Fellow in Focus: Dr Tania Cañas in conversation with Dr Erika Caterina Piazzoli

Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellow Dr Tania Cañas (University of Melbourne) in conversation with Dr Erika Caterina Piazzoli (School of Education).

Bio

Dr. Tania Cañas is an artist-based researcher based in Narrm (Melbourne) Australia on unceded Kulin Territory. Her work looks at the intersection of forced displacement, performance, borders and socially engaged practice. 

She is the former Artistic Director at RISE Refugee, the first organisation to be run, governed and controlled by the Refugee, Asylum Seeker and Ex-Detainee community. She was also the Artistic Lead at cohealth Arts Gen, a community arts and health organisation. Most recently, she founded Archiving the Present (AtP), a multi-site digital community archive project that develops alternative practices of remembering which challenge colonial aesthetics.

In 2023, She was named Global Connector by the International Network of Contemporary Performing Arts - in recognition of her leadership and commitment to increasing global awareness, inclusion, accessibility, and connectivity for the benefit of communities.

Tania co-edited an anthology of plays about Australia’s border regime ‘Staging Asylum, Again’ (2024) through Currency Press Australia.

She will begin a Banting postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. working with the Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador initiative in 2024.

Please let us know if you have any access requirements, such as ISL/English interpreting, so that we can facilitate you in attending this event. Contact: tlrh@tcd.ie