Peopling the Palace(s) Festival 2023 Schedule
Saturday 3 June – Sunday 11 June 2023
Queen Mary University of London
Free tickets to all events here: bit.ly/peoplesthepalaces2023
Peopling the Palace(s) Festival invites you to connect with academics, artists, students, and alumni in 9 full days of performances, films, conferences, exhibitions, conversations & fun.
Saturday 3 June
19:00
First Flights: Clear the Runway, a curated platform of QMUL graduate performances
Sunday 4 June
19:00
Sunday Night Special an informal salon for talking, showing and sharing any old or new ideas and projects with QM alumni and friends
Monday 5 June
11:00 (in person) 14:00 (online)
Creative Skills Academy: Online Journalism, workshop with Ru Dannreuther
14:30
What the F*** am I doing with my Life?
15:00
Writing with other-than-humans, a workshop with QMUL Alumni, Rosa Postlewaite
16:00 and 18:45
Moonface, a new solo performance by QMUL alumni Meg Hodgson followed by a Long Table on Intergalactic Colonisation at 19:30
Tuesday 6 June
14:00-16:00
A Public Studio on Neurological Disease Prevention and Risk Assessment, a conversation that uses the designer’s studio as a format for creative problem-solving with Dr Ruth Dobson, a consultant neurologist, and Dr Alison Thomson, a design researcher from the Preventive Neurology Unit at the Wolfson Institute
16:30- 18:30
Feeling Places, a participatory research collaboration with Departments of Drama, Film, Geography, and young people from local schools to explore the psychogeography of the university
19:00
Through the Diaspora: Through the Diaspora: PtP Film Festival, 2 screenings followed by Q&As with the film makers
11:00
Kiki Tianqi Yu’s Nest, a documentary that follows the life of Fang Junrui, who encounters relentless obstacles in his pursuit of a job.
19:00
Yasmin Fedda’s Ayouni, a film searching for answers about loved ones, who are among the over 100,000 forcibly disappeared in Syria.
Wednesday 7 June
9:30-13:00 (Exhibition runs to 18:00)
Women/Theatre/Justice, a sharing of findings from the Women/Theatre/Justice research project with and about Clean Break Theatre Company that includes a long table, an exhibition, and film screenings.
19:00
All Hands on Deck, a vinyl DJ workshop with SuperSevens. No experience necessary.
20:00-23:00
After Hours Performance Club, inclusive queer performance night that celebrates diversity and empowers emerging LGBTQIA+ artists
Thursday 8 June
14:00
Long Table on Care and Solidarity, a long table on care and how it can risk individualising responsibility and eroding our commitment to social welfare. Table quests include Dr Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Professor Jen Harvie and Niall Morrissey.
19:30
Rosemary Lee-Moving Worlds-Dance on Film, a special screening celebrating Rosemary Lee’s unique contribution to dance film making over the last thirty years
Friday-Saturday 9-10 June (10 June online)
9:00-18:00
Mad Hearts: Queering Boundaries, a conference and festival on Arts and Mental Health
Friday 9 June
13:00 Online
Blind Date with Maya Rao & Lois Weaver, two feminist performers from New York and New Delhi, making art for almost half a century in their own corners of the world, meet each other for the first time for a blind date
20:00
Jelly Live, live performance of the new album by Andrew Poppy
Saturday 10 June A Day of Live Art
13:30- 17:00
Fragility, Festivals, Funding, and other F- words in Live Art, a long table and break-out sessions withfestival artists, directors, curators, and friends of Live Art
18:00
TransMission: SissyTV, a showing of a new performance by Nando Messias
19:00
Ascension, a new performance by Shaun Caton followed by a Live Art Social
Sunday 11 June
16:00-18:00
People’s Palace Projects book launch: RE-IMAGINING SHAKESPEARE EDUCATION, a launch of the book and a celebration Catherine Silverstone’s contribution to the chapter and a toast to her community as it brings this 2023 Peopling the Palaces festival to a close.
The Peopling the Palace(s) is curated by Lois Weaver and produced collaboratively by Drama at QMUL and Air Supply, QMUL’s platform for arts graduates.
ANNUAL CATHERINE SILVERSTONE LECTURE: CLARE HEMMINGS
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Lebanon to London: The Creative Journey
Amaal Fawzi (pictued above) from BA English with Creative Writing shares her journey in this incredible blog series.
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Subtexts: TransfixionsWed, 12 Apr 2023 18:00 – 20:00
The Octagon At Queen Mary University Of London 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS
Subtexts: Transfixions is an evening of poetry and literary performances by four mesmerising, artfully and politically charged writers, Hasti, So Mayer, Nat Raha, and Shola von Reinhold. Organised by the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Free and open to all.
Stars by Mojisola Adebayo13 April-4 May – ICA
A new afrofuturist music play about pleasure, desire and female orgasms. STARS is a hilarious and moving mix of celebratory Black queer empowerment and arousal. Performed by one woman and a live DJ, with projected animations, we join in an old woman’s search for her lost orgasm, spanning across outer space, with dustings of African mythology and folklore in an unabashedly queer, feminist rallying call.
‘The Shapes of the State in Early Modern Ireland’ Dr Neil Johnston18 April – Hybrid – 19:00
Speaker: Dr Neil Johnston, Head of Early Modern Records, The National Archives, UK.
Abstract: Royal government in Ireland expanded and evolved over the centuries, creating extensive paperwork in the course of its ordinary business. A significant amount of this survived until 1922, forming the core of the collection within the Public Record Office of Ireland. This paper will examine how the offices of state developed, charting their remit, function, and output. Focussing on the seventeenth century, it will consider the ways in which people in Ireland interacted with the state, what records emerged from these interactions, and what records survived down to the twentieth century. The destruction of the collection in 1922 created archival ghosts, where finding aids and publications give partial insights into what was available to researchers. By concentrating on the records of the central executive and the equity courts, this paper will endeavour to provide some insights into new or emerging research pathways for scholars of the period.
The event is free and all are welcome.
For further info please email IHS Secretary Dr Caoimhe Whelan 
Book launch: Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669
26 April 2023, 17:00-19:30 at The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0AB
Book launch and roundtable discussion with the author Nil Palabıyık (QMUL) and guest speakers Philip Alexander (Manchester), Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge) and Simon Mills (Newcastle).
Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern Europe. Telling the story of oriental studies through the annotations, study notes, and correspondence of European scholars, it demonstrates the central but often overlooked role that Turkish-language manuscripts played in the achievements of early orientalists. Dispersing the myths and misunderstandings found in previous scholarship, this book offers a fresh history of Turkish studies in Europe and new insights into how Renaissance intellectuals studied Arabic and Persian through contemporaneous Turkish sources.
