Publications, Presentations and Completed Theses by Network Members

Journal Issue

Helen Gilbert and Sophie Nield (eds) ‘Performance and Asylum: Ethics, Embodiment, Community’. A special issue of Research in Drama Education 13.2 (2008)

Contents:

Gilbert, Helen and Sophie Nield (2008) ‘Editorial’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 133–36.

Nield, Sophie (2008) ‘The Proteus Cabinet, or “we are Here but not Here”’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 137–46.

Gluhovic, Milija (2008) ‘Too distant shores: the Strait of Gibraltar and the space of exception’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 147–58.

Jestrovic, Silvija (2008) ‘Performing like an asylum seeker: paradoxes of hyper-authenticity’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 159–70.

Myers, Misha (2008) ‘Situations for living: performing emplacement’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 171–80.

Hazou, Rand (2008) ‘Refugitive and the theatre of dys-appearance’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 181–86.

Wake, Caroline (2008) ‘Through the (in)visible witness in Through the Wire’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 187–92.

Cox, Emma (2008) ‘The intersubjective witness: trauma testimony in Towfiq Al-Qady’s Nothing But Nothing: One Refugee’s Story’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 193–98.

Williams, David (2008) ‘Performing refugee policy in politics and theatre’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 199–204.

Fisek, Emine (2008) ‘Le dernier Cartoucherie: refuge and the performance of care’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 205–10.

Dennis, Rea (2008) ‘Refugee performance: aesthetic representation and accountability in playback theatre’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 211–16.

Jeffers, Alison (2008) ‘Dirty truth: personal narrative, victimhood and participatory theatre work with people seeking asylum’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 217–22.

Farrier, David (2008) ‘The journey is the film is the journey: Michael Winterbottom’s In This World’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 223–32.

Burvill, Tom (2008) ‘“Politics begins as ethics”: Levinasian ethics and Australian performance concerning refugees’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 233–44.

Salverson, Julie (2008) ‘Taking liberties: a theatre class of foolish witnesses’. Research in Drama and Education 13.2: 245–56.

Selected Journal Articles

Cox, Emma, and Helen Gilbert. ‘Territories of Contact and Care: Two Australian Asylum Documentaries’. Moving Worlds (2012) (forthcoming)

Cox, Emma. ‘Welcome to Country? Aboriginal Sovereignties and Asylum Seekers’. Australian Studies 2011 (forthcoming).

Cox, Emma. ‘Dialogue and Decentralisation in Australian Asylum Anthologies’. Life Writing 7.3 (2010): 285–302.

Cox, Emma. ‘The Citation of Injury: Regarding the Exceptional Body’. Journal of Australian Studies 33.4 (2009): 459–72.

Dennis, Rea (2008) ‘Big Clumsy Feet Stomping all Over: Shame, Caution, and Fear in Performance for Peacebuilding’. Studies in Theatre and Performance 29.1 (2009): 53-66.

Dennis, Rea (2007) ‘Inclusive Democracy: A Consideration of Playback Theatre with Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Australia’. Research in Drama and Education 12.3: 355–70.

Hazou, Rand (2009) ‘Refugee Advocacy and the Theatre of Inclusion’. About Performance 9.

Hunter, Mary Ann (2008) ‘Cultivating the Art of Safe Space’. Research in Drama and Education 13.1: 5–21.

Jeffers, Alison (2006) ‘Refugee perspectives: the practice and ethics of verbatim theatre and refugee stories’. Platform 1: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform

Jeffers, Alison (2007) ‘Half-hearted promises or wrapping ourselves in the flag: two approaches to the pedagogy of citizenship’. Research in Drama and Education 12.3: 371–81.

Williams, David (2007) ‘Performance, Politicians, and War: Selling Iraq in the culture war’. Performance Paradigm 3: http://www.performanceparadigm.net/category/journal/issue-3/

Williams, David (2006) ‘Political Theatrics in the Fog of War’. Australasian Drama Studies 48: 115–29.

Selected Book Chapters

Gilbert, Helen (2007) ‘Performance and Asylum: Ethics, Embodiment, Efficacy’. Performance and Cosmopolitics: Cross-cultural Transactions in Australasia. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 186–206.

Jeffers, Alison (2010) ‘Performance in Place of War: Refugee Artists and Communities in the U.K.’ Changes in Museum Practice: New Media, Refugees and Participation. Ed. Hanne-Lovise Skartveit and Katherine Goodnow. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

Jeffers, Alison (2009) ‘Looking for Esrafil: the appearance and disappearance of ‘refugitive’ bodies in I’ve got something to show you’. Get Real: Documentary theatre past and present. Eds. Chris Megson and Alison Forsythe. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

McAuley, Gay. (2007) ‘Villawood Detention Centre’. Contested Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place. Ed. Gay McAuley. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Selected Papers and Presentations

Cox, Emma. (2011) ‘Manaakitanga, Welcome to Country? Refugees, Overstayers and the Meanings of Indigeneity in Australia and Aotearoa–New Zealand’. 26 January. Postcolonial Empires seminar series, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge.

Cox, Emma. (2010) ‘Welcome to Country: Aboriginality and Asylum in Contemporary Australia’. CHOTRO Three: Local Knowledge – Global Translations, Imagination and Images of Indigenous Communities in the Twenty-first Century, Bhasha Research and Publications Centre, Delhi and Shimla, India, 11-17 September.

Cox, Emma. (2008) ‘The Citation of Injury: Regarding the Exceptional Body’. New Voices, New Visions: Challenging Australian Identities and Legacies, International Australian Studies Association Conference, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 26–28 November.

Dennis, Rea (2008) ‘Public performance, personal story: playback theatre, social dialogic and cultural production’. Theoretical, Methodological and Political Implications on Doing Research Among Refugees Conference, London, 7–8 March.

Dennis, Rea (2006) ‘Memory, Movement, Muscle: Autobiography and asylum seeker performances’. TaPRA Conference, Central School of Speech & Drama, London 4–5 September.

Fisek, Emine. (2009) ‘Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration, Performance and Publics in Contemporary France’. Conference of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, in association with the American Anthropological Association. 2–5 December.

Gilbert, Helen (2007) ‘Second-hand Stories: Performance, Asylum and the Cosmopolitics of Hope’. European Association of Australian Studies Conference, Copenhagen.

Gilbert, Helen (2006) ‘Global or Local: Ariane Mnouchkine’s Le Dernier Caravanserail in Australia’. International Federation of Theatre Research Conference, Helsinki, August.

Gluhovic, Milija (2009) ‘Cosmopolitanism.’ Moving Worlds/Moving Words.

Hazou, Rand (2006) ‘The Body in Extremis: Asylum Seekers and the Theatre of Dysappearance’. Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, Melbourne, July.

Hazou, Rand (2006) ‘Being Absent: Political Theatre and Asylum Seeker Performance’. Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, Sydney, July.

Jeffers, Alison (2005) ‘Refugee Perspectives: the practice and ethics of verbatim theatre and refugee stories’. Perspectives, Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, 15 May.

Jeffers, Alison (2006) ‘Refugee performance? Performing Refugeeness’. Fallout Conference, University of New South Wales (via live internet link), 12 December.

Jeffers, Alison (2006) ‘The ontological pause: Performing Britishness in Manchester Registry Office’. Researching Cultural Spaces Postgraduate Symposium, Queen Mary and Royal Holloway, University of London, 3 June.

Jeffers, Alison (2007) ‘ Performing Refugeeness/Staging Refugees’. War in our World International Conference , University of Manchester, 19–21 July.

Jeffers, Alison (2007) ‘Refugee theatre and performance in the UK’. An Unsettled Future? Forced Migration and Refugee Studies in the 21st Century International Conference , University of Oxford, 7–8 December.

Jestrovic, Silvija (2007) 'Exilic Happening'. Performance Studies International Conference, New York.

Jestrovic, Silvija (2008) 'Immigrant and the City: (Dis) embodied bodies, nomadic spaces, and Gypsy-Punk'. Performance Studies International Conference, Copenhagen.

Nield, Sophie (2007) ‘Dematerialised Zones: the border as theatrical paradox’. American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Phoenix.

Nield, Sophie (2007) ‘Exceptional Borders: Space, citizenship and the problem of appearance’. American Theatre in Higher Education Conference, New Orleans.

Szeman, Ioana. (2007) ‘Dancing to Gypsy Music, from Cargo to the Barbican: Romani Musicians, Performance and Young Audiences’. Creolizing Europe Conference, University of Manchester, September.

Szeman, Iona. (2007) ‘Gypsy Music and Avant-garde Performance: The Role of Performance in Romani Self-definition in Romania Today’.Performance Studies International conference, New York, November.

Wake, Caroline (2006) ‘Documenting the Disappearing Bodies: Modes of Memory in Asylum-Seeker Performance in Australia’. Fallout Symposium, University of New South Wales, October.

Wake, Caroline (2007) ‘Hauntings’. Postgraduate Symposium, University of New South Wales, October and ADSA Conference, University of Melbourne, July.

Wake, Caroline (2007) ‘Witnessing Degree Zero: Performance, Disappearance and the SIEV X’. Performance Studies International, New York University, November 2007.

Wake, Caroline (2008) ‘Interrogating Refugees: Risk and Repetition in Verbatim Theatre’. Interrogating Trauma Conference, Curtin University, 2–4 December.

Williams, David (2006) ‘Admiral Smith on “these people”: an “Emotionally Illiterate” Performance of Professionalism’. PSi #12: Performing Rights, Queen Mary University of London, 14–18 June.

Williams, David (2006) ‘Culture/War: Performing the case for war’. Fallout Symposium, School of Media Film and Theatre, UNSW, Sydney, 22 November.

Williams, David (2006) ‘Cutting and running? Keeping pace with the political and theatrical spinning of the Iraq War’. ‘Extreme States’, ADSA Annual Conference, University of Melbourne, July. 

Williams, David (2007) ‘Performing citizenship; OR How to use theatre to explore the sweaty armpits of the Australian body politic’. Roll Up Your Sleeves: A Practical Conference for Working Drama Teachers. Association of Independent Schools, NSW, Sydney, 24–25 March.

Williams, David (2007) ‘Re-staging scandal: the perils and pleasures of reenactment in the theatre of version 1.0’. ‘Enact’, Experimental Histories and Cultural Memory Program of the Transforming Cultures Research Strength, University of Technology, Sydney, 14 December.

Williams, David (2008) ‘Navigational hazards: making theatre from obstructionist language in Deeply offensive and utterly untrue’. A Sense of Place: ADSA Annual Conference, University of Otago, June 30–July 3.

Completed Theses

Cox, Emma. ‘Affect, Belonging, Community: Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Performance and Writing in post-2001 Australia’ (PhD, Australian National University).

Fisek, Emine. ‘Incorporating Immigrants: Theatrical Aid Work and the Politics of Witnessing in France’. (PhD, University of California, Berkeley).

Hazou, Rand. ‘Acting for Asylum: Asylum Seeker and Refugee Theatre in Australia 2000-2005’. (PhD, La Trobe University, Melbourne).

Jeffers, Alison. ‘Theatre and Performance about, with and by Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK’. (PhD, University of Manchester).

Muir, Tina. ‘Applied Theatre with Refugee Youth’. (MA, Royal Holloway, University of London).

Wake, Caroline. ‘Performing Witness: Trauma, Testimony, Theatricality’. (PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney).