Event overview
The Performance Research Forum hosts a range of events, talks and presentations by established and early-career researchers and practitioners in theatre and performance.
Pamela Jikiemi: (Un)Equal Opportunities? Teaching to Redress: Actor Training and Race in Great Britain 1975–2023
In June 2020, the public response to George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter movement generated a large number of complaints from students from across the four nations. These students mobilised various campaigns directed towards the senior leadership of their training institutions. The students were asking for institutional issues concerning racism and other inappropriate behaviours to be acknowledged and addressed. Many students and alums were forthright in highlighting the discriminatory practices in actor training, the pedagogy and the curriculum they had not only witnessed but experienced in their training.
For this event, Pamela Jikiemi will focus on conservatoire actor training in Higher Education and the representation of Black and Global Majority teaching practitioners and students in the conservatoire. Drawing on her professional experience and empirical evidence, Jikiemi, who is herself a Black and Global Majority woman, recognises how actor training may often put Black and Global Majority teaching staff and students at a disadvantage.
Pamela Jikiemi is Head of Film, TV, and Audio at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has worked creatively and extensively as an actor (television, radio, film, theatre and voiceover, nationally and internationally) in Senior Management and as Department Head/Unit Leader/Visiting Lecturer in Broadcast, VFX/Design Post Production, Digital Media, actor training, theatre and screen. In 2023, Pamela won Best Film in the Education category of the IRIS Prize, the ‘Oscars’ of the LGBTQ+ short film world for ‘The Fight in the Dog’, written by Katie Bonna. Pamela Jikiemi will present an aspect of her current PhD research on decolonising actor training in the UK conservatoire.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Feb 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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