This week we’re in for some treats at the CCL!
Our Postcolonial Performance series returns this week, and this year it is dedicated to dance. We start on Tuesday 13 May at 6PM BST with Jeleel Ojuade (Ojaja University, Nigeria), who will talk about ‘Reclaiming Dance in Africa: Ancestral Heritage and Political Agency’
Click here for more information on Prof. Ojuade’s talk and the registration link.
And click here for the full series ‘Body-thoughts’: The CCL Postcolonial Dance Series, 2025, which in the next weeks will also feature Brahma Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), ‘A Manifesto to Decolonize Dance and Movement Discourses in South Asia’ (20 May, 3 PM BST); María Regina Firmino-Castillo (University of California, Riverside, USA),’“Dancing the Pluriverse” redux: (Indigenous) Performance as ontological praxis or anticolonial poiesis?’ (27 May, 6pm BST); and ‘Performance, Memory, and Resistance: A Talk by Palestinian Performance Artist Riham Isaac,’ (University of Exeter, UK), on 2 June, 6PM BST. All talk are online, and are free to attend.
On Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May we host the conference Music to my Ears: Creative Practices in Music and Translation, supported by the Modern Humanities Research Association. The conference is in person.
We look forward to seeing you!