Attached is a recording of the Zoom Roundtable that took place on May 9th, 2024, and featured panelists Francis Koncan, Dr. Amanda Reid, and Dr. meLê yamomo.
Note: part of the introduction was cut off during recording, and is pasted below.
Good afternoon everyone. My name is Colleen Kim Daniher, and I am your host for today’s event. I’m an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University; I’m also the co-editor, with, Dr. Marlis Schweitzer, of York University, of Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, volume 1: Performers, forthcoming with Bloomsbury-Methuen Press in 2025.
As the Primary Investigator for “Sustaining Global Connections in Feminist Theatre and Performance Historiography,” the larger event that today’s roundtable is a part of, I’m delighted to welcome you to this public roundtable. “Worlding Feminist Theatre and Performance Historiography” kicks off a full day authors’ workshop for the contributors of Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, volume 1. This workshop is meant to deepen and extend the insights about women, gender, and performance produced by the edited collection by harnessing the collective knowledge of approximately twenty-five of our forty contributors from around the world. As transnational feminism has taught us for years now, globalizing women’s issues and concerns productively disrupts universalizing conceptions of “Woman,” gender…and “innovation.” It is in this spirit that this roundtable seeks to explore how “worlding”—as a verb, as a method, and as a politics—might open up new trajectories for feminist theatre and performance historiography aligned with decolonizing and Global Majority social and aesthetic movements.
Before I move on to introduce today’s speakers, and in the spirit of “worlding,” I would like to acknowledge that Wilfrid Laurier University and its campuses are located on the shared traditional territory of the Attawandaron, Anishnaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples.