“Epistemic Injustice and Women’s Life Performance:
Staging hometactics as resistance and solidarity”
Date: June 30, 2026
Time: 15:30–17:00 (HKT)
Venue: B3-P-04
Speakers: Amanda Stuart Fisher (READER IN CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE AT ROYAL CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
Moderator: Prof. John Erni (RCCAPV, LCS, EdUHK)
Abstract:
The talk is part of prof. Fisher’s AHRC funded project – Credible Witnesses: Young people, life performance and testimonial injustice. It draws on young people, childism and epistemic injustice and connects with areas of linguistic justice.
About the Speaker:
Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher is a Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Her research engages with care and performance and with new ways of thinking about testimonial, verbatim and autobiographical theatre. She is the author of Performing the Testimonial: Rethinking verbatim dramaturgies and the co-editor of Performing Care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance (both published by MUP in 2020). Her research has been published in a range of international journals, including Performance Research, Studies in Theatre and Performance and TDR. In 2024 she was awarded AHRC funding to lead a two-year project, ‘Credible Witnesses: Young people. Life Performance, and Testimonial Injustice’, this project was developed with two project partners and young people from London and Oldham.