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Research
Latest funding
- $39,692
Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $17,799
Decoding the Lecture on Heads: Performing Objects and Satire on the 18th-Century Stage
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $57,036
Decoding the Lecture on Heads: Performing Objects and Satire on the 18th-Century Stage
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
Facing Backlash: Performance in the Age of Reactionary Politics
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: performance; theatre; backlash; representation; casting practices; cultural politics; reaction; community-centred strategies; artistic leadership; collaborative problem solving; future-oriented pedagogy; decolonization; equity; diversity; inclusion
Decoding the Lecture on Heads: Performing Objects and Satire on the 18th-Century Stage
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: theatre; performance; satire; eighteenth century; puppets; performing objects; deverbalization; censorship; material culture; visual culture; celebrity; solo performance; Licensing Act of 1737; resistance; subversion
Decoding the Lecture on Heads: Performing Objects and Satire on the 18th-Century Stage
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: theatre; performance; satire; eighteenth century; puppets; performing objects; deverbalization; censorship; material culture; visual culture; celebrity; solo performance; Licensing Act of 1737; resistance; subversion
Revisiting "Prince Hamlet": Why Not Theatre and Casting Shakespeare in Canada
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: theatre; casting; Shakespeare; Hamlet; inclusion; diversity; performance; American sign language; adaptation; intersectionality; Why Not Theatre
Performing phrenology: the theatrical roots of a 19th-century science
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: phrenology; theatre history; 19th-century science; acting; pseudoscience; human remains; lecture as performance; repatriation; George Combe; practice-based research; historical reenactment
Returning to rochdale: Performing the 1960s
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: Canadian theatre; Rochdale college; counterculture movement; 1960s; Toronto performance culture; playwrights as historians; David Yee; Nina Lee Aquino; emerging artists
Playing with history: a performance-based historiography symposium
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: theatre; performance; history; theatre history; historiography; practice-based research; performance creation; touching time; historical reenactment; heritage
Performance, placemaking, and cultural policy workshop and digital hub
Principal investigators: Levin, Laura
Keywords: performance and place; art and cultural policy; creative placemaking; cities; urban development; performance studies pedagogy; site-based mobilizations; events; scalability; temporality; cultural infrastructure; archive; heritage; curation
Ambassadors of empire: child performers and colonial audiences, 1835-1860
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: child performers; transnational theatre culture; theatrical touring; imperialism; colonialism; British empire; affective labour; celebrity culture; gender relations; masculinity; Victorian era; childhood studies
Tracking the transnational trade in theatrical commodities, 1890-1914
Principal investigators: Schweitzer, Marlis E.
Keywords: theatre; impresarios; broadway; transnational; trade; actor-network theory; global commodity chains; globalization; theatrical commodities; agents; foreign plays; foreign performers; xenophobia; commerce; historical avant-garde
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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