Cultural Politics

“Annual Lloyd International Honors College Lecture“

Performance Activism: A Reconstructive Approach to Social Activism and Generating Possibility
Delivered September 12, 2022

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“Distinguishing Power From Authority“

International Society for Cultural Activity Research conference, August 6, 2021

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“Performing a Positive Alternative
Amid a Failing World Order
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Presented at the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, Manchester University, April 16, 2019

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”Something New Under the Sun”

Plenary Talk to Play, Perform, Learn, Grow Thessaloniki, Greece, April 13, 2018

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“Creating a Public Space/Activity for Civic Engagement and Development”

Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities Conference 2017
“Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy and Engagement” Northeastern University (November 3, 2017)

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“Performance Activism: An Emerging Global Strategy for Reinitiating Human Development and Creating Community”

Unpublished talk delivered at the 2017 Japan All Stars Workshop:
“The Future of Performatory Psychology in Action,” University of Tsukuba, Tokyo August 17, 2017

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“Theatre and Performance, Community and Development: The Castillo Experience“

Unpublished talk delivered at the International Conference on Social Learning and Recovery, Fu-Jen University, Taipei (November 25, 2016)

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“Self-Organizing Institutions and the Development of Citizenship Culture”

Unpublished Talk At International Conference On Citizenship Culture, Bogota, Colombia, October 19, 2016

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 “Performance and Development: Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Theatre, Community and Social Change”

 Revista Interdisciplinar De Gestão Social, 2013, Vol. 1, No. 1

“Good-bye Ideology, Hello Performance”

Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy, 2011, Vol. 30, No. 2

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“Diversity As A Method of Re-Distribution”

Unpublished talk at International Drama/Theatre and Education Association conference, Belém, Brazil (2010)

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“Toward a Postmodern Marxism…”

 Unpublished (2009)

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“Giving Away the Theatre. The Youth Onstage! Community Performance School: A Study in Building Bridges between Theatre Professionals and Inner City Youth”

2006

“Approaches to Social Change: The Politics of Social Development”

Unpublished (2005)

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“Performance of a Lifetime”: Interactive Growth Theatre and the Development of Performance in Everyday Life”

Theatre Insight (2000)

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“Performance as Revolutionary Activity: Liminality and Social Change”

Body, Space & Technology Journal, November, 2000, Vol. 1, No. 1

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“Twenty-Two Weeks of Pointless Conversation”

Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind, ed. Lois Holzman, Routledge (1999)

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“The Soviet Union in the 1920s—An Historical Laboratory”

Practice, 1990, Vol. 7, No. 3

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“What’s Possible? — A Way to Think About Thinking” with Fred Newman

 Practice, Fall 1987, Vol. 5, No. 2


Articles, Chapters and Talks by Dan Friedman

Cultural Politics

Theatre History and Criticism

Brecht, Müller and Newman