
Performance and Narration of Pandemic (3 Credits)
This interdisciplinary course employs techniques of devised performance to engage narratives from various pandemics, including both the COVID pandemic and the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918, as a catalyst and developmental research process for a new performance collaboration between Georgetown’s Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, the School of Health, Global Health Institute, and DC’s Mosaic Theater Company.
Time: Tuesday 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Instructor: Derek Goldman

In Your Shoes: Embodiment & Dialogue (1 Credit)
Since 2018, the In Your Shoes (IYS) project, created by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, has been a way to move beyond social divides by illuminating the hopes, fears, and dreams that animate the daily lives of students through performance and dialogue.
Time: Tuesday 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Instructor: Ijeoma Njaka and Emma Jaster

In Your Shoes: Dialogue and Facilitation in Our Campus Community (2 credits)
How might the Georgetown campus or experience change when we engage across silos and divides? This course will focus on facilitating the IYS experience between students, faculty, and staff on our campus.
Time: Friday 12 PM – 3PM, February 24 – April 28, 2023
Instructor: Ijeoma Njaka and Ryann Craig

TPST/DANC 210: Empathy & Embodiment (3 Credits)
In this studio class we will investigate the many modes of movement that bring us together as humans across linguistic, cultural, generational, and national borders. We explore the concept of the body as a culture-bearer and its movement as a mode of connection with the otherwise “other.” Students will learn to use empathy as a tool in everything from psychology to diplomacy. .
Time: Wednesday 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM
Instructor: Emma Jaster

Bearing Witness: The Legacy of Jan Karski Today

Dialogue and Difference: Performing One Another

Encounters in Global Performance
