For Professors/Students
Interactive Role Play / Open and Close Communication
Actors brainstorm common conflict scenarios involving power dynamics within gender and or race relationships with participants, and then enact them in a role-play. Participants are invited to notice when communication seems to be shutting down and to call “freeze”. They then advise characters in the role-play about ways to open the communication.
Critical thinking about Gender, Race and Power
Actors perform monologues from our new work in progress "Difficult Conversations: On Race, Gender and Power" Then, using a framework of inquiry we call a “Power Lens” We examine personal, cultural, economic and political forces at play within race and gender issues.
The Power Lens as a Research Tool
Actors demonstrate ways in which research questions can be generated through the use of the power lens to facilitate penetrating, comprehensive research writing about how personal, economic, environmental and political power dynamics help create and can point to solutions to critical social issues.
Actors brainstorm common conflict scenarios involving power dynamics within gender and or race relationships with participants, and then enact them in a role-play. Participants are invited to notice when communication seems to be shutting down and to call “freeze”. They then advise characters in the role-play about ways to open the communication.
Critical thinking about Gender, Race and Power
Actors perform monologues from our new work in progress "Difficult Conversations: On Race, Gender and Power" Then, using a framework of inquiry we call a “Power Lens” We examine personal, cultural, economic and political forces at play within race and gender issues.
The Power Lens as a Research Tool
Actors demonstrate ways in which research questions can be generated through the use of the power lens to facilitate penetrating, comprehensive research writing about how personal, economic, environmental and political power dynamics help create and can point to solutions to critical social issues.
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