Past Convenors

Naomi Woo

Naomi is a pianist, conductor, and researcher, currently pursuing a PhD in musicology at Clare College as a Gates Cambridge scholar. Naomi also holds a BA in mathematics & philosophy from Yale University, and degrees in piano performance from the Yale School of Music and Université de Montréal...

Matthew Parvin

Matthew is a PhD candidate in English at Cambridge. He is writing on the work of Caryl Churchill, exploring the development of her craft and considering how she writes about economic systems. Matthew is also a published playwright, and his work has been performed at theatres across the UK. [...

Valerio Zanetti

Valerio is a Cambridge Trust and AHRC-funded History PhD candidate at St. John’s College, where his thesis investigates the emergence of female sport in early modern Europe. More generally, Valerio’s research explores embodied experiences of early modern people in connection with changes in...

Dr Clare Foster

Clare Foster (Creative Writing, Classics) was a screenwriter based in Los Angeles from 1990-2008, before returning to England to take the MA in Classical Reception Studies at UCL. She just completed an AHRC-funded Phd at Cambridge about Greek drama, theatre history, and the performance of tradition...

Michael Byrne

Michael Byrne (CMPCP, Faculty of Music) is a PhD candidate exploring creativity and ageing in the narrative works of The Royal Ballet. Using the reconstruction of Helpmann's 'Miracle in the Gorbals' and 'Adam Zero' as central case studies, his research analyses the embodied histories of senior...

Rachel Stroud

Rozelle Bosch

Rozelle Bosch (Faculty of Divinity)

Dr Jonas Tinius

Jonas Tinius (Division of Social Anthropology) is a PhD candidate working on contemporary artistic institutions in Germany with a focus on public theatres. He is editor of Anthropology, Theatre, and Performance: The Transformative Potential of Performance (with Alex Flynn, Palgrave 2015).

Dr Floris Schuiling

Floris Schuiling studied musicology (BA, MA) and philosophy (BA) at Utrecht University, after which he continued his research at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD with an ethnographic study of the improvising collective the Instant Composers Pool (ICP) Orchestra. Schuiling's...

Rin Ushiyama

Rin Ushiyama (Department of Sociology) is a PhD candidate working on cultural sociology, collective memory and social performance, with a specific focus on contemporary Japan. His dissertation examines how the Aum Affair, a series of crimes and terrorist attacks committed by the religious movement...

CIPN convenors

Naomi Woo

Matthew Parvin

Valerio Zanetti

Dr Clare Foster

Michael Byrne

Rachel Stroud

Rozelle Bosch

Dr Jonas Tinius

Dr Floris Schuiling

Rin Ushiyama

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