Giselle Garcia
Conferences/Symposiums
9th October 2018: | Creative Practice PhD Forum(University of Exeter, U.K.) I presented my creative methodological approach to writing theatre histories. |
21st September 2018: | Department of Drama Pre-Sessional(University of Exeter, U.K.) I presented a paper at the Methods Roundtable on walking and autoethnography for performance documentation and historiography. |
August 2018: | Summer Institute Cologne 2018(University of Cologne, Germany) Poster Presentation on Adaptation and Walking |
24th April 2018: | College of Humanities PGR ConferenceCrossing Borders (University of Exeter, U.K.) I presented a paper on how a psychogeography of Manila emerges from a trialectic of Shakespearean turns in the panel "Intellectual Encounters and Conflicts" |
7th November 2017: | DocPerform 2: New TechnologiesDocumenting Performance: The Future of Documents Project (City, University of London U.K.) I presented on the second day of the conference under the theme: "Where are we going?" where I looked at the subject position of the drama researcher as a walking dramaturg because the catalogue of such experience becomes a form of performance documentation in the archive of theatre histories. |
5th November 2017: | A Sense of Place: arts, enterprise and placemaking(University of Bedfordshire, Luton, U.K.) Presented on the Panel "Urban Gentrification and Arts Practice" I presented a case study on a specific area in Metro Manila in the Philippines called "Teacher's Village" where the regenerative role of food in its gentrification relates to arts practice within the area. |
22nd September 2017: | Department of Drama Pre-Sessional(University of Exeter, U.K.) I presented a revised version of "Acts of Autopsy: A Performace Analysis of The Mousetrap: Anti-Hamlet" for the 2017 Department of Drama Pre-Sessional in the Research Panel: Performance in the World |
20th May 2017: | The Past is Back on Stage(Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France) Presented on the Panel "Through the Lens of Theater Companies" I presented a paper entitled, "Acts of Autopsy: A Performance Analysis of The Mousetrap: Anti-Hamlet" discussing how the performance interrogates Shakespeare's Hamlet and its relevance in Filipino theatre. |
8th June 2016: | Idea Exchange: Tok! Tok! Talk! Conference at Karnabal Festival(Metro Manila) Forum Panelist on Performance Practices: Working with/in universities |
23rd April 2016: | Asian Dramaturgs Network Inaugural SymposiumMapping Out, In and About (Singapore) Forum Panelist on "Mapping the Terrain" and "Dramaturgy in Action I: Practical Realities" |
21st February 2014: | MNL X: Experimental Theatre Festival(Cultural Center of the Philippines, Metro Manila) Forum Panelist on "What kind of theater animal is dramaturgy?" |
Graduate School Skills Workshops
August 2018: | Summer Institute Cologne 2018Summer Institute Cologne 2018: Construction Sites (University of Cologne, Germany) Theatre Historiography Seminar Participant Led by Tracy Davis and Peter Marx 27 August - 7 September 2018 |
15th March 2018: | Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2 - HumanitiesFour-week program that covered: - teaching for interactive learning, teaching methods, using technology - planning your teaching - assessment principles and challenges - marking and giving feedback - practising teaching through an extended microteaching exercise - evaluating practice and future professional development |
12th January 2017: | Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Stage 1 - HumanitiesOne-day workshop aimed at discussing the foundational skills required for teaching students at a higher education institute. |
Funding
9th December 2018: | IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) Conference BursaryAwarded a conference bursary to attend the 2019 IFTR Conference in Shanghai, China |
5th July 2017: | The Glynne Wickham Scholarship (The Standing Conference of University Drama Departments)Received funding support for The Past is Back on Stage conference in Montpellier, France |
May 2017: | The Past is Back on Stage Conference BursaryReceived funding support from EMMA, Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier, France |
Awards and Recognitions
July 2018: | TaPRA Postgraduate Essay CompetitionShortlisted Essay: Acts of Autopsy |