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TPST-134 Performance of Identity in Contemporary US Political Life
Fall only
Rohd, Michael
The class will feature a weekly, public one-on-one interview series with a diverse array of intellectuals, experts, and citizens about the core concepts and questions the class addresses. Taught by Visiting Professor Michael Rohd(Artistic Director of Portland, Oregon's nationally acclaimed Sojourn Theatre & The Ethel M Barber Visiting Chair of Theater at Northwestern University) who will simultaneously be developing "The Race", an original theatrical production about the 2008 Presidential election to premiere in the Gonda Theater. The class will explore central questions related to identity and modern politics that include: What personas do we demand our leaders present to gain our support? How does media technology impact a candidate's ability and need to consistently construct a public self for a vastly diverse and widespread viewing constituency? What current issues present value divides across our nation and how do candidates strategically respond to these divides while honoring their core principles and voting bases? And, how is authenticity performed, demonstrated and sought in the exchange that is modern electoral politics? The research in the class will be a part of the research for the production; the activities all contributing to a campus-wide investigation into political narrative and engagement in our communities today. The campaign is to engage the Georgetown University community, and its surrounding DC community, in an intense affair with the power of live theater, and with the issues and dynamics of the Presidential Election as it moves through its final months. The final result will be a living, ongoing ethno-fiction with a direct relationship to real-time events as they unfold in the Fall of 2008. Crosslisted with, and offered in conjunction with, the American Studies Program.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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