works by researchers Jake Robertson (U of Oxford), Clark Moore (U of Edinburgh), Diego Moschkovich (U of São Paolo), and Fiona Bell (Yale). The performance will cover a range of topics, including Black American entertainers in Stalin’s Soviet Union, queer love in the Gulag theater, anti-war performance in contemporary Russia, and Tolstoy and the Russian peasantry. The hour-long variety showcase will be followed by a talk-back led by Alisa Ballard Lin (Ohio State) with a discussion about the inspiration behind the creative projects and plans for further development.

Sub Unit

• Ancillary Events

Chair

• Alisa Ballard Lin, Ohio State U

Featuring

• Jake A. Robertson, U of Oxford (UK)

• Clark Moore, U of Edinburgh (UK)

• Diego Moschkovich, U of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

• Fiona Bell, Yale U