Scientific Committee

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Antonia Amo Sánchez

Antonia Amo Sánchez is professor of contemporary Spanish literature at the University of Avignon (France).
He has devoted numerous works to Spanish theater of the 20th and 21st centuries. In recent years he has focused on the relationship between theater, historical memory and inheritance.
She was awarded the 2019 Artez Blai international theatrical essay prize for her work on the concentrationary republican memory in Spanish theater (From Pluto to Orpheus. Concentration Camps in Contemporary Spanish Theater (1944-2015). The link between heritage and theater is another of his lines of research, in close relation with the Avignon theater tradition (coédition de Théâtre dans le patrimoine: Les Carmes- Avignon, EUA, 2019).

Chris Baldwin

https://chrisbaldwin.eu

Chris Baldwin is the artistic director and co-founder of CCD Productions Ltd. He is widely known for Theater of Creation (ToC) and citizen-centered dramaturgy, approaches to large-scale performances designed for a place, about that place, and performed in deep collaboration with the people of that place.

His articles, books and plays can be found published in several languages. It also acts as an advisor to cities and rural areas wishing to develop their cultural policies, particularly in a European context (European Capitals of Culture).

Stephen Hanmer

https://yau.guru/

 

Stephen Hanmer D’Elia is a leader with an extensive track record of over 20 years working with children, youth and families affected by trauma and injustice around the world. Stephen has implemented comprehensive and far-reaching programs working and living in over 20 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, and Asia. Stephen has worked with a variety of organizations, including the United Nations, international organizations, and national and community organizations. Stephen holds degrees in law (J.D.) and social work (M.S.W.) from Columbia University and a B.A. in history from Yale University.

Tomás Motos Teruel

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomas_Motos

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-4860

D. in Philosophy and Educational Sciences with Extraordinary Award. Professor (retired) of Didactics and School Organization at the University of Valencia and co-director of the Master’s Degree in Applied Theater (University of Valencia).

Motos is a member of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts and his main work has been to systematize the pedagogy of theater in education. He has written more than twenty-five books and book chapters and some fifty articles. Author of two plays. His current field of interest is Applied Theater.

Patrice Pavis

Patrice Pavis has taught at the Universities of Paris III and Paris VIII, as well as at the University of Kent, at several German universities and at the National University of the Arts in Korea. He is an honorary member of the University of London and Honoris causa of the Universities of Bratislava and Sofia. He has written extensively on the problematics of adaptation, translation and performance, focusing his study and research mainly on semiology and interculturality in theater.

Isabelle Reck

Isabelle Reck is Professor (Contemporary Spanish Theater) at the University of Strasbourg. He has published numerous articles, book chapters and books on twentieth and twenty-first century theater. New Spanish theater (1965-1978). De l’enchantement textuel au désenchantement (PUS, 2010, 234p.). Among the co-edited books: Giroux-Murakami, S. and Reck, I., Why the theater ? Sources et situation actuelle du théâtre (Ed. Picquier, 2013, 252 p.) and Monica Molanes and Isabelle Reck (eds), Hispanic theater at the beginning of the 21st century. Hybridity, transgressions, compromise, and dissent.(Visor libros, col. ” Biblioteca Filológica hispana, 2019, 540p).
She is director of the magazine reCHERches. Culture and History in the Roman Space which is about to publish its 28th issue, and of the collection of monographs on 20th-21st century theater and translated dramatic texts, “hamARTia” (Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg).

Ana Sedano

Professor of Theatre Studies, Applied Theatre, Theatre Pedagogy/Curriculum Design.

D. in Theater Studies from the University of Alcalá. Research and academic coordinator of the UC School of Theater. He has national and international experience in teaching and research on applied theater in various areas (education, health and community). His doctoral thesis, published in 2016, received the Extraordinary Prize of the University of Alcalá (2019). She has also been awarded the “Programa Giner de los Ríos de Profesores e Investigadores Invitados para el curso 2016/2017” of the same university and has been awarded the “Joven Investigador” prize by the University of Burgos and the Sociedad Española de Pedagogía (2012). His publications in indexed journals, monographs and book chapters also stand out, in addition to the coordination of research projects, both internal and external (Conicyt PAI 2018/2021, Fondart 2021, among others).

Esther Uria Iriarte

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3694-7565

 

Esther Uria Iriarte holds a PhD in education. Her line of research is in areas such as Theater in Education, Arts Based Research, coexistence and school improvement. In 2020 she obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award for her thesis developed around theater as a pedagogical resource to promote coexistence in the context of secondary education. In addition to having developed her career as a professional actress in theater, film and television, she has a degree in Special Education and Psychopedagogy. She is currently a professor of Educational Sciences at the University of the Basque Country and is a member of the GANDERE research group (Gender Socialization and Educational Contexts). Since 2017, she has directed the educational-artistic project “Sormen”, promoted by the Union of Basque Actors and Actresses and subsidized by the Provincial Council of Guipúzcoa and Vizcaya.

Editorial Committee

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Sandra Camacho López

Actress, director, researcher and full professor at the University of Antioquia in Medellin (Colombia). She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performing Arts from the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, Paris 3. She is currently doing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès in the LLA-CREATIS laboratory (France) and is part of the European research project TransMigrARTS. She is editor-in-chief of the journal TMA. Her research interests include Research-creation, applied theatre, tragedy, contemporary dramaturgies and acting in contemporary theatre. Uprooting, migration, confinement, horror and barbarism have been the starting points of her various research projects, presentations and publications.

Monique Martinez Thomas

Professor at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, has been working since 1988 to promote contemporary theatre in France with the theatre company Les Anachroniques, collections of theatrical texts (PUM) and research essays (Lansman). For ten years, she was involved in promoting doctoral studies in socio-economic and cultural sectors, with the creation of the École des docteurs (4500 doctoral students). For the past 16 years, she has been conducting specific applied research with non-academic organisations. She is also a professor at the Universidad Distrital de Bogotá. Since 2021, she has developed three projects: european TransMigrARTS, national (first master’s degree in applied theatre in France) and regional TASI, Théâtre Appliqué Socialement Innovant (Socially Innovative Applied Theatre).

Fabrice Corrons

Lecturer at the Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès (France) where he teaches on bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Catalan and Hispanic studies. A member of the LLA-CREATIS group, he devotes much of his research to the performing arts in Catalan-speaking territories, although he also works on Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and, more recently, Colombia. He specialises in intermedial studies, cultural identities, multilingualism and ethical issues. He is a researcher for the European project TransMigrARTS. He translates Spanish, Catalan and Galician plays into French.

Ángela Rocío Valderrama Díaz

Teacher and playwright. Since 2007, she has been a full professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the National Pedagogical University of Colombia. As a professor, she focuses on the Poetics of western dramatic thought, Dramaturgy, and Research in performing arts. As a playwright she worked on “La Celebración, un gesto del deseo” (2010), “Carmina Burana” (2011), “VAI-VEM” (2015),  “Manu o la Ilusión del Tiempo” (2016) and “Gastón y Mandy” (2022). She has published “In Memoriam” (2016), a dramatic adaptation of Homer’s Iliad, and articles reflecting on Colombian theatrical practice.

 

Nina Jambrina

PhD in Performing Arts, specializes in contemporary Latin American dramaturgy, particularly from Colombia, and works on the themes of political theater, applied theater, ethics in art, creative research and theatrical translation. She is also a research engineer for the CRISO (Création et Innovation Sociétale) platform of the LLA-CREATIS Laboratory (Lettres, Langues et Arts), Toulouse II – Université Jean Jaurès.