Viviana Iacob - global dis:connect

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Viviana Iacob

Viviana’s work explores the connection between non-democratic states and theatre in a global context before and after 1989. Her published work focusses on Cold War and non-aligned expertise networks and strategies of cultural diplomacy. She is a gd:c alumna, having received a fellowship in 2023. The project expanded her research interest into the long-term impact of Cold War dynamics on the international theatre community in the past decades.

Globalisation by any other name: international organisations, theatre and non-democratic regimes around 1989

Viviana returns to gd:c with a new Humboldt research fellowship to pursue an editorial project on illiberalism, theatre and globalisation. The volume Theatre and Illiberalism in a Global Context is the result of two consecutive workshops hosted at the CEU in Budapest and at gd:c in 2023. They were instrumental in developing her work on international organisations and alternative globalisation as well as founding a workgroup on theatre and illiberalism. The edited volume will be its first print project. Viviana’s contribution to this project consists of situating illiberalism on a continuum of illiberal engagements with globalisation.

Find out more about the workshop Viviana organized during her last fellowship.

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Click HERE to mail Viviana and HERE for Viviana’s latest work.