Professor David Peimer
Origins and Ramifications of Woke and Cancel Culture
Summary
The words ‘woke’ and ‘cancel’ culture have captured the minds of a generation. We will look at the origins and ramifications of the words in today’s rapidly shifting world, and ask: have the notions become darkly Orwellian or do they ‘wake’ us up?
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.