Book Launch,
Performances
& Roundtable

Join us for an interdisciplinary gathering to celebrate the launch of Randia’s Quiet Theatre: Performing Care and Activism with a Romani Elder (Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2025). Drawing on over two decades of ethnographic collaboration with a Romani elder in Poland, the book weaves autofiction, performance ethnography, and collaborative storytelling to rethink activism, reflexivity, and care in contexts of marginalization, disability, and migration.

The evening will include:

BOOK LAUNCH

Kazubowski-Houston will discuss the research and methodological approaches of Randia’s Quiet Theatre, highlighting how theatrical improvisation and co-performed ethnography can act as radical practices of care and activism.

STUDENT PERFORMANCES

Featuring three short pieces created by undergraduate students in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, adapted from storytelling sessions with Randia. Co-directors: Sasha Singer-Wilson and Rimah Jabr.

ROUNDTABLE
Autofiction, Ethnography, and Collaborative Creation

Othon Alexandrakis, Kenzie Allen, Natalia Balyasnikova, and Sheetala Bhat will discuss how research-creation methods are reshaping ethnographic and performance-based inquiry. Roundtable co-chairs: Sasha Singer-Wilson and Rimah Jabr.

Q&A

Light refreshments to follow Q&A.