Radical Imagination

Please join the conversation on “Radical Imagination,” a YSC Session with filmmaker and producer Shivaike Shah, Professor Eric Glover, and doctoral candidate Nebojša Todorović exploring how imagination spans across disciplines in research and practice (including the sciences, professional practices, etc.) and the ripple effects that creativity has on one's work.

Sessionists include:

Shivaike Shah is a British Indian producer who has worked in fashion, theatre, and film, who just finished production on a major Netflix feature film. After graduating in English from University College, Oxford, in 2019, he founded Khameleon Productions. Shah is currently touring major US universities with his Uprooting Medea project and is a Visiting Artist with the Brown Arts Institute, at Brown University.

Eric Glover is an assistant professor adjunct of dramaturgy and dramatic criticism at Yale where he is an expert on Black musical theater. Eric’s first book in progress, an antiracist history of the musicals and the antimusicals of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Glover is proud to be the first Black full-time dramaturgy and dramatic criticism faculty member at the David Geffen School of Drama.

Nebojša Todorović is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Yale University. Moving within and beyond the theoretical frameworks of trauma theory, refugee studies, sea studies, and classical reception, his dissertation (provisionally entitled Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity) traces the reception of classical Greek tragedies in the post-conflict contexts of the “greater Balkans” extending beyond the former Yugoslavia to the Republic of Greece and Italy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Todorović taught an Introductory Latin class for the Yale Prison Education Initiative in Summer of 2019.

Format
This Session will take place in-person and is open to asymptomatic vaccinated and boosted participants only. Please bring your COVID 19 vaccination card or a clearly legible photo of your vaccination card on your phone and a photo ID. Front of House staff will be checking tickets, IDs, and proof of vaccination.

Expectations
Nine seats are available for this Session. Registration closes on Thursday, February 17 at 5 pm.  You will be notified via email by Friday, February 18 on whether you will be attending the Session in person. Due to the limited space, those who do not land a seat in the in-person session will automatically be enrolled in the virtual conversation on March 1, 2022 (more details to follow).

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