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Dr. Susan Haedicke published ‘Performing Farmscapes on Urban Streets’ in Popular Entertainment Studies 7.1-2 (2016): 93-113. The article looks at four street theatre interventions by Le Phun, Opéra Pagaï, Friches Théâtre Urbain and Fallen Fruit, that suggest possible future urban farmscapes in familiar present-day locations. It explores how these performance-based projects highlight contemporary social issues around alternative agricultural practices and propose imaginative provocations to world-wide concerns around food security by proposing ephemeral urban farms in unexpected city sites and restoring the efficacy of an agricultural “commons” where resources and tasks are shared.

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Dr. Anna Harpin has published (along with Dr. Helen Nicholson) a new co-edited collection entitled Performance and Participation.

The collection gathers together leading voices in theatre and performance studies to debate the politics of participation across a range of performative forms - community theatre, live art, applied theatre, one-to-one performance and marathon running - and to find points of connection between them.

The volume is published by Palgrave Macmillan and you can find out more about it

New International Partnership with JNU

Cultures of the Left: Manifestations and Performances

Funded by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Award, this three-year project explores:

• What is the legacy and current potential of the Cultural Left to perform the possibility ‘that the world can be otherwise’ (Buck-Morss)?
• How do manifestations and performances of the Cultural Left negotiate and adapt to various ideological frameworks?
• How has the cultural repertoire of the Left enabled cross-cultural influences and mutations in the performances of activism?

Led by Dr Silvija Jestrovic as Principal Investigator, with Professor Bishnuprya Dutt from JNU as the co-investigator, the partnership brings together scholars in theatre and performance studies with researchers in social and political sciences from both 糖心TV and JNU working in different cultural contexts (i.e. UK, India, USA, Eastern and Southern Europe, Latin America, China) and focusing on the variaty of aspects of the Cultural Left. Through research meetings and workshops, joint publications and guest lectures, the collaboration will not only set an interdisciplinary research framework, but also enable a unique cross-cultural and comparativist approach to identify what constitutes the global Left as an arena of cultural practice.

Jim Davis's book Comic Acting an Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England was announced as a finalist in this year's Theatre Library Association George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance.

His book theatre & entertainment has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan.