Fellow in Focus: Dr Tania Cañas

Recorded 28 May 2024. Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research
Fellow Dr Tania Cañas (University of Melbourne) in conversation
with Dr Erika Piazzoli (School of Education). Bio
Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-based researcher based
in Narrm (Melbourne) Australia on unceded Kulin Territory. Her work
looks at the intersection of forced displacement, performance,
borders and socially engaged practice.  She is the former
Artistic Director at RISE Refugee, the first organisation to be
run, governed and controlled by the Refugee, Asylum Seeker and
Ex-Detainee community. She was also the Artistic Lead at cohealth
Arts Gen, a community arts and health organisation. Most recently,
she founded Archiving the Present (AtP), a multi-site digital
community archive project that develops alternative practices of
remembering which challenge colonial aesthetics. In 2023, She was
named Global Connector by the International Network of Contemporary
Performing Arts - in recognition of her leadership and commitment
to increasing global awareness, inclusion, accessibility, and
connectivity for the benefit of communities. Tania co-edited
an anthology of plays about Australia’s border regime ‘Staging
Asylum, Again’ (2024) through Currency Press Australia. She will
begin a Banting postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of
Western Ontario, Canada. working with the Surviving Memory in
Postwar El Salvador initiative in 2024. Please let us know if you
have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so
that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact:
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