Cultural Performance in Transnational American Studies

这个网络探索了将表演研究方法整合到(跨国)美国研究领域的潜力。它探讨了如何通过对文化表演的研究来更充分地解决在跨国转向之后已经成为美国研究议程中心的问题，以及这些问题的结果是什么。基于文化是一种有形的、社区的和动态的事件而不是稳定的文本产品的思想，各个项目被安排在三个文化和空间上特定的集群中：城市、国家、全球-相对于全球流动的动态，定位文化表演的地方特殊性。首先，他们考察了“文化表演”作为文化表现的特定行为(如日常仪式、节日场合或戏剧活动)在跨国接触区的作用和影响，文化在这些场所相遇、相互搏斗，不可避免地就社会政治机构、代表性和权力问题进行谈判。其次，他们发展和评估“文化业绩”，将其作为研究跨国进程的方法论方法。总而言之，该网络仔细审查了将绩效研究方法更深入、更具反思性地整合到美国研究中的好处和局限性。通过汇聚来自美国、欧洲和亚洲的表演和美国研究学者，它构成了跨国合作的典范场所，并建立了跨学科边界的对话。

This network explores the potential of an integration of Performance Studies approaches into the field of (transnational) American Studies. It investigates how, which and with what outcome issues that, in the wake of the transnational turn, have become central to the American Studies agenda can be addressed more adequately by the study of `cultural performances.¿ Based on the idea of culture as a corporeal, communal, and dynamic event rather than a stable textual product, the individual projects¿ arranged in three culturally and spatially specific clusters: the city, the nation, the globe¿position the local particularities of cultural performance vis-à-vis the dynamics of global mobility. Firstly, they examine the role and impact of `cultural performances¿ as particular acts of cultural expression (like daily rituals, festive occasions, or theatrical events) in transnational contact zones¿sites in which cultures meet, grapple with each other, and inevitably negotiate questions of socio-political agency, representation, and power. Secondly, they develop and evaluate `cultural performance¿ as a methodological approach for the study of transnational processes. In sum, the network scrutinizes the benefits and limitations of a deeper and more reflective integration of a Performance Studies approach into American Studies. By bringing together scholars of Performance and American Studies from the US, Europe, and Asia, it constitutes an exemplary site of transnational collaboration and establishes a dialogue across disciplinary boundaries.