Sunday Scholar Series
January 31, 2010
Following the performance (approximately 3:40 pm)

• A free one-hour, post-show panel discussion with experts on the themes and issues of the play

You do not need to attend the performance that day to participate in this discussion. Just arrive and enter the theater after the performance ends.

The Sunday Scholars panel will be moderated by TimeLine Board member Peter Kuntz, executive director of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

The discussion will feature:

Lisa Brock
A driving force in this city’s anti apartheid movement, Lisa Brock is now chair of Columbia College Chicago’s Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department. She worked with the college library to mount a visual history of Chicago’s role in the activism that changed the course of world events. She is also a professor of African history and Diaspora studies at Columbia. Her articles on South Africa, Mozambique, African-Americans, Cuba and Blacks in the Diaspora have appeared in such journals as Cuban Studies, Contributions in Black Studies, Issue: A Journal of Opinion, Souls, Peace Review and Temas: Cultura, Ideologicía, Sociedad and in book collections such as Africa’s Media Image. Her book, Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans Before the Cuban Revolution (Temple University Press), was published in 1998 and her writings are regularly a part of the website AfroCubaweb.

Loren Kruger
Loren Kruger is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago, focusing especially on literature and visual culture in South Africa, and drama and performance in English, French, German and Spanish across Africa, the African diaspora, the Americas, and Europe. In addition to books and articles on theatre, she has published research on cinema, television, prose fiction and graphic fiction, as well as translations of research in French and German. She is a contributing editor of Theatre Research International and Scrutiny2 (in South Africa). She is affiliated with the Committees of African Studies and Theater and Performance Studies as well as the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature and German. Kruger's teaching interests include courses on South African literature and visual culture; Marxist theory and modern culture; cinema in Africa; drama, theatre, image, performance; history and theory of drama; Brecht and beyond; realism, socialism and modernism; catharsis and other aesthetic responses; performance and representation in theatre and theory; translation theory and practice; drama in Africa and the African diaspora; and urban theory and performance.