'Dance, National Identity and Multiculturalism: A Comparison between Germany and Britain'
- When?
- Monday 29 March 2004, 17:00 to 18:30
- Where?
- 19AD04
- Open to:
- Staff, Students, Public
- Speaker:
- Dr Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers
Dr Patricia Alleyne-Dettmers (Hamburg University)
Patricia Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers (BA. Trinidad & Tobago, MA, MSc, Ph.D., USA) is a linguistic anthropologist, who has studied and researched Trinidadian Carnival for more than the last ten years (and continues to research Carnival in Britain) from the inside perspective of the native masquerader, and from the outside as an anthropologist. She was commissioned by the Arts Council of England, in collaboration with Roehampton Institute, to compile and develop the first National Carnival Database for British Carnivalists. She was also appointed Principal Consultant to the Arts Council for the development and implementation of National Strategy & Arts Policy (with specific reference to Carnival & Carnival Arts in Britain) and acted as an honorary member of the Notting Hill Carnival Advisory & Assessment Committee. She is an honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at University College London. She is a foundation member of the Carnival in Arts Education Steering Committee (Goldsmith's College) and recently completed a successful Rockefeller Foundation, Post Doctoral Research Residency, at the Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago.
Currently she lectures on a variety of courses about the Caribbean and on Postcolonialism at the University of Hamburg. She also teaches Academic Writing in English on the Masters of International Business Administration (MIBA) Programme at the Hamburg School of Economics and Politics and is involved in the German interactive multi-media project for Carnival Arts including the development of a documentary drama on Trinidadian Carnival. She has worked along with Hajusom Theater Company and has successfully developed and produced an International Young Performers festival in Hamburg, using Trinidadian Carnival as its centrepiece.
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