Dance as a register of war: Following unruly bodies and affects in conflict
Start time: 13:30 / End time: 14:30 / Date: 09 Dec 2020 Open to: Students in host dept/school/institute/centre / Staff in host dept/school/institute/centre / Students from same Faculty as host dept/school/institute/centre / Staff from same Faculty as host dept/school/institute/centre / Students within this Faculty / Staff within this Faculty / Any UOL students / Any UOL staff / Students from other HEIs / Staff from other HEIs/research institutions / Any potential undergraduate students / Any potential postgraduate students / Any potential international students / University of Liverpool Alumni / Business/industry / General Public Type: Seminar Cost: The cost is free, however, please register via the Eventbrite link Contact: For more information contact Dr Claire Pierson at Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maria-adriana-deiana-dance-as-a-register-of-war-tickets-123657836919 What do people do in the face of violence, war and tragedy? How do those touched by violence survive, live on, keep on going and feeling? What if “dance first, think later” IS the natural order in? In this paper I propose dancing as an everyday, embodied and multisensorial register of war. Bringing together critical interventions on war, politics and emotions (e.g. Choi 2013; Hutchison and Bleiker 2014, Welland 2018, Lisle, 2016) and the interdisciplinary field of dance studies (Kowal, Siegmund, and Martin 2017), this paper explores the entanglements between sites of political violence, militarism and dance electronic music and culture drawing upon my research in Bosnia and Northern Ireland. I start from the premise that these unseen entanglements amplify our knowledge about complicated histories of conflict and the operations of martial politics: they reveal complex lived, emotional, and embodied experiences intrinsic to the politics of conflict and violence, intricate layers in the affective politics of resistance and the reproduction of military sensibilities and global disparities in its midst. I propose dancing as a critical and creative method that dispels war’s totalising shadows and opens opportunities to feel, write and inhabit IR differently. Dr Maria Adriana Deiana is a Lecturer in International Relations at Queens University Belfast and is co-director of the Centre for Gender in Politics. She has conducted research on the post-Yugoslav space, the politics of Northern Ireland, EU border politics and security. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Citizenship studies, Peacebuilding, Geopolitics and the Journal of Narrative Politics. Her monograph titled 'Gender and Citizenship: Promises of Peace in Post-Dayton Bosnia & Herzegovina' was published by Palgrave in 2018. When you click on "Add this event to my calendar" your browser will download an ics file. Microsoft Outlook: Download the file, then you may be able to click on "Save & Close" to save it to your calendar. If that doesn't work go into Outlook, click on the File tab, then on Open, then Import. Select "Import an iCalendar (.ic or vCalendar file (.vcs)" then click on Next. Find the .ics file and click on OK. Google Calendar: download the file, then go into your calendar. On the right where it says "Other calendars" click on the arrow icon and then click on Import calendar. Click on Browse and select the .ics file, then click on Import. Apple Calendar: download the file, then you can either drag it to Calendar or import the file by going to File > Import > Import and choosing the .ics file.About the event
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