UBC’S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND FILM SEMINAR SERIES: HUDDLE.

Once a month scholars and practitioners will assemble to practice conference presentation and share research in the areas of theatre, film, dramatic literature and performance. Each session will feature three twenty-minute papers and a twenty-minute discussion period, followed by socializing with refreshments. This is a great opportunity to rehearse papers for conferences and get supportive feedback on your research and presentation skills.  Open to UBC Graduate Students, Undergraduate students and Faculty.
To book a slot or to ask questions, email Coordinator Katrina Dunn at katrina.dunn@ubc.ca
HUDDLE 1
Ecocriticism in Theatre, Film and Dramatic Literature
Wed Feb 28^th,, 3:30pm – 5pm  BuTo 1099
Featuring …
Requited Love? Romantic Comedy and Environmental Ethics
Popular films such as Bee Movie (2007), Avatar (2009), and The Mermaid (2016) all represent the relationship between humans and nonhumans in terms of romantic love. Are these films onto something – can love encourage a more ethical relationship with nature?
Presenter: Chelsea Birks is a sessional instructor at UBC, where she teaches courses on Asian cinema.
Liquid Apocalypse: Contemporary Canadian Warnings in Theatrical Form
Profiling two contemporary plays that feature oceanic cataclysm, Alanna Mitchell’s Sea Sick and Jordan Hall’s Kayak, this paper looks at how engaging apocalyptic tropes and imagining species death have come to define our new, highly unstable, liquid reality.
Presenter: Katrina Dunn is working towards a PhD in Theatre Studies, exploring the spatial manifestations of theatre and ecocritical theatre.
Of Double Cherries and Twinned Lambs: Shakespeare’s Homoerotic Ecologies
Exploring dramatic portrayals of same-sex love, this presentation considers how homosociality, a deeply normative element in the early modern milieu, can manifest as erotic possibilities when placed in the liberating spaces of ecological realms.
Presenter: Karol Pasciano (MA English Literature) is specializing in the reconfiguration of landscapes and ecological representations in early modern drama.
HUDDLE 2
March 28, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Programming TBA
 
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