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“History as Art, or Vice-Versa” – Bernice Ong
Mike Pearson, Professor Emeritus of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University and Researcher for the Cardiff Race Riots series, walks us back to 1919 ...

“In Search of Lost Places (and Their Histories): Situating and Performing the 1919 Cardiff Race Riots with a Digital Graphic Novel” – Danny Steur
How are histories usually told? Though I am no student of history, I would say this most commonly occurs by chronicling the actions of history’s greatest ...

“Retelling of History through Performance” – Elena Roznovan
Through images and dramaturgy of text, Mike Pearson transports the audience’s imagination to the events of the Cardiff Race Riots of 1919. He describes in ...

“Cardiff 1919 Riots Redrawn: Morphing Newspapers into Lively Knowledge” – Eleonora Stacchioti
In the last session organized by the research group Transmission in Motion, we had the pleasure to delve into the work of Mike Pearson, Professor in ...

“Retraced, Redrawn, Retold” – Floor Mijland
With his steady narration, Mike Pearson (Professor Emeritus of Performance Studies at Aberystwyth University) transports us back in time, to the streets of ...
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Meet the Makers: The “curators special” with Paulien Dresscher, Bogomir Doringer, and Angelique Spaninks
