Professor David Peimer
About 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.
David’s lectures (201)
Date
Title
2 January
The Marx Brothers Part, 2
9 January
Amadeus, Part 1
11 January
Amadeus, Part 2
16 January
Descent into Authoritarianism: Cabaret, The Crucible, and Hamlet, Part 1
23 January
Descent into Authoritarianism: Cabaret, The Crucible, and Hamlet, Part 2
28 January
An Interview with Holocaust Survivor Joanna Millan
30 January
Holocaust Literature: Primo Levi and <i>If This is a Man</i>
6 February
The Theater of Sam Shepard and the American Dream
13 February
The Theater of David Mamet: Myths and Reality in Urban American Culture
20 February
Tennessee Williams and the Theater of Desire
27 February
The Theater of Eugene O'Neill
6 March
Walter Benjamin: A Renaissance Jewish Intellect of the 20th Century, Part 1
13 March
Walter Benjamin: A Renaissance Jewish Intellect of the 20th Century, Part 2
20 March
Viktor Frankl
10 April
The Circle of Evil: Wannsee Seen Through the Prism of the Film 'Conspiracy'
17 April
Hannah Arendt and the Banality of Evil
25 April
Elie Wiesel's 'Night'
25 April
Judge Dennis Davis and Professor David Peimer in Conversation with Elisha Wiesel
1 May
Paul Celan - The Jewish Poet of WWII
8 May
Fascination with Fascism: Then and Now
15 May
Representations of the Holocaust in Film, Part 1
22 May
Representations of the Holocaust in Film, Part 2
29 May
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Part 1
5 June
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Part 2
13 June
Revisiting the Zionism/Racism Debate in the Present Climate, Part 1
20 June
Revisiting the Zionism/Racism Debate in the Present Climate, Part 2
26 June
Jean Paul Sartre's book "The Anti-Semite and the Jew"
3 July
Albert Camus: His Life and Work (including his book, 'The Plague')
10 July
The UN Declaration of Human Rights: What Does it Say to Us Today?
17 July
Samuel Beckett's Life and Plays
24 July
Method Acting: Brando, James Dean, et al
31 July
The Beat Generation, Part 1: Kerouac and the Poets
14 August
Marcel Proust
21 August
Fritz Lang: Metropolis
24 August
The Beat Generation, Part 2: The Birth of Rock and Roll: Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Others
28 August
Fiddler on the Roof
4 September
The Poetry of the Psalms
11 September
Lord of the Flies
18 September
Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee: How His Post Apartheid Novel "Disgrace” Speaks to Us Today Globally
25 September
To Ban or Not to Ban: Literature, Law and Freedom of Speech
2 October
Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution: Why is it Important to Remember Gutenberg today?
10 October
The Merchant of Venice in Film, Part 1
17 October
Music Meets Modern Orthodoxy: A Tribute to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
23 October
The Merchant of Venice in Film, Part 2
30 October
Marlowe: The Jew of Malta
6 November
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott: The Book and the Film with Elizabeth Taylor
13 November
Othello and Caliban: Two Very Different Outsiders
20 November
The Crucible by Arthur Miller - The Group Mind: Medieval and Modern
27 November
The Remarkable Life and Poetry of John Donne
4 December
Cromwell: the Movie
11 December
Satire and Subversion, Part 1: Make em Laugh
18 December
Satire and Subversion, Part 2: Make em Laugh