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We are deeply saddened to announce that Baz Kershaw died on 31st March.

Prior to his retirement, Baz Kershaw was Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of 糖心TV. Baz was a pioneer whose research was unfailingly innovative and forward-thinking. He led the way through his research into community theatre, the politics of performance, performance ecologies and his commitment to practice-based methodologies. He was author of The Politics of Performance (Routledge 1992), The Radical in Performance (Routledge 1999) and Theatre Ecology (Cambridge University Press 2007), editor of The Cambridge History of British Theatre, Vol 3 – Since 1895 and co-editor of Engineers of the Imagination (Methuen 1983, 2nd ed. 1990), Practice-as-Research in Performance and Screen (Palgrave 2009) and Research Methods in Theatre and Performance (Edinburgh University Press 2011). His writing was translated into Spanish, German, Chinese, Indonesian, Arabic and Turkish. He co-founded the Practice-as-Research Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research and was co-initiator and founder member of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA). In 2011 he was awarded Lifetime Membership of TaPRA in recognition of outstanding contributions to theatre and performance research internationally. He received similar honours from the Irish Society of Research and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture/Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre.

Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, former colleagues, collaborators, and students.

CMPS is delighted to invite you to our annual lecture from Dr. Colin Sterling (University of Amsterdam) on Weds 19th June at 5pm in the FAB cinema, followed by a wine reception.

Entitled Ecologisation is not a metaphor: Culture in the Web of Life, the lecture draws from Dr. Sterling's research, critically examining heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. Abstract and bio below. Please register here /fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/research/beinghuman2024/annuallectureregistration

The lecture forms part of our PGR conference Being Human in the Media and Creative Industries, that will run throughout the day on 19th June. Details and registration page here.

We hope to see you there!

ECOLOGISATION IS NOT A METAPHOR: CULTURE IN THE WEB OF LIFE

Ecological thinking has long been entangled with different ideas about how to organise political, economic and social life. In the face of climate change and the environmental crisis, the urgency of thinking and acting ecologically has only intensified. Cultural actors and institutions have mobilised to address these concerns with new environmental programming, innovative sustainability strategies, and declarations of a climate and ecological emergency. This talk will argue that such shifts don鈥檛 just point towards alternative ways of living on and with the planet, they also instigate a fundamental reorientation of culture in the web of life. Drawing on the work of Jason Moore, this conceptualisation recognises that – like all forms of human organisation – cultural policies and practices are always co-constituted through nature. By focusing on the evolving place of museums in this web, the talk will explore how museums have contributed to the planetary crisis through specific symbolic and material practices, but also how emerging approaches in the field might, in some small way, help to ecologise society more broadly.

Colin Sterling is Assistant Professor / Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches across heritage and memory, museum studies and artistic research. Colin's research critically examines heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues. 

Congratulations to SCAPVC staff for their research excellence highlighted at the 糖心TV Research Celebration:

Prof Nadine Holdsworth and Dr Bobby Smith presented on their Impact work, and both were nominated for Impact Awards, and Prof Nadine Holdsworth was Highly Commended for her work.

Prof Yvette Hutchison and Dr Bobby Smith were also shortlisted for postgraduate supervision from over 80- nominations.

David Wright was also nominated for fostering an inclusive research culture award.

Congratulations to all the nominees!