Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro
Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance (2016-2021)
Associate Professor, Department of Theatre
Dr. Luis Carlos Sotelo Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University and a former Canada Research Chair in Oral History Performance. His current research-creation focuses on the Colombian and Canadian contexts and investigates ways of engaging new audiences as listeners to narratives by participants in restorative and transitional justice processes. He creates live memory environments, collaborating with other artists and participants from specific communities and locations.
Since 2002, he has done work with and for internally displaced people, Indigenous communities, migrants, and elderly people both in Latin America, Canada and in the United Kingdom. His creative work has been commissioned by civil society and academic organizations such as the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration.
As an Associate Professor, Dr. Sotelo Castro supervises postdoctoral fellows, PhD researchers, Master’s students, and undergraduate students in areas such as oral history performance and performances of memory, socially engaged art, performance and activism, performance in zones of conflict and post conflict contexts, research-creation, verbatim theatre, and applied performance. He frequently presents his work at international conferences. His scholarly affiliations include: The International Listening Association, The International Federation for Theatre Research (working group performative pedagogies), The Memory Studies Association (working group memory and performance), and The Oral History Association.
luis.sotelo@concordia.ca
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