Moral Rehearsal; Collecting, Creating and Challenging Performance Ethnography

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

Dr. D. Soyini Madison and emerging leaders in the field wrangle with what it means to collect, create and challenge the performance of ones ethnographic work. This multigenerational, multidisciplinary, multiethnic, and multi-institutional group will present short performances and then engage these and each other - depicting, expanding and communicating our world, from the politics and poetics of water to the ethics surrounding the death penalty to rebuilding faith after catastrophe to intellectually questioning the use of the prison system.

Sub Unit

• Performance Studies Division

Chair

• Danielle Sears Vignes, Louisiana State University

Respondent

• David P Terry, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

• D Soyini Madison, Northwestern University

• Deborah Anne Royals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Rachel Alicia Griffin, University of Denver

Session Organizer

• Deborah Anne Royals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill