Performance and Pedagogy: A Panel with Asif Majid and Rishika Mehrishi, 4/3

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Please join Graduate Teaching and Learning Conversations (Grad TLC) and the Graduate Humanities Circle on Wednesday, April 3rd at 4:30pm for a panel conversation with Asif Majid and Rishika Mehrishi about their scholarship, teaching, and career trajectories. This event is sponsored by CHAT and the Graduate School. 

Rishika Mehrishi is assistant professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre + Dance at UC San Diego. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University’s Theater and Performance Studies department, MA from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and BA (honors) from Delhi University. Her research on more-than-human performances intersects multispecies ethnography, ecocriticism, postcolonial studies, South Asian studies, anti-caste pedagogies and activism, and performances in/from the Global South. Her first book project "Animal Entanglements: Interspecies Performance in South Asia," explores how performances centered on animals shape contemporary discourses on caste, religion, gender, and sexuality in India and its diasporas. Rishika is also a performance artist and makes durational art that draws heavily on everyday rituals of laboring bodies. Most recently, she conceived and performed in Out of Breath, a piece about migrant worker crises, at Stanford University. 
 

Asif Majid is a scholar-artist-educator working at the intersection of racialized sociopolitical identities, multimedia, marginality, and new performance, particularly through devising community-based participatory theatre and making improvisational music. Currently, he serves as Assistant Professor of Theatre and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Prior to UConn, Asif was a Mellon/ACLS Public Fellow with the San Francisco Arts Commission and a Lab Fellow with The Laboratory for Global Performance and Performance. Asif has published in multiple peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as numerous books, media outlets. His research interests include performance ethnography, the intersection of Islam and performance, community-based devising, social justice performance, the ethnography of race, and applied theatre. Asif’s US performance credits include work with the Kennedy Center, Convergence Theatre, and Theatre Prometheus, and his UK performance credits include the Royal Exchange Theatre, Action Transport Theatre, and Unity Theatre. Asif earned his PhD in Anthropology, Media, and Performance from The University of Manchester; his MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University; and his self-designed BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: Global Peace Building and Conflict Management from UMBC. 
 

This event will be held on Zoom. If you would like to attend virtually, please contact Jennifer Minnen (jennifer.minnen@tufts.edu).