Theatre and Performance Studies News
Congratulations to Dr Goran Petrović-Lotina who has been awarded the WIRL-COFUND (GRP Global Governance) Fellowship
Goran Petrović-Lotina is a theorist and curator in visual and performing arts. He is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick's Institute of Advanced Study & Department for Theatre and Performance Studies, exploring the relationship between performance and populism; Visiting Professor at Sciences Po Paris Institute of Political Studies, where he launched a course on performance and politics; Founder and Co-curator of Fogo Island Film, a long-term project concerned with the diversity of relationships between nature and society, which takes place annually on Fogo Island in Canada.
Petrović-Lotina holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Ghent University and Master's Degrees in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po Paris: Institute of Political Studies and in Art History from the University of Belgrade. His research combines political philosophy and performance studies to examine the political dimensions of civic and artistic performances. His main field of inquiry is to explore how performance practices contribute to contesting dominant politics and invigorating democracy. He finds inspiration in theories of strategy, discourse, and hegemony, and has published around these topics in various journals and books.
Petrović-Lotina is a holder of IAS WIRL Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund fellowship grant (2019/21).