Katherine Zien
Biographic Data
| ID | 641003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Zien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Zien |
| SIGNATURE | ZIEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Processing Nigamon/Tunai
How can we listen to those whose traditional lands are being destroyed to support our “green energy” consumption? Nigamon/Tunai (2024) is a collaborative sonic performance about trans-Indigenous solidarities amid rare earth metal extraction that interweaves diverse forms of sound to engage forms of listening to ecological crisis
Notes from a constellation
Reading the TRC Summary Report Together
Keywords: Truth and Reconciliation, TRC Report, durational reading, collective reading, temporality, attention, responsibility
Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism
March 01 2019 Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism. By Patricia A.Ybarra. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018; 247 pp.; illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available. Katherine Zien Katherine Zien Katherine Zien is Associate Professor of theatre studies at McGill University. Zien’s monograph, Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Can…
Learning Curve
On the Bleeding Edge of the Real
About a quarter of the way into Teatro Travieso's Women of Ciudad Juarez, realism brushes up against a critical real. Or, rather, lacerates it. The performance opens with four female-identified act
Sounding sovereignty
The Panama Canal’s handover from US governance to Panamanian sovereignty concluded on 31 December 1999. ‘Patria Entera’ (loosely translated as ‘Whole Homeland’), a state-sponsored open-air concert, commemorated the handover and promulgated new readings of the Panama Canal Zone’s decolonisation process. Concert headliner Rubén Blades deployed repertory and symbolic strategies to counterbalance Panamanians’ ambivalence regarding the handover. ‘Patr…
Carving a Sonic Path through Stratified Spaces: The Michael Jackson Memorial Procession
Toward A Pedagogy of Redress
In text and performance, Melva Lowe de Goodin's play De/From Barbados a/to Panamá delivers a two-pronged intervention in narratives of West Indian history in Panama. While the play offers Panamanian audiences of West Indian descent syncretic representations of a unified ‘West Indian’ cultural and racial identity, De/From Barbados a/to Panamá also advocates to national audiences for the inclusion of West Indian presence and influences in Panamania…
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Toward A Pedagogy of Redress
In text and performance, Melva Lowe de Goodin's play De/From Barbados a/to Panamá delivers a two-pronged intervention in narratives of West Indian history in Panama. While the play offers Panamanian audiences of West Indian descent syncretic representations of a unified ‘West Indian’ cultural and racial identity, De/From Barbados a/to Panamá also advocates to national audiences for the inclusion of West Indian presence and influences in Panamania…
Carving a Sonic Path through Stratified Spaces: The Michael Jackson Memorial Procession
Sounding sovereignty
The Panama Canal’s handover from US governance to Panamanian sovereignty concluded on 31 December 1999. ‘Patria Entera’ (loosely translated as ‘Whole Homeland’), a state-sponsored open-air concert, commemorated the handover and promulgated new readings of the Panama Canal Zone’s decolonisation process. Concert headliner Rubén Blades deployed repertory and symbolic strategies to counterbalance Panamanians’ ambivalence regarding the handover. ‘Patr…
On the Bleeding Edge of the Real
About a quarter of the way into Teatro Travieso's Women of Ciudad Juarez, realism brushes up against a critical real. Or, rather, lacerates it. The performance opens with four female-identified act
Learning Curve
Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism
March 01 2019 Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism Latinx Theater in the Times of Neoliberalism. By Patricia A.Ybarra. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018; 247 pp.; illustrations. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, e-book available. Katherine Zien Katherine Zien Katherine Zien is Associate Professor of theatre studies at McGill University. Zien’s monograph, Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Can…
Reading the TRC Summary Report Together
Keywords: Truth and Reconciliation, TRC Report, durational reading, collective reading, temporality, attention, responsibility
Notes from a constellation
Processing Nigamon/Tunai
How can we listen to those whose traditional lands are being destroyed to support our “green energy” consumption? Nigamon/Tunai (2024) is a collaborative sonic performance about trans-Indigenous solidarities amid rare earth metal extraction that interweaves diverse forms of sound to engage forms of listening to ecological crisis
History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Cuban History and Society (2 works) · Diverse Musicological Studies (2 works)