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URL:https://theatre.colostate.edu/events/lecture-speaking-truth-to-power-s
 outh-african-theatre-and-social-change/
SUMMARY:Lecture: Speaking Truth to Power: South African Theatre and Social 
 Change
DESCRIPTION:The International Symposium is Feb. 27 – March 1\, 2023\n\n
 As part of the annual symposium\, Dr. Megan Lewis will give her lecture on
  March 1 at 10 a.m. in the Lory Student Center\, Room 3-8-10.\nSpeaking Tr
 uth to Power: South African Theatre and Social Change: How do the perform
 ing arts participate in social transformation? Dr. Megan Lewis has spent h
 er career researching South African theatre\, film\, and performance\, and
  the roles the arts play in culture\, especially during times of significa
 nt upheaval and change. As Brecht once said\, art can hold up a mirror to 
 culture and also be a hammer with which to shape it. In this engaging sess
 ion\, Lewis will chronicle how theatre helped move South Africa out of its
  racist apartheid past and into a new democracy. She will showcase some of
  the most provocative\, creative\, and brilliant theatremakers and shakers
  as they speak truth to power\, use satire as a social corrective\, build 
 community across difference\, dance up new possibilities\, and challenge s
 ystems of power for a better future. This presentation will include video\
 , visuals\, and highlights from her body of scholarship. Artists include A
 thol Fugard\, John Kani and Winston Ntshona\, Magnet Theatre\, Peter van H
 eerden\, Ewok Robinson\, Mamela Nyamza\, Mwenya Kabwe\, Die Antwoord\, and
  Gaven Hood\, among others.\n\nMegan Lewis\, Associate Professor and Direc
 tor of Theatre\, Colorado State University\nMegan Lewis is a South African
  American theatre historian and performance scholar. She is the author of 
 Performing Whitely in the Postcolony (2016\, University of Iowa Press) and
  Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space (2016\, Intellect Books and
  UNISA Press)\, which won the Hiddingh-Currie National Book Award in 2018.
  She is currently working on her third book project: a study of safari as 
 performance. Lewis has published on African political theatre\, film\, and
  performance in Theatre Journal\, Performing Arts Journal\, Theatre Histor
 y Studies\, Text &amp\; Performance\, Theatre Topics\, and The Journal of 
 Dramatic Theory and Criticism.\n\nLewis is a multidisciplinary educator wi
 th a passion for inspiring intellectual curiosity and advocating for the p
 erforming arts as a powerful force for social activation and change. Her t
 eaching passions include African theatre and film\, the politics of perfor
 mance\, non-Western performance traditions\, theatre of dissent\, the perf
 ormance of gender (masculinity) and race (whiteness) in South Africa\, and
  white allyship. Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado State University
 \, she taught at the University of Minnesota and UMass Amherst.\n\nLewis
 ’ accolades include a 2015 Distinguished Teacher Award from UMass Amhers
 t\; a national book award\; an intensive summer study abroad program – A
 rts &amp\; Culture in South Africa – focused around the National Arts Fe
 stival in Grahamstown/Makhanda\; and two global teaching voyages for Semes
 ter at Sea. She served as graduate program director and Multicultural Thea
 ter Certificate director before taking on the exciting new leadership chal
 lenge as director of Theatre at CSU.
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