UCIPC Colloquium in Cooperation with the Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA, October 2005
On October 14th 2005, the UCIPC colloquium was held in association with the conference on International Performance organized by the Department of World Arts and Cultures. This conference, opened to faculty members and graduate students from the six UC campuses, funded four core faculty members and two students from each campus. Speakers included Regents’ Lecturer Rustom Bharucha, an independent theater director based in Kolkata, India, and author of ten books, including the influential Theater and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture and The Politics of Cultural Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization. He kicked off a day of lively debate and discussion of globalization. Other speakers included Yale’s Joseph Roach, author of the prize-winning Cities of the Dead, and Eiko, the New York-based choreographer with roots in Japan, whose current work employs a group of artists from Cambodia.