Global Perf Politics

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

At a time when the world faces myriad challenges ranging from polarization to climate crisis to violent conflict and forced migration, artists and change-makers across the globe are finding innovative ways to humanize global politics through performance. This course offers students a chance to engage firsthand with artistic practices, projects, and methods --as well as with a diverse range of cutting-edge artists from around the world who are finding resilient and transformative models for how performance can operate as a humanizing force in the realm of politics and world affairs. Georgetown houses a distinctive center for this work in The Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics. Through interactions with The Lab's team and its expansive global community of artists and thought-leaders -- as well as in-depth interactions with inspiring Global Fellows working in challenging circumstances around the world, students will develop an understanding of this expansive ecosystem of performance practices, as well as honing creative skills and techniques for deploying performance to engage pressing issues in our world in meaningful ways.