Conferences

2021: Performing Assembly as Political Theatre”, paper presented at Conference “Dialogue, Performance and the Body Politic in the Twenty-First Century”, Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Zoom, 5-6 February.

2020: Hole (2018) by Ellie Kendrick/RashDash as Ecofeminist”, provocation presented at the Conference “The New Wave of British Women Playwrights Experimenting with Forms”, Sorbonne Université, Faculté des Lettres, Zoom, 11-12 December.

2020: Respondent with a three-minute provocation at Arts, Health & Wellbeing symposium “From Feeling to Knowing – Putting Imagination and Lived Experience at the Heart of Understanding Illness”, King’s College London, Teams, 3 December 2020. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/from-feeling-to-knowing-symposium

2020: “Representing Endometriosis: My Sick Body and Spectatorship”, creative contribution presented at the ConferenceRepresenting Women’s Health”, University of Glasgow, Zoom, 12 June.

2019: “Unhousedness: Zinnie Harris’ This Restless House as Feminist Adaptation”, paper presented at the “International Playwriting Symposium: Zinnie Harris”, University of Lincoln, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre, 22-23 November.

2019: (with Duška Radosavljević, Trish Reid and Marilena Zaroulia): panelist at the “Book Launch: David Greig’s Holed Theatre: Globalization, Ethics and the Spectator”, moderated by Dan Rebellato, Centre for Contemporary British Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London, 23 October.

2019: Crisis Ecology: Migratory Aesthetics in The Container, The Suppliant Women, and Dear Home Office”, paper presented at “Theatre of Crisis: Aesthetic Responses to a Cross‐Sectional Condition”, 28th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Graz, 20–23 June.

2019: “Uncontaining the Refugee Crisis in The Container, The Suppliant Women and Dear Home Office”, paper presented at the “Crisis Symposium”, Universitat de Barcelona, 11-12 April.

2018: “This is Our Song: Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women in a Version by David Greig”, paper presented at “Theatre and Migration: Theatre, Nation and Identity between Migration and Stasis”, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/ FIRT) Annual Conference, Belgrade, 9-13 July.

2018: “Citizenship, Public Sphere and Protest in Aeschylus The Suppliant Women in a Version by David Greig”, paper presented at “1968-2018 I Protest, Performance and the Public Sphere”, University of Warwick, UK, 7-9 June.

2017: “David Greig’s Holed Theatre”, paper presented at “Unstable Geographies: Multiple Theatricalities”, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/ FIRT) Annual Conference, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 10-14 July.

2016: “David Greig’s The Events: Post-Brechtian Aesthetics, a Political Theatre for a Global Age”, a paper presented at the 1st International Conference of Young Researchers on Theatre Studies (CIJIET), University of Murcia, 2-4 November.

2016: “Recycling Brecht: David Greig’s The American Pilot and The Events”, paper presented at the 15th Symposium of the International Brecht Society “Recycling Brecht”, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, 25-29 June.

2015: “‘Tearing a Hole through Everything and Everyone’: David Greig’s Theatre’s Dialectics”, a paper presented at the symposium “Performing Dialectics”, Queen Mary, University of London, 30 January.

2014: “Bleeding Across: Ecstasy in the Work of David Greig and Suspect Culture”, a paper presented within the “Second Augsburg-Barcelona Seminar” organised by the research group “Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Theatre”, funded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – German Academic Exchange Service; Projekt-ID: 57049392), University of Barcelona, 17 September.

2014: “The Affective Politics of Ecstasy in David Greig’s Theatre: Towards the Open”, paper presented at the “First Augsburg-Barcelona Seminar” organised by the research group “Darstellungen des Prekären im britishen Gegenwartstheater” (“Representations of the Precarious in Contemporary British Theatre”), funded by the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst – German Academic Exchange Service; Projekt-ID: 57049392), University of Augsburg, 7-11 April.

2013: “Walking One Way Street: Immaterial Memory and Belonging in the Crippled City”, paper presented at the PhD Forum of “Theatre and Politics: Theatre as Cultural Intervention”, 22th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Charles University, Prague, 30 May-2 June.

2013: “Neo-Brechtian Techniques for a Globalized Age: The Politics of David Greig’s Brewers Fayre (2009) and Fragile (2011)”, paper presented at the International Conference “The Viewing of Politics and the Politics of Viewing: Theatre Challenges in the Age of Globalized Communities”, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 18-21 April.

2012: with Dilek İnan, “Combining the Epic with the Everyday: David Greig’s Dunsinane (2010)”, paper presented at the Seminar “Representations of Political/Ethical Concerns in post-1989 British Theatre” at the 11th Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Bogaziçi University, Istambul, 4-8 September.

2012: “The Mediated/Mediatized Spectator in the Global-technologized Era: Some Instances from David Greig’s Theatre”, paper presented at the New Scholars’ Forum of “Mediating Performance: Scène, Média et Médiation”, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/ FIRT) Annual Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 22-28 July.

2012: “Prolegomena and Theoretical Framework of Mapping Globalization in David Greig’s Theatre”, paper presented at the PhD Forum of “Bodies on Stage”, 21th Annual Conference of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE), Wolfsburg, Mülheim/Ruhr, 7-10 June.

2012: “Ambivalent Borders in David Greig’s Europe (1994)”, paper presented at the International Conference “The Border, an Unavoidable Concept? International Conference on the Border and its Relationship to the Performing Arts in Europe”, organized by Grup de Recerca en les Arts Escèniques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (GRAE), 1-3 March.

2012: “David Greig’s Theatre ‘Aesthethics’”, paper given at “Theatre and Alternative Value”, “A TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium”, Royal Holloway, University of London, 28 January.

2011: Participation in the round table “The Politics of Re-reading/Rewriting in Contemporary British Theatre” with the paper “The Politics of Re-reading/Rewriting in David Greig’s Savage Reminiscence (1991) and The Bacchae (2007)”, 35th International Conference of the Spanish Association of Angloamerican Studies (AEDEAN), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 17 November.

2011: “Amnesiac Legacies? Cognitively Mapping Traumatic Experiences in Ashes to Ashes & Mapping. Time: NOW”, paper presented at the Postgraduate Colloquium “NOW, Legacies and Amnesia”, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 19 February.