Performing Science and Medicine (Online Lecture Series)
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 – Thursday, September 24, 2026 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET/GMT+1Online Event
Performing Science and Medicine is an online lecture series that treats performance as a mode of inquiry, an active method for thinking through the often interrelated fields of science and medicine. By inviting scholars, artists, theatre practitioners, and those working across these fields, the series aims to prompt cross-disciplinary discussion on performance as a productive framework for critically examining topics such as the relational dynamics between experimenters and research subjects, the entanglements of artistic and scientific experimentation, and the pedagogical and epistemic possibilities of theatre in medical education. The series is open to all humanities and performance studies scholars and students, as well as practitioners interested in the connections between performance and science and medicine. Here is the Zoom link to attend the lectures: https://bard.zoom.us/j/89442837009. No registration is required.
For more information on the lecture series, you can visit the dedicated page on our website: https://www.performingscienceandmedicine.com/lecture-series
Line-up of speakers:
October 27, 6–7:30 pm CET — Yelena Gluzman
The Dramaturgy of Personhood in Social Cognition Experiments
November 24, 6–7:30 pm CET — Dehlia Hannah
Performative Experiments
December 15, 6–7:30 pm CET — Ken Arnold, Sasha Bergstrom-Katz & Michele Luchetti
Performing Science and Medicine Meets the Medical Museion: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
January 19, 6–7:30 pm CET — Christopher Salter & Philippe Sormani
Design F(r)iction: Projects, Problems, and Practices
February 23, 6–7:30 pm CET — Laura Forlano
PerformingType 1 Diabetes Data
March 23, 12:00–1:30 pm CET — Jonathan Marshall (note: different time)
Charcot as Dramaturg: Relations between Charcot’s Practice & the Worlds of Performance, 1870s to the Present
April 20, 6–7:30 pm CET — Stephen Scott-Bottoms
When Prophecies Produce: On the Performativity of Prediction in Experimental Psychology
May 24, 6–7:30 pm CET — Hannah Star Rogers
Exending Art-Science-Technology Studies through Embodied Practice
Website: https://www.performingscienceandmedicine.com/lecture-series