The First Annual Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network Free for All Symposium on the Concept of Performance

A graduate symposium about performance as an interdisciplinary concept, for all those in Cambridge interested in, working with, or curious about, ideas of performance, performativity, or practice as a way of thinking or angle of approach....

Graduate students (MAs and Phds) from all parts of the university and all departments and faculties, including music, history, sociology, divinity, english, politics, classics, philosophy, history of art, architecture, psychology, linguistics, modern and medieval languages or medicine (etc.) are invited to submit short papers, presentations, or other provocations, with complete freedom to choose whatever discursive frame they think best, providing their presentation is locatable within the Sidgwick site.

Addressed - in seven minutes or less - by Dr Ben Griffin (History), Dr Jennifer Wallace (English), Dr Les Joynes (Fine Art), Dr John Hopkins (Music) and Dr Lorna Collins (Film/Critical Theory). Followed by an intrapanel, then open discussion (chaired by Clare Foster).