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Education
BA, Sociology, Sir George Williams University
MA, Communications, McGill University
PhD, Communications, Concordia University, Montreal
Teaching interests
Media and Minorities, Neo-Colonial Theory and “Development,” Race, Representation, & Technologies, International Communication, Indigenous Television and Media History, New Media and First Peoples, Mediating Oral Histories, Oral History as Cultural Performance, Civic Journalism.
Courses
Winter
Coms 419/519 - Communication and Indigenous Peoples
Coms 473/547 - International Communications
Listening in the context of Oral History Performance for Social Change
Current research projects include:
Engaging performance audiences as listeners of restorative justice processes in the context of sexual violence. (Partnership Engage Grant, SSRHC). Partner: Centre de Services de Justice Reperatrice.
Based on testimonies gathered through recorded interviews, Luis C. Sotelo Castro is producing a performance piece that will engage specific performance audiences as participants in a restorative justice process in the context of sexual violence. Through a technique called headphones verbatim, performers will deliver the memories of a woman who was a victim of sexual violence in the past and of a man who committed several sexual offences and underwent a successful restorative process with Montreal-based Centre de Services de Justice Réparatrice (CSJR).
Diasporic Listening: Performative Interventions in Transitional Justice in Colombia and Beyond. Partners: International Victims’ Forum and Truth Commision of Colombia. (Connections Grant, SSHRC)
The objectives of this project that I am inviting you to be part of, are:
· to identify what do different segments of publics both in Colombia and in foreign host societies know and feel about the struggles of peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-Colombian women who are forced to go into exile;
· what does the act of listening to the first-person narrative of three representatives of an association of peasant, black and Indigenous women of Colombia do in terms of engaging said segments of publics as participants in a public conversation of relevance to advance post-conflict goals such as accountability, restorative justice, democracy-building, community-building, sustainable development, multiculturalism, gender justice, and to raise awareness about the need to bridge the gap between urban and rural areas.
· to explore how publics in foreign host societies may engage in a conversation about mental health practices with refugees as a result of listening to the podcast.
Preventive health techniques for the performer of painful narratives. (Internal Concordia Grant)
This project combines the expertise of Dr Sotelo Castro and Dr Emily Coffey (a neuropsychologist, Associate Professor at Concordia) in order to develop an understanding of how an innovative acting technique called headphones verbatim may be used to enable performers to embody someone else’s real-life, emotionally charged narratives with relatively minimal risks.
I welcome enquiries from potential doctoral and postdoctoral students interested in joining my research team in the following areas:
- Performance of memory and oral history performance
- Performance and activism in zones of conflict, terrorism, and post-conflict contexts (for instance Colombia, Mexico, Canada, United States, El Salvador)
- Participation Performance and Collaborative Performance Practices
- Performance and Transformative Justice
- Performance for social change – socially engaged and applied performance
- Performance and migration
- Orality and oral history performance
- Walking Art
- Performance and Indigenous Peoples in the context of truth and reconciliation efforts
- Listening research in the context of performance studies
- Creation research
Not being able to speak is torture: performing listening to painful narratives
International Journal of Transitional Justice, Special Issue Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice: Contributions of Arts and Culture. Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 220–231, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijtj/ijz033
Enterarse de viva voz de las peores cosas: la escucha en el contexto de actos escénicos que usan la memoria como material en un escenario postraumático
Revista Artilugio Nro 5. 2019
La Acción Escénica para un contexto transicional: casos colombianos
Cornago, Oscar y Rodriguez, Zara. (Ed.) Tiempos de habitar. Practicas Escenicas y Esfera Publica. Cuenca (España): Genueve Ediciones.
Facilitating voicing and listening in the context of post-conflict performances of memory. The Colombian scenario
In: De Nardi, S., Orange, H., et al. Routledge Handbook of Memoryscapes. Routledge: London. 2019
‘Mr. President, open the door please, I want to be free’: participatory walking as aesthetic strategy for transforming a hostage space.’
In: (Breed, A. and Prentki, T. Eds) Performative Landscapes. London: Palgrave. 2018
Looking backwards in order to walk forwards: walking, collective memory, and the site of the inter-cultural in site-specific performance
Performance Research,Vol. 15 No. 4 (Dec. 2010)
Participation Cartography: blurring the boundaries of space and autobiography by means of performance
Ride: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. 15.4, November 2010
Participation Cartography: the presentation of Self in spatio-temporal terms
CFP: 'Disclose', M/C Journal Vol. 12 No. 6, 2009