#  Pedagogy Forum: What TAPS Can Offer Anti-Racism 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 27, 2023** 

 05:00PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Barker Center, Room 133**  



 

 



 

##  [THEATER AND PERFORMANCE](/theater-and-performance)

##  SPEAKERS: Noe Montez, Tufts University; Carrie Preston, Boston University; Ashlie Sandoval, Harvard University

 As faculty and staff, we are hailed into anti-racist work in various ways: in our classrooms, in meetings about our curricula, in conversations with students/activists, and in the work of institutional governance. In these spaces, we often find ourselves thinking simultaneously as teachers, campus leaders, and theorists of performance. This forum aims to put those perspectives together, with a focus on what we as TAPS scholars do in the classroom. We ask: What can expertise in TAPS bring to anti-racist work? How can a TAPS education prepare students to engage in such work? What kinds of courses, assignments, and classroom strategies can bring such questions to the forefront of our pedagogy? And what specifically can we do when, inevitably, this work falls short of our hopes?

###  About the Speakers

 **Noe Montez** is the author of *Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina*. The book considers how theatre, as a site of activism, can produce memory narratives that change the public's reception to governmental policies on human rights violations. He is also the editor of the translation of Argentine playwright Santiago Loza's work, titled *Nothing to Do with Love and Other Plays*, (co-edited with Loza and Samuel Buggeln). Currently, he is writing a book about Black activism in contemporary U.S. sports, collaborating with Olga Sanchez Saltveit on the Routledge Companion to Latinx Theatre and Performance, and developing a project on the intersections between Critical University Studies and the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies. From 2018-2021, Noe served as the editor of *Theatre Topics*.

 **Carrie Preston** is the author of *Modernism’s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance* (Oxford, 2011), winner of the De La Torre Bueno Prize in dance studies, and of *Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching* (Columbia, 2016). She is currently working on a book called *Participate! Race and Gender in the Audience for Interactive Theater*, which examines the political and pedagogical work of audience participation. While audience participation is often celebrated as politically engaged and transformative, she considers its place in an experience economy that can have palliative impacts that might discourage other forms of political participation.

 As Assistant Director of Equity and Inclusion, **Ashlie Sandoval** oversees the development and delivery of programming regarding equity, inclusion, and belonging in higher education pedagogy for faculty and graduate students. Ashlie leads seminars, workshops, reading groups, and one-on-one consultations. She also provides direction for the Undergraduate Pedagogy Fellows, a cohort of Harvard undergraduates who facilitate workshops for instructors on issues of power and privilege in the classroom. Trained as a performance studies scholar, Ashlie brings an attention to the embodied dimensions of pedagogy and has interests in active learning, metacognition, and mindfulness.



 

 



 

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- [ Theater and Performance ](/seminars/theater-and-performance)
 
 

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