Curator: Taiwo Afolabi and Deniz Ünsal
Location: Zoom Room B
Online Session
Sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in Socially Engaged Theatre and the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, C-SET
This curated panel brings three distinct yet connected research papers focusing on justice, ethics of care and cultural policies across different places. Using different methods, papers examine how cultural policies have impacted performing artists’ living and working conditions— immigrants and refugees. Afolabi and Unsal’s paper draws on Canadian cultural policy and strategies of artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in western Canada. Şeyben and Başar elaborate on self-fashioning and self-exoticizing discursive patterns that immigrant artists learn and tailor for themselves to succeed in Canadian theatre. Verstraete’s research centres on Turkey’s displaced theatre artists in Germany and the Netherlands.
Taiwo Afolabi is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Saskatchewan
Deniz Başar is a FRQSC post-doctoral fellow at Boğaziçi University
Burcu Yasemin Şeyben is Assistant Professor of Theater and General Education at the College of Southern Idaho
Pieter Verstraete is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen.
Deniz Ünsal is an Assistant Professor at Royal Roads University