Conferences, symposiums, seminars (selected)
Over the years, I took part in conferences, symposiums, and seminars around the world in the fields of performance, theatre, and dance studies, Italian studies, art history, and education. A detailed list of participations is available on my CV.
2023 MASTERCLASS
Global Connections: Performance Pedagogy and Practice Conference. LASALLE College of the Arts (Singapore), the National Universityof Theatre and Film I.L Caragiale (RO), the Western Australia Academy ofPerforming Arts (AUS). Masterclass: "From Class to Team: How to Humanise Our (Online) Teaching". https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/research/global-connections-performance-pedagogy-and-practice
2022 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION & LIVE PERFORMANCE
11th ACIS Conference –Australasian Centre for Italian Studies. University of WesternAustralia (AUS). Papers: "Who Am I on this land?" (Ascolta Women Panel); "Performing on Permeable Layers of Dwelling". Live performance: The P.R.omised Land. https://www.acis.org.au/acis-11th-biennial-conference-frontiers-encounters-and-futures
2022 PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Objects for Everyday Resilience - Building Resilience to Social Harms
Youth, Diversity and Wellbeing in a Digital Age. Deakin University (AUS). Workshop: "The Body as a Site of Resilience". https://www.crisconsortium.org/objects-for-everyday-resilience - https://www.crisconsortium.org/new-events/the-body-as-a-site-of-resilience
2023 CONFERENCEPRESENTATION
ODD#3 – Our Dance Democracy 3. Liverpool Hope University(UK). Title: “Performing on Permeable Layersof Dwelling.” https://www.karengallagherandassociates.co.uk/odd3/
2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKER & PANEL CHAIR
3rd International Conference on Theatricality– Antitheatricality: Transdisciplinary andScenological Studies on Contemporary Theater. University of Bielsko-Biała (PL) & University of BuenosAires (RA). Keynote lecture: “Transmigration as Reconfiguration – The Performance ArtProcess as Locus of Possibilties.” https://iconf-theatre.ath.edu.pl/
2021 PRESENTER & INVITED PANELLIST
TaPRA Conference (The Theatre andPerformance Research Association). Liverpool Hope University (UK). Paper: "B.O.D.Y. The Bureau of Domestic Yearning".
2021 INVITED PANELLIST
ODD#2 – Our Dance Democracy 2. Liverpool Hope University (UK). Panel: Domestic Spaces, ‘Danceas Pandemic’. Presentation: "B.O.D.Y. The Bureau of Domestic Yearning" video screening. ODD 2 | Mysite (karengallagherandassociates.co.uk) ODD 2 SPEAKERS | Mysite (karengallagherandassociates.co.uk)
2020 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
2nd International Conference on Theatricality– Antitheatricality: Transdisciplinary and Scenological Studies on ContemporaryTheater. University of Bielsko-Biała (PL) & University of BuenosAires (RA). Paper: "The Audience-Audience Relationship: the Bodies of the Spectatorsas a Collective Body with Agency and Power". Theatricality - Antitheatricality:Transdisciplinary and Scenological Studies on Contemporary Theatre | 2stInternational Academic Conference (ath.edu.pl)
2018 LIVE PERFORMANCE
PSi#24 – Performance International Studies Conference. Daegu Art Factory, Daegu (SK). Live performance: The Foreigner. Unknown Unlabelled Unexpected. http://www.psi2018-daegu.com/
2017 INVITED PRESENTATION
Education, MADA and Arts FacultyCombined Team Meeting– Research Engagement. Monash University, Clayton (AUS). Paper: "Practice as Research inPerformance Art".
2016 CONFERENCE PRESENTATION & LIVE PERFORMANCE
Psi #22 - Performance International Studies Conference: Performance Climates. University of Melbourne, Parkville (AUS). Paper: "Dwelling through Performance Art". Live performance: Mapping the Sound/SoundscapePortrait. http://www.psi2016.com/
TANK 3. MELBOURNE 2015 International Body Weather Masterclass& Symposium. Malthouse Theatre, Southbank (AUS). Led by Tess De Quincey and Frank van der Ven. Curated by DeQuincey&Co., Body Weather Amsterdam, Dr Stuart Grant (Monash University). http://dequinceyco.net/bodyweather/tank-3/
2012 INVITED PRESENTATION
Diritti delle donne migranti e rifugiate, contrasto alla tratta (Migrant and refugee women’srights, fighting against trafficking). MAXXIMuseum, Rome (IT). Paper and video screening: Il presente è una terra straniera (The present is a foreign land).
2009 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Academic Theses Presentation, Departmentof History of Art, Albertina Academy of Fine Arts, Turin (IT). Lecture: ‘Verso la Dea - l’Archetipo femminile dalle origini all’ Arte contemporanea’(Toward the Goddess -The Feminine Archetype from its Origins to theContemporary Art).
2008 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Arte&Cultura -Tesi e Incontri, CasaInternazionale delle Donne (International House for Women), Rome (IT). Lecture: ‘Verso la Dea - l’Archetipo femminile dalle origini all’ Arte contemporanea’ (Toward theGoddess - The Feminine Archetype from the Origins to the Contemporary Art).http://www.archiviaabcd.it/index.php?it/163/2008