Dramaturgies in the Afterlife of Violence

Events

Besides individually or collectively participating at conferences, artistic formats or public discussions, our Junior Research Group regularly invites scholars as well as artists for guest lectures and talks. This happens especially within the frame of Theater Forschung Ruhr, the lecture series at the institute for Theater Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Furthermore, the research group organizes a total of three workshops (from 2024 to 2026) and a conference (approximately in the first months of 2027).

Finally, some of our shared group excursions are also being listed here to give short insights into our activities.

An Artist Talk(s) with Marikiscrycrycry (tanzhaus nrw)

17. Oktober 2026,

Balindile ka Ngcobo will moderate an artist talk with Malik Nashad Sharpe (Marikiscrycrycry) following the performance of "Hang Time".

Participation at Festival Favoriten Dortmund (1st–11th of October) and corresponding Symposium "Disrupted Infrastructures" (30th of September – 1st of October)

30.September–11. Oktober 2026

At Festival Favoriten, Dortmund, we are involved with several activities: Balindile ka Ngcobo is part of the Programme Advisory Board of the Festival Favoriten and Leon Gabriel is co-organizer of the the symposium "Disprupted Infrastructures" that precedes the festival itself.

Guest Lecture by Anke Graneß: “Knowledge Beyond the Written Word: African Epistemologies and Philosophical Discours”

Blue Square Bochum, 2nd Floor

Guest Lecture by Anke Graneß "Knowledge Beyond the Written Word: African Epistemologies and Philosophical Discours"

Conversation with Dr. Stella Nyanzi on the documentary film „The Woman who Poked the Leopard“ (Uganda 2025)

Ruhr-University Bochum, BlueSquare (Kortumstr. 90, 44787 Bochum), 1st floor

Conversation with Dr. Stella Nyanzi on the documentary film „The Woman who Poked the Leopard“ (Uganda 2025)

Presentation at 2026 Conference of Latin American Studies Association (LASA) in Paris: "Republic and Revolution"

26.–30. Mai 2026

Marriott Rive Gauche, Paris, France

Leon Gabriel will present his research as well as host a panel on 'Indigeneity, Art, and Memory across Abiayala' at the 2026 conference by LASA, held in Paris. His paper has the title "Repairing the Republic through Ancestrality? Negotiations of Indigenous Knowledge and Dissent in the Performances of Tiziano Cruz and Mapa Teatro".

Guest Lecture by Julius Heinicke: "Trans-national Cultural Policy: Colonial, Inter-Queer or Unkinnung?"

Blue-Square, Kortumstraße 90, 44787 Bochum, 5. Stock

Guest Lecture by Julius Heinicke: "Trans-national Cultural Policy: Colonial, Inter-Queer or Unkinnung?"

Third Research Workshop: "Process and Unfold: The Conditions We Produce", 6th & 7th of February 2026

6.–7. Februar 2026

Tanzhaus NRW & FFT Düsseldorf

Workshop with Martine Dennewald (Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal), Mark Fleishman (Cape Town), Ekaterina Trachsel (Giessen), and Sandra Umathum (Wien) in cooperation with tanzhaus NRW and Forum Freies Theater (Düsseldorf)

Guest Lecture by Grit Koeppen: "Entgegen scheinbarer Befriedung: Dekoloniale Ästhetiken im Sprechtheater"

15. Januar 2026,

Ruhr-University, Uni Campus, GB 03/142

Guest Lecture by Grit Koeppen: "Entgegen scheinbarer Befriedung: Dekoloniale Ästhetiken im Sprechtheater"

Participation at Conference PSi#30 XXX - CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS in Fortaleza, Brasil (Performance Studies International)

11.–15. Dezember 2025

Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza

Participation at Conference PSi#30 XXX - CRUZO, CRUISING, CROSSROADS in Fortaleza, Brasil (Performance Studies International)

Public Lecture: „Teilung und Teilhabe: Identitätspolitik, Kolonialerbe und theatrale Beziehungsweisen“

24. November 2025

Fachkonferenz „Tanz + Theater machen stark“, Bundesverband Darstellende Künste, theaterperipherie/Titania Theater Frankfurt

Public Lecture: „Teilung und Teilhabe: Identitätspolitik, Kolonialerbe und theatrale Beziehungsweisen“

Artist Talk with Idylla Silmarovi and Rika Sakalak: “The Conditions We Produce”

17. November 2025,

Ruhr-University Bochum - Blue Square, 4th Floor - Kortumstr. 90, 44787 Bochum

Artist Talk with Idylla Silmarovi and Rika Sakalak: “The Conditions We Produce”

Guest Lecture by Frieda Ekotto "Towards a Phenomenology of the Body"

Universitätsstr. 105, Bochum, Room EG 014

Guest Lecture by Frieda Ekotto (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): "Towards a Phenomenology of the Body" (including screening of "Zurura Zurura: The Smile Blooms")

Public Lecture "Solidarität im Widerspruch: Partikulare Erfahrung und Reparativer Humanismus" at Goethe-University Frankfurt

Goethe-University Frankfurt, Hörsaalzentrum, HZ 10

Guest Lecture at Hessian Theatre Academy & Goethe University Frankfurt by Leon Gabriel

Second Research Workshop: "Other Epistemologies? Troubling Knowledge in Research and Art", 3rd and 4th of June 2025

3.–4. Juni 2025

PACT Zollverein Essen & Ruhr-University Bochum

Workshop with Dr. Cecilia Gil Mariño (Buenos Aires/Köln), Dr. Melibea Obono (Malabo/Madrid/Essen), Jr.-Prof. Dr. Mariana Simoni (Berlin), Prof. Dr. meLê Yamomo (Amsterdam) as well as Prof. Dr. Jörn Etzold (Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Henriette Gunkel (Bochum), in collaboration with PACT Zollverein.

An Artist Talk(s) with Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira (tanzhaus nrw)

Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

Felipe dos Santos Boquimpani will moderate an artist talk with Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira after the performance "Repertório N.2"

An Artist Talk(s) with Dorothée Munyaneza (tanzhaus NRW)

15. Februar 2025,

Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

Balindile ka Ngcobo will moderate an artist talk with Dorothée Munyaneza after the performance "Toi, moi, Tituba".

Participation at Workshop "Re-/Lektüren. Praktiken des 'Wieder & Wider' in der Theaterwissenschaft", Vienna

9.–11. Januar 2025

Institute for Theater Studies, University Vienna

Felipe dos Santos Boquimpani will present his research at a workshop hosted by the Institute for Theater Studies at the University Vienna at the beginning of 2025.

Guest Lecture by Ruth Sonderegger: „Emancipation or Violence? Aesthetic Education from Kant to Spivak“

12. Dezember 2024

6-8 pm, Campus RUB, Room: GB 5/160

Prof. Dr. Ruth Sonderegger will be our guest shortly before Christmas and will speak about her research on the coloniality of aesthetics - for this talk with a focus on aesthetic education.

Guest Lecture by Pedzisai Maedza: „Speaking for the Dead: Contemporary Performance Artists in the Archive“

3. Dezember 2024

6-8 pm, Campus RUB, Room: GB 5/160

Ass.-Prof. Dr. Pedzisai Maedza will present his research in Bochum. The event is organized in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Henriette Gunkel and Dr. Julia Schade from the Institute of Media Studies.

First Research Workshop “Shifting Dramaturgies in Transmodern Worlds”

14.–15. November 2024

Institute for Theater Studies, RUB, BlueSquare (Kortumstr. 90, 44787 Bochum), 4th floor

Our research group will hold its first larger research workshop with several international guests.

Symposium “Infrastructures in Focus: Curating in a World of Multiple Crises”

18.–19. Oktober 2024

Kunstmuseum Bochum

Group Panel "Representability and the History of Violence" at the Conference “Open Spaces” by the German Society for Theater Studies (GTW)

Institute for Theater Studies, University of Leipzig

Guest Lecture by Walther Maradiegue: “Performing the Sound Archive: Ethnographies of Listening in the Andes”

Institute for Theatre Studies, RUB

Artist Talk/Public Discussion with Mamela Nyamza at tanzhaus NRW: “HATCHED ENSEMBLE – fifteen years after HATCHED, thirty years into Democracy”

Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf

Artist Talk with Neo Muyanga: “Bow About: Blood Sweat and Fears - Reading Wole Soyinka’s Classics from a Troubled State, Today”

Institute for Theater Studies, RUB

Artist Talk mit der Compagnie La Fleur: „Konami – der Fußballtanz“ und andere Projekte

Institute for Theater Studies, RUB

Group Excursion to Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlinale and Museums in Berlin

21.–23. Februar 2024

Group Excursion to “¡Adelante!” Festival in Heidelberg

8.–10. Februar 2024

Heidelberg & Mannheim

Guest Lecture by Mariama Diagne “The Golden Gaze. Naked Show-Offs as Intervention in Diasporic Performance Practices”

29. Januar 2024

Institute for Theater Studies, RUB

Artist Talk with Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi and Marcella Akuetteh Nuerkie

13. Dezember 2023

Institute for Theater Studies, RUB