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Theatre and Danger Lecture Series

Thursday, January 26, 2012toThursday, April 19, 2012
5170 Cote-Ste-Catherine, 5170 Cote-Ste-Catherine, Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal, CA

The Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas is very pleased to announce a new partnership with the Segal Centre for Performing Arts.  Together IPLAI and the Segal Centre will host a new public lecture series on Theatre and Danger, featuring lectures by 91Ë¿¹ÏÊÓÆµ faculty members, which will address the power of theatre to effect social and political critique and the consequently precarious positions in which the art and its practitioners often find themselves.

Prof. Erin Hurley (Department of English)
What Consolation? Incendies on Stage and Screen

Prof. Lyudmila Parts (Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
The Fatherland in Danger: Mikhail Bulgakov’s Days of the Turbins

Prof. Paul Yachnin (Department of English)
MacDanger

Prof. Steven Huebner (Schulich School of Music)
Verdi's Dangerous Voices

Prof. Christina Tarnopolsky (Department of Political Science)
Democracies and Danger: Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Post-9/11 Environment

For more information please visit the IPLAI website.

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