DrEmma Bennett

Research project convened by Nicholas Ridout (professor of theatre), Fiona Templeton (poet and theatre-maker), Simon Vincenzi (theatre-maker), Orlagh Woods (curator and creative producer) and Joe Kelleher (professor of theatre). A structured comversation between theatre and performance makers, artists, writers and researchers to explore the connections between performance, ‘spirit possession’ and automation or ‘artificial intelligence’.

Associated with Reveil’s Soundcamp, the acoustic commons study group was first conceived and convened by Ella Finer as a way of gathering diverse considerations of what a commons is in sonic terms. In 2020, the group reconvened online to listen and respond to Reveil’s continuous live stream of dawn chorus around the world. Individual responses were published on Reveil’s website.

The ICNC Curriculum Fellowship supports curriculum development for undergraduate- and graduate-level classroom-based teaching on civil resistance led by academic faculty and educators from around the world.

A symposium about issues of gender representation and access to institutional space, staged in the historic Octagon library at Queen Mary. Organised to mark the Vote 100 celebrations in collaboration with Dr. Ella Finer and Dr. Maggie Inchley and funded by the Centre for Public Engagement at Queen Mary, this event was supported by a specially curated tour of the Palace of Westminster for pupils from Tower Hamlets schools. It was accompanied by a specially commissioned pamphlet featuring an original essays by Nirmal Puwar and others.