Cultural Politics


“Distinguishing Power From Authority“

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

“Performing a Positive Alternative
Amid a Failing World Order

Presented at the Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference, Manchester University, April 16, 2019



Something New Under the Sun

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

“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)

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Unpublished talk delivered at the 2017 Japan All Stars Workshop: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

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Unpublished talk delivered at the International Conference on Social Learning and Recovery, Fu-Jen University, Taipei (November 25, 2016)

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

Unpublished Talk At International Conference On Citizenship Culture, Bogota, Colombia, October 19, 2016

 “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

“Diversity As A Method of Re-Distribution”

Unpublished talk at International Drama/Theatre and Education Association conference, Belém, Brazil (2010)

“Toward a Postmodern Marxism…”

 Unpublished (2009)

“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Unpublished (2005)

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

Theatre Insight (2000)

“Performance as Revolutionary Activity: Liminality and Social Change”

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

“Twenty-Two Weeks of Pointless Conversation”

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

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

 Practice, Fall 1987, Vol. 5, No. 2