Professor David Peimer
Images from the West that Changed the World
Summary
This lecture will continue our discussion of a world dominated by visual imagery. Our imagination, memories, and conversations live in our minds through images; only occasionally do we recall the actual words. Many argue that history itself is often powerfully communicated through images; perhaps more so than words alone. In this presentation we will explore images from the West that changed our worldview.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.