Just one week ago I joined the KIZILBASH / ALEVISM - BEKTASHISM SYMPOSIUM: New Corpora, Databases, and Digital Tools in Ottoman and Contemporary Contexts at @ox.ac.uk, masterfully convened by #YelizTeber. I just spent an hour or so to put down this little reflection so I’d rather share it...

Last Chance to Register: Ivor Guest Research Grants Celebration Event – TONIGHT! The Society for Dance Research invites you to a celebration of the Ivor Guest Research Grants, taking place tonight, Tuesday 26th May 2026, from 6–7.30pm (UK time) via Zoom.

The Society for Dance Research is delighted to invite you to two upcoming online events: ☕ Research Café on Thu 21st May (today!) at 12.30pm BST. An informal space to share ideas, discuss ongoing projects and connect with others working across dance research and practice. To register: bit.ly/4uZzGrF

Heading back to Oxford this week for an exciting symposium on new corpora, databases and digital tools in Bektashi and Alevi studies! Excited to join and connect with fellow researchers. Thank you very much Yeliz Teber for organising! #Oxford #Symposium #Research

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"KIZILBASH/ALEVISM-BEKTASHISM SYMPOSIUM: New Corpora, Databases, and Digital Tools in Ottoman and Contemporary Contexts" Programme and registration An event we're pleased to be supporting at Wolfson College Oxford (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) on 22 May 2026 pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

“Independent research in dance: challenges, opportunities, networks", a provocation by Sara Wookey and Anna Pakes ahead of the Society for Dance Research’s AGM 2026. Sat 21/03 (online, GMT) • 11:00 Provocation • 12:30 AGM • 14:00 Close us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Photo: Camilla Greenwell

Excited to share some of my research, reconnect with old friends, and meet new researchers at the CEST Winter Symposium in Napoli starting today! www.unior.it/en/node/3789

Who Owns the Nation? Imperial Imaginaries and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Turkey

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The pleasure of unboxing the latest issue of Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research —an organisation for which I was honoured to become co-chair this year, alongside the always brilliant Kathryn Stamp.

Ci hai lasciato con delle parole straordinarie come te. Nei commenti posto una traduzione in inglese perché vorrei davvero che il tuo messaggio viaggi lontano, e che anche chi non ti ha conosciuto possa capire un po’ di cosa stiamo parlando. Grazie zia... www.ilcentro.it/pescara/il-m...

«Il mio ultimo saluto»: la lettera testamento di Marivera De Rosa | Il Centro

L’addio della sindaca di Luco dei Marsi: «La mia vita è stata piena e pienamente vissuta e ha avuto ciò che conta»

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Next week I will join dear friends and distinguished colleagues in Hamburg for a workshop on 'Alevism through Emotions'. It is exciting to go back to Hamburg after many years (should be 17!). www.religionen.uni-hamburg.de/alevitische-...

It’s almost time for … our next Choreographic Forum! Join us online on 🗓️ Tuesday 24 June, 6–7pm for a discussion on 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 by choreographer Bawren Tavaziva. Register here: tinyurl.com/greed-sdr 📷 Raluca Maria Polodeanu

Grazie #francescaalbanese

Both as previous recipient of the Ivor Guest Research Grant and now as co-chair of the Society for Dance Research, I can’t urge you more to come to this event! It will be online and it’s free although we’re inviting donations to continue offering the grants in the future ;)

Bethany Johnstone@bljohnstone.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Join @sdanceresearch.bsky.social to celebrate the Ivor Guest Award Recipients! 🗓️ Fri 30 May 2025 | 6–7:30pm | 📍Online 🎟️ Register for a Free ticket: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💖 To Donate & Support future grants, if you can: justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

With presentations by Dr Adesola Akinleye, Professor Ann R. David, Christina Fulcher and Ruth Anna Phillips on topics including the tools of neurodiversity in theatre and dance processes, transdisciplinarity, and image permissions for publication ⬇️ Do not miss it!

Bethany Johnstone@bljohnstone.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Join @sdanceresearch.bsky.social to celebrate the Ivor Guest Award Recipients! 🗓️ Fri 30 May 2025 | 6–7:30pm | 📍Online 🎟️ Register for a Free ticket: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💖 To Donate & Support future grants, if you can: justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be sharing the recordings from our past Choreographic Forums in case they are of interest to any practitioners or dance researchers ⬇️

Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like. Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...

Developing Anti-Fascist Pedagogies

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Great time at Coventry Uni for the Moving Online symposium with ‘stories we…’, a roundtable-devised-as-a-score together with Ariadne Mikou

Excited to contribute to the lecture series "Interdisciplinary Studies in Alevism“ at the University of Vienna this Tuesday - also accessible via Zoom - thank you very much Deniz Coşan Eke for the invitation!

it was an honour to teach an online workshop on drawing and writing movement for the Drama for Physical Education course at Şırnak university earlier this week. I appreciate all the work by the two lecturers as well as the students’ generosity! thanks for the invitation!!! #movement #drawing #drama

So happy that the Kurdish poet we campaigned for at PEN Norway during the past 5 years is finally free!! Ilhan Sami Çomak was arrested and tortured as a student 30 years ago - at last he is united with freedom! Great work by everyone! Here is his poetry: smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?boo...

Friends in London! Check out this anthology of Ilhan Sami Comak s poetry … he was released last night after spending 30 years in prison!

Line Stockford@linecaro.bsky.social · 2y ago

⭐ 📖 London poets & readers! Come to the launch of anthology of worlds poets writing for imprisoned Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Çomak! İlhan was released last night after 30 years, 3 months and 6 days in prison. Come to the launch TOMORROW, Camden Arts Centre! 💓 palewellpress.co.uk/calendar/ite...

a while ago in Istanbul learning a movement from Yeşim Coşkun’s ‘4Kapı 40Makam’ (2011) to create Kinetography Laban score of the choreography #movementnotation #kinetographylaban #labanotation #4kapi40makam @yesimcoskun

Caroline it was such a delight to have you! And great to find you on blue Skye!

Line Stockford@linecaro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Thank you Sinibaldo de Rosa and Milan University department of Performance and Politics for the opportunity to give the inaugural lecture on 'Standing with Artists and Writers in Authoritarian Times' in your current lecture series. Loved Milan. ☕🤩

Register for the Society for Dance Research’s first online Choreographic Forum on Black British Ballet's 'Island Movements' this Thursday #danceresearch #windrush #blackbritishballet www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/choreograp...

Choreographic Forum - Black British Ballet's 'Island Movements'

Join the online Choreographic Forum to discuss Island Movements, Black British Ballet’s tale of Windrush generation, and share your thoughts

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Posing with miss Ila Bila @milanocadornafn winter