Re-Staging the Past: 2015 Shannon Lectures
will commence its 2015 Shannon Lecture Series on Friday Sept. 18, 2015.
The lectures will examine ways in which our understanding of the past is enhanced through performance. What does it mean when our histories take alternative forms such as film, theatre, re-enactment, cabaret and virtual gaming? How does re-staging the past in these ways shape the history that is produced and how audiences experience the past?
Five renowned speakers will deliver lectures on this year’s theme, Performing History: Re-Staging the Past. They include:
Friday, Sept. 18:
Lisa Peschel (University of York, England)
Theatre and the Holocaust: Recently Rediscovered Scripts from the Tere³úòÔ/Theresienstadt Ghetto.
Friday, Oct. 9:
Bruno Ramirez (University of Montreal)
Through Images, Words, and Sounds: Filmic Narration and Public History
Friday, Oct. 23:
Maxime Durand (Ubisoft, Montreal)
From Dreams to Realities: Performing History in the Assassin’s Creed® Video Game Series
Friday, Nov. 13:
Vanessa Agnew (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Re-enacting Genocide
Friday, Nov. 27:
Peter Hinton (Shaw Festival Theatre)
Why Shaw Now? A Modern Pygmalion
Where: All lectures will take place in the , Discovery Centre, Fourth Floor MacOdrum Library, ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa.
When: Each lecture begins at 1:30 p.m. and is followed by a reception in the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall.
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ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ the Shannon Lectures:
The Shannon Lectures in History are thematically linked public lectures offered annually at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University and made possible through the Shannon Donation, a major anonymous gift from a friend of the Department of History. Previous lectures have focused on the history of food and drink, the history of the senses, the history of emotion, storytelling and gender history.