The
Hemispheric Institute Encuentro is an intensive exploration of the
relation between performance and politics in the Americas, featuring
lectures, performance workshops, participant round tables, work groups,
performances, video screenings, and installations. The Encuentro seeks
to bring together students, scholars, artists, and activists to develop
models of intellectual and artistic inquiry that are specially suited
to the study of social and political formations in the Americas. It
explores the potential offered by the emerging interdisciplinary field
of Performance Studies to provide new means through which to understand
the relation between expressive culture (broadly construed as performance)
and political movements, identities, and social norms. The Encuentro
curriculum draws on the combined expertise of leading scholars and
artists trained in performance and cultural studies from throughout
the Americas. Participants are encouraged to develop and present their
work as part of the Encuentro.
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