Event Date
Circus and its Others 2021: Now all digital!
November 4-7, 2021
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After Montreal (2016) and Prague (2018), the third international Circus and its Others conference is taking place from November 4-7, 2021!
Circus and its Others (CaiO) is an international, cross-disciplinary research project that explores the ways in which contemporary circus artists and companies relate to concepts such as difference, otherness, and alterity in their practice.
Keynotes at the conference include:
Bojana Kunst, Justus-Liebeg University Giessen, Germany
"(Un)settling lines of care: braiding virtuosity and precarity in the work of the performance artists"
Susan Nance, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
"Trained animal acts and circus arts beyond the circus"
Jane Nicholas, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"History in three rings"
André Lepecki, New York University
"Gimme shelter: sociality in the nest"
For a complete list of panels and performance, please visit the conference website at:
circusanditsothers.org
Sponsored by: The City of Davis; Visit Yolo; Brock University; Union College.
UC Davis Sponsors include: The Center for Science and Innovation Studies; UC Davis Humanities Institute; The Department of African American and African Studies; The Department of American Studies; The Department of Cinema and Digital Media; The Department of English; The Department of Native American Studies; The Department of Anthropology (sociocultural wing); The Department of Theater and Dance; The Department of Science and Technology Studies; The Department of Jewish Studies; The Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies; The Department of History; The Department of French and Italian; The Department of Spanish and Portuguese; The Program of Critical Theory; The Cultural Studies Graduate Group; The Performance Studies Graduate Group; Global Affairs; and The Mondavi Center.
For more information please contact: Anuj Vaidya, anuva@ucdavis.edu
Event sponsored by: DHI; The Center for Science and Innovation; Performance Studies Graduate Group; and others.