Dissertation Defense: Jessica Litwak’s My Heart Is in the East

CultureHub presented Jessica Litwak’s dissertation defense My Heart Is in the East: Exploring Theater as a Vehicle For Change, Inspired by the Poetic Performances of Ancient Andalusia livestreamed from New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 9 May at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco) / 11 a.m. MDT (Albuquerque) / 12 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York) / 17:00 GMT / 6 p.m. BST (London) / 7 p.m. CEST (Seville). 

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Antioch University PhD candidate Jessica Litwak will defend her dissertation about theatre as a vehicle for change using a period of history known as La Convivencia (the Co-existence) as inspiration. Through performative auto ethnography she explores her own field work in the Middle East. Using historical and arts based research Litwak investigates a community of ancient poets who briefly made peace possible between Muslims and Jews through poetic exchange in medieval Spain.

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