Dr Emma Cox, RHUL, in conversation with Iman Aoun

Dr Emma Cox, Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London, interviews Iman Aoun, member of the Ariadne network, director and founder of Ashtar Theatre, Palestine.

Emma spoke about her own practice and research, as well as her previous meeting with Iman when they discussed Ashtar Theatre and Iman’s collaborations with the UK theatre company, Border Crossings. Emma’s research is concerned with the representation and participation of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in theatre, film and activism and she is the author of the books Performing Noncitizenship (Anthem 2015) and Theatre & Migration (Palgrave 2014). Other recent work includes a book chapter on 'Economies of Atonement in the European Museum: Repatriation and the Post-Rational', and a forthcoming essay for Theatre Journal, 'Processional Aesthetics and Irregular Transit: Envisioning Refugees in Europe'. She is developing an interdisciplinary, transnational project on cultural and performance histories associated with human remains, which encompasses theatrical performance, exhibition, activism and site-responsive memorialisation, examining psychological, philosophical and political dimensions of grief and the material trajectories of remains across a range of contexts (repatriation, migration, war, diplomacy, art). Emma is a contributing author to The Conversation and as an arts critic (2005-07) she has written numerous review and feature articles on theatre, dance and circus (Courier-Mail), visual art (Courier-Mail) and literature (Sydney Morning Herald).