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25th Annual Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference: Popular Power/Poder Popular


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Friday, May 27 • 3:30pm - 5:00pm
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This paper session will include presentations of the following three papers:

Rona in the BX: Using TO to Cope with COVID-19
Presenter: Eva Lopez, EdD, John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
This paper asks the questions: What TO techniques are best suited to address the challenges of the pandemic in communities of struggle? How can we use TO to continue to help youth cope with the pandemic? Participants will be asked to brainstorm possibilities with the presenter.

Languages: English and Spanish

Theatrical Interventions in the Imperative: On the Political Potential of the Impossible
Presenter: Rebecca Struch, University of California, Berkeley
This paper presentation examines theories of metaxis alongside an analysis of the performance Slave Rebellion Reenactment in order to suggest that ‘magical’ interventions deserve more careful consideration within Theatre of the Oppressed practice.

Language: English

Augusto Boal and Jean-Marie Brohm: games for embodied liberation
Presenter: Amy Phillips, Grand Valley State University
This paper presents research on the liberatory engagement of the body in French sociologist and Freudo-Marxist Jean-Marie Brohm's critique of sport, which functions as a comparative case study alongside Augusto Boal’s return of games–and their emancipatory power–back to the people.

Language: English
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Eva Lopez

Crossroads Connection Inc.
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Rebecca Struch

PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Hi! I'm a theatre artist, educator, and organizer with a commitment to community engagement through participatory practice. I am currently a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. My research focuses on the entanglements of settler colonialism, processes of racialization... Read More →
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Amy Phillips

graduate student, Grand Valley State University
Amy is a freelance writer who has led theatre programs with homeless and formerly incarcerated populations in western Michigan, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Amy holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and attended TOPLAB workshops in 2007 through... Read More →

Friday May 27, 2022 3:30pm - 5:00pm CDT
Mundelein 414
  Paper Panel, Theatre of the Oppressed

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