Society can be understood as something that only exists as long as actions are performed, as long as processes take place, as long as we all contribute in some way to its ephemeral construction.
"Social organization is messy and refractory, a shambles rather than a crystal […]. There is no tidy atom and no clear-cut world, only complex striations and long strings that reptate as in a polymer goo" (White, H.C. (2008), Identity and control, Princeton, Princeton University Press, p. 18).
The "#Workshop and #Performance: Transforming a Medieval Saga Into a Contemporary Ballad and Dance Performance" will take place at Freie Universität Berlin
(EXC 2020 "Temporal Communities" #FU_Berlin#EXC2020) on November 10/11, 2023.
The #workshop "Re-Imagining the Public Sphere: Stage, #Performance and Spectacle Around 1800" will be held at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (#UniBonn) on September 28/29, 2023.
Writing Scottishness: Literature and the Shaping of Scottish National Identities
Edited by Ian Brown and Clarisse Godard Desmarest
These fourteen essays explore literary manifestations of Scottishness, and examine the political, religious and cultural complexities that have shaped Scottish writing and performance through the centuries.
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1724, Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa was born in #Germany - fascinated and talented at #music#performance and #composition from an early age, she was made a member of Accademia dell’Arcadia of Rome in 1747. Maria published her operas anonymously under the name EPTA. Through marriage she was Electress of #Saxony and was regent for her son from 1763-1768. She died in Dresden, aged 55. #OTD#histodons@royalhistory@histodons
I wrote a bit about my latest project, a WordPress plugin for embedding fediverse posts, the motivation behind creating it, and some of the challenges.