{"id":10793,"date":"2014-11-11T21:11:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T02:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/history\/?p=10793"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:54:20","slug":"performing-history-carleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2014\/performing-history-carleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Performing History at Carleton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Performing History at Carleton\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Capturing Oma and Opa: A True Story\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G3IIiyhXdJ8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian historian Greg Dening once remarked that if history is a performance then historians are the performers. Nineteen graduate students taking Professor David Dean\u2019s MA seminar <em>Narrativity and Performance<\/em> in Public History put Denning\u2019s theory to the test last winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For <em>Narrativity and Performance<\/em>, students were asked to produce and perform a piece of work on a history that they had an interest in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After exploring&nbsp; theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, the class interacted with Ottawa based storyteller Ruth Stewart-Verger, Skyped with UK performance scholar Dr. Lisa Peschel about her recovery of Holocaust plays and cabarets, and took advantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/cuag.carleton.ca\/\">Carleton University Art Gallery\u2019s<\/a> artists talks and a performance of Hannah Moscovitch\u2019s (recent Trillium award-winning) play, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9BxRI6mmyFc\"><em>This is War<\/em><\/a>, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gctc.ca\/\">Great Canadian Theatre Company<\/a>. How historical arguments and meaning are represented through storytelling, and thinking reflexively about their roles as historians in the process of history-making, were the key objectives of the seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the rest of this story at <a title=\"Performing History\" href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2014\/performing-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">carleton.ca\/fass\/2014\/performing-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian historian Greg Dening once remarked that if history is a performance then historians are the performers. Nineteen graduate students taking Professor David Dean\u2019s MA seminar Narrativity and Performance in Public History put Denning\u2019s theory to the test last winter. For Narrativity and Performance, students were asked to produce and perform a piece of work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-10793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-performing-history"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10793\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}