Workshop 19 [Saturday 13:30-15:30, 16:00-18:00]
“Performing In/Justice”
(Pia Wiegmink, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, and Benita Heiskanen, University of Turku, Finland)
Session 1
Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware, USA): “Enacting Abolition and the Underground Railroad in the American West: Writing Toward Freedom, Righting Injustice”
Pia Wiegmink (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany): “ ‘Buy and Sell for the Benefit of the Slave’: Women's Political Acts at Boston’s Anti-Slavery Fair”
Theresa Saxon (University of Central Lancashire, UK): “Justice and War in Native American Performance”
Gyorgy Toth (Charles University, Czech Republic): “Independence in ‘76: Performing Sovereignty in the American Indian Decolonization Project of the Late Cold War”
Session 2
Elvira Osipova (St. Petersburg University, Russia): “Deportations and Relocation: Patterns of Injustice”
Michael Berkowitz (University College London, UK): “A Clowning Performance for (the) Justice: David Irving's Attack on Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt”
Birgit Bauridl (University of Regensburg, Germany): “Poetic Justice? Black Activist Performances Between Stage, Street, and Prison”
Benita Heiskanen (University of Turku, Finland): “Art-Activism as Performances of In/Justice on the U.S.-Mexico Border”
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