International Perspectives, Transcultural Contexts, Modes of Practice

University College Cork, Ireland
21-24 May 2020

What exactly does it mean to go performative in education?The third SCENARIO Conference will revolve around new and existing connections and collaborations between educational sectors and the performative arts.

The event will be held at the Modern Language Centre at King's College London on Saturday 14th September 2019 and is primarily aimed at teachers of German as a Foreign Language in Higher Education and lecturers in German Studies or Theatre Studies. Confirmed guest speakers and workshop leaders include Prof Catherine Boyle (King’s College London), Prof Manfred Schewe (University College Cork) and Prof Anne Steiner (Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg). The symposium organisers collaborate with the SCENARIO forum and plan a publication of selected papers in a special edition of the bilingual (English-German) online journal SCENARIO. 

The conference focuses on best practice and research in the field of Drama and Theatre in Education specifically in second and foreign language teaching.
CALL FOR PAPERS - https://dramapaedagogik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CfP-2019-english.pdf

Dear colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we are announcing the following event: 
7^th Scenario Symposium: Principles and Perspectives in Performative Teaching and Learning
Saturday, May 4^th, 2019, Creative Zone, Boole Library, University College Cork, Ireland 
Please register here as soon as possible and by April 19^th, 2019: https://goo.gl/forms/SMqiC700ML3rJdQ32
A special thank you to the three speakers who travel all the way from North America:
Susanne Even (University of Indiana, Bloomington) John Crutchfield (University of North Carolina, Asheville), Barbara Schmenk (University of Waterloo).

The Summer School The role of drama in higher and adult language education: teacher training and the challenges of inclusionis aimed at Master’s students, PhD students, young researchers, scholars and practitioners in the area of second language learning and teaching who already engage in or would like to become involved in drama activities and to conduct research into these. The five-day (Monday-Friday) Summer School willtake place from 22 to 26 July 2019, and will be hosted at UniversitéGrenoble Alpes, France. Each morning will host one or two keynote speakers (in English), and on each afternoon two/three different workshops in two/three different languages (English, French, Italian) will be proposed.

Who am I? Who can tell me who I am? The Importance of the Social and Political in Children's and Young People's Drama.

A short film capturing moments of the symposium entitled 'Are Universities on the Way towards a Performative Teaching, Learning and Research Culture?' can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/GV1XcfVM2rE

The symposium entitled 'Are Universities on the way towards a performative teaching, learning and research culture?' centred on the following questions:
What exactly do we understand by a performative teaching and learning culture? Wherein exactly lies the benefit of applying performative approaches? How can we make university administrators and lecturers more aware of the immense innovative potential of going performative in third level education? 

Please note SCENARIO's recent association with the TransFairTheater Project Team. 

A collaboration between Leibniz University of Hanover (Centre for Applied Linguistics and Special Languages), State Theatre Hanover (Department of Theatre Pedagogy) and University College Cork (Department of Theatre)

The Modern Languages Department at University of Northern Colorado will host our 5th SCENARIO Forum Symposium on Performative Pedagogy, with keynote speaker Dr Susanne Even.

Members of the organising team were awarded the Cork Conference Ambassador Award for their work on the 2nd International SCENARIO Forum Conference 2017.