Sinibaldo De Rosa

Conferences/Symposiums

23rd November 2019:

Ritual, Performance and Commemoration in Alevi Contexts

I was invited to present this paper during the international symposium 'The Performance of Lament as production of Cultural Intimacy: from the ritual of Ashura to contemporary artistic practices' at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. 

18th September 2018:

ASA2018: Sociality, matter and the imagination: re-creating anthropology

ASA Postgraduate funding awarded to present the paper 'Loss in the Gezi Protests' Aftermath: Performing Biz in the Europalia/Turkey Festival' as part of the panel 'Revolutions and Activism in Retrospect: the Material and Immaterial Production of Meanings and Legacies'

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2018/p/6780

13th September 2018:

RAI Pop-up Student conference

I presented the paper 'Alevi Futures on Stage: Bedirhan Dehmen's Biz' during the Royal Anthropology Institute Pop-Up Student Conference at the University of Bristol

https://www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar/past-events/eventdetail/580/-/rai-student-conference

6th December 2017:

Aesthetic Dimension of Alevi Cultural Heritage, Lecture Series in Autumn & Winter, Orient Institut Istanbul

(Invited Speaker) ‘Movement and Adaptation of the Alevi semah for the stage: from Kardeşlik Töreni-Samah to Biz’, Aesthetic Dimension of Alevi Cultural Heritage, Lecture Series in Autumn & Winter, Orient Institut Istanbul, Turkey, 6 December 2017.

July 2017:

ICTM World Conference

 Presentation of the paper 'Alevi Frontiers, Ritual Movements and Staged Adaptation: the Eşik' (proposal accepted in the panel ‘Balkan Fantasias: Subverting Frontiers through Music’) during the 44th ICTM World Conference hosted by the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland.

July 2017:

29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology

Presentation of the poster ‘Applying the Kinetography Laban in a Transnational Exploration of the Semah of the Alevis: Dilemmas, Difficulties and Opportunities’ Poster presentation during the 29th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, hosted at the University of Graz, July 2016.

May 2017:

Mo(u)vement CASCA/IUAES Conference

Presentation of the paper ‘Kinetographizing the Alevi semah’ (as part of the panel ‘Between experiencing and ethnographizing in practice-based research’) during the Mo(u)vement CASCA/IUAES Conference, hosted by the University of Ottawa, Canada, 2-7 May 2017

July 2016:

4th Turkish Migration Conference

Presentation of the paper ‘An Alevi Concert Event in Paris: Doğa Aşkına – Terre, Mon Amour’ at the 4th Turkish Migration Conference, University of Vienna, Austria, July 2016

July 2015:

29th Biennial ICKL Conference

Presentation of the paper ‘Prompting a Dialogue between the Kinetography Laban and the Alevi Semah’ at the 29th Biennial ICKL Conference, Tours, France, July 2015

Graduate School Skills Workshops

19th June 2017:

Introductory Workshop on Laban Movement Analysis

In 2017 I obtained a GW4 Award (Doctoral Student Training Scheme) for the organisation of an Introductory Workshop on Laban Movement Analysis led by Dr. Jean Johnson Jones, University of Surrey.

http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/gw4-2014-v2/all-events/introductory-workshop-to-laban-movement-analysis/

Award

November 2013:

Selma Jeanne Cohen Award

I was awarded the Society of Dance History Scholars’ Selma Jeanne Cohen Award for writing the best English-language paper by a graduate student demonstrating excellence in dance scholarship during the SDHS/CORD Conference 'Decentering Dance Studies - Moving in New Global Orders' at the University of California - Riverside. 

Judges Mention

17th May 2017:

Postgraduate Research Showcase at the University of Exeter

I received a Judges Mention for my Poster with the title: 'Looking at the Alevi semah through the Kinetography Laban' during the Postgraduate Research Showcase at the University of Exeter
 
Read more at https://www.exeter.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/researcherdevelopment/research-showcase/researchpostercompetition/#HoMAqBMycADgsuSu.99