KHAS ERC Performance and Politics Webinars – Prof. David Dean

Performing Public History

Speaker: Prof. David Dean

Moderator: Rüya Kalıntaş

Time: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 at 7:30 pm Istanbul (GMT +3)

11:30 am New York & Ottawa, 4:30 pm London, 5:30 pm Central European

The webinar will be in English.

Please register in advance for this webinar:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88677142380

Meeting ID: 886 7714 2380 Passcode: 234015

In this talk, Professor David Dean reflects on his journey as a historical consultant to a National Theatre Company to collaborate in theatrical and non-theatrical historical productions. The talk also considers the challenges and opportunities of bringing this experience into the classroom, particularly in his graduate seminar Narrativity and Performance in Public History that encourages students to take on non-traditional forms of history “writing”—music, film, dance, podcasts, theatre, visual arts among them—and how it shapes historical understanding and historical consciousness through affect, emotion, and embodiment, memory, and identity. 

David Dean is a Professor of History and the Co-Director of the Carleton Center for Public History at Carleton University in Ottowa, Canada. As a public historian, he is especially interested in historical representation and historytelling in theater, film, and other forms of performance. As an early modern historian, his recent focus has been on dramatic representations of witchcraft and social inequality. He actively collaborates with museums, theater amateurs, and professionals, and with community activists exploring innovative ways of making history visible in our everyday lives.

This webinar series and the “Staging National Abjection” research project are sponsored by a European Research Commission Starting Grant (ERC-2019-StG, Grant ID: 852216).

Website: https://stagingabjection.com/

Twitter: @StagingAbject

Instagram: @stagingabjection

Facebook Page: ERC Staging National Abjection/ERC Ulusal Abjeksiyonu Sahnelemek