Brazil Encuentro 2005: Performing Heritage Hemispheric Institute; Hemispheric Institute, Instituto Hemisférico, Instituto Hemisférico performance performance studies, estudios sobre performance, estudios de performance history, historia, história religion, religión, religião encuentro, conference, seminar, conferencia, seminario, encontro, congresso, seminário art, arte music, música dance, danza, dança theater, theatre, teatro photography, fotografía, fotografia performance art, arte de performance street performance, performance callejero, teatro callejero festival protest, protesta activism, activismo, ativismo Americas, Américas, Américas South America, América del Sur, América do Sul Latin America, Latinoamérica, América Latina Central America, Centroamérica North America, Norteamérica Brazil, Brasil English, Inglés, Inglês Since 2000, our Encuentros have been a meeting place for artists, scholars, students, and activists investigating the relation between performance and politics in the Americas. Gathering roughly 300 participants, each Encuentro is part academic conference, part performance festival, part workshop series, and wholly interdisciplinary: it is a concentrated space of experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, featuring lectures, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, exhibits, video screenings, work groups, and hands-on performance workshops. This next Encuentro on Performing Heritage will explore the production and circulation of notions of identity, traditions, authenticity, rights, cultural access and ownership in the age of globalization. These issues will be clustered under three large umbrella topics that will conceptually frame the keynotes, roundtables, performances, and work groups: 1) Intangible Heritage (the many embodied practices that define a sense of communal or national identity); 2) Cultural Agency (the many ways in which the arts make an intervention in social/political life), and 3) Arts and Markets (the circulation of arts through mass media, scholarship, government venues, etc…). Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, New York University 2004-08-01 DCMI: Collection Hemi: Event text/html http://hemi.es.its.nyu.edu/eng/seminar/brazil2005/ en http://hemi.nyu.edu/rights.html public