PPP Fridays@2: A Conversation with Henry Castillo

Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series for a conversation with Henry Castillo, PhD, on Shakespeare, Race and Social Justice.

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Henry Castillo, PhD, a Research Fellow in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.

Talk: Shakespeare, Race and Social Justice

When discussing Shakespeare and race, we must consider multiple time periods, as Shakespeare's world was different from ours. Considering this, we are faced with the question of whether Shakespeare's world has any relevance to the 21st century in terms of racial dynamics. If that is the case, what are the implications for performance and social justice? Using theatre history archives, this presentation seeks to answer these questions.

About Henry Castillo

Henry Castillo (he/his/el) is an Afro-Latinx scholar-artist and educator of theatre and performance studies. He is a Research Fellow in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. His work intersects performance, heritage studies and critical and aesthetic theory to challenge the Western canon of theatre studies and explore the ways in which subjects and subjectivities animate Blackness in Latinx America and the Caribbean in a variety of scenarios, including everyday life. Currently, he is working on his first monograph, entitled Racialized Bodies as Heritage (under contract with University of Michigan Press). 

Henry is a former member of the Colombian avant-garde collective Teatro Experimental de Cali, led by the late maestro Enrique Buenaventura. He holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Theatre and Linguistics from UCLA.

DATE

February 21, 2025 at 2:00 p.m.
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