Dr. Afolabi and Dr. Ünsal have curated and moderated a panel at the 2024 Conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research on June 6, 2024.
Panelists:
Taiwo Afolabi is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Socially Engaged Theatre, University of Regina, Saskatchewan
Deniz Başar is a FRQSC post-doctoral fellow at Boğaziçi University
Burcu Yasemin Şeyben is Assistant Professor of Theater and General Education at the College of Southern Idaho
Pieter Verstraete is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen.
Deniz Ünsal is an Assistant Professor at Royal Roads University
This curated panel brought three distinct yet connected research papers focusing on justice, ethics of care and cultural policies across different places. Using different methods, papers examined how cultural policies impact performing artists’ living and working conditions— immigrants and refugees. Afolabi and Unsal’s paper drew on Canadian cultural policy and strategies of artists who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in western Canada. Şeyben and Başar elaborated on self-fashioning and self-exoticizing discursive patterns that immigrant artists learn and tailor for themselves to succeed in Canadian theatre. Verstraete’s research centred on Turkey’s displaced theatre artists in Germany and the Netherlands.
Website: The Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR)
