Sarah Saddler
Department of Theater, Arts and Dance
Date: March 24, Thursday
Time: 4-5:30 PM
Place: 609 Social Sciences
Sarah Saddler, PhD candidate at the Department of Theater, Arts and Dance, will give a presentation on her doctoral work. Sarah is going to Yale to present a conference paper on this topic and she would benefit from this group's feedback.
Time: 4-5:30 PM
Place: 609 Social Sciences
Sarah Saddler, PhD candidate at the Department of Theater, Arts and Dance, will give a presentation on her doctoral work. Sarah is going to Yale to present a conference paper on this topic and she would benefit from this group's feedback.
Abstract:
In
India’s rapidly developing global cities, transnational corporations
implement theatre-based corporate training programs that are designed to
inspire employees to be more dynamic, aspirational, and self-motivated
at work. Offering a performance ethnography perspective of a week-long Theatre in Excellence program
hosted in Bangalore (2014), I suggest that the theatre-based corporate
training process is a site where the emergent Indian neoliberal laboring
subject is being talked about, experimented with, and actively shaped.
In India, a previously colonized, emerging global superpower undergoing
neoliberal restructuring, practices of theatre-based corporate training
illuminates how performance both interrogates and and reproduces employee precarity within neoliberal capitalism.
Bio:
Sarah
Saddler is a PhD student in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at
the University of Minnesota. Her research, which is based on
experiences facilitating and observing theatre-based training programs
throughout India since 2012, has been presented at the International
Federation for Theatre Research (2014) and the Mid-America Theatre
Conference (2014, 2015, 2016).
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