with Dr. Kathleen Gallagher
New Imaginaries for Socio-Ecological Justice
Wednesday March 19, 2025 @12:30-1pmET
Can performance be a site for new imaginaries for socio-ecological justice? In this talk Dr. Kathleen Gallagher will share ethnographic research on the climate crisis as explored by young people in drama-making spaces across six international sites – Toronto, Canada; Bogotá, Colombia; Lucknow, India; Coventry, England; Thessaloniki, Greece; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. How are diverse youth understanding and relating to the climate crisis through their theatre practices? How does theatre and performance invite us to ask different, better, intergenerational, and culturally-attuned questions about the climate emergency? Offered as part of SCAN’s Research Talk Series.
All are welcome to attend this free event; please for this event.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kathleen Gallagher
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Toronto, Dr. Kathleen Gallagher studies theatre as a powerful medium for expression by young people of their experiences and understandings. She has published numerous books and articles on theatre pedagogy and socially-engaged theatre-making. Her most recent award-winning monograph is titled (UTP 2022) based on an ethnographic project which also produced Towards Youth: a play on radical hope, a Verbatim play by playwright-collaborator Andrew Kushnir, co-produced by Project: Humanity and Crow’s theatre, premiering at Crow’s Theatre in 2019 and Finding Radical Hope, a documentary film directed by Andrew Kushnir and Chris Altorf and screened at Crow’s Theatre in 2020. Her newly published edited collection, based on her current ethnographic project, is titled (Routledge 2025).
