{"id":232,"date":"2016-07-07T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2020-12-29T19:32:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:32:54","slug":"academic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/academic\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Power of Autobiography, TEDxHampshire, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Djola Branner and the Power of Autobiography\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xg8K7av5j68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">This talk chronicles <strong>Branner&#8217;s<\/strong> life long obsession with first-person narratives, and the surprising revelation that writing and performing autobiographical material affords tremendous personal freedom and cultural agency. <strong>Branner&#8217;s<\/strong> professional life has been defined by a passion for scripting, staging, and performing original drama, and that passion has defined his approach to teaching. A graduate of San Francisco State University, where he earned an M.A. in Creative Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, and The New School for Drama\/Actors Studio Drama School where he earned an M.F.A. in Theatre. <strong>Branner<\/strong> served as Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts 2012-2015, and is currently a full Professor of Theatre at Hampshire College, where he teaches a broad range of theatre courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nThe Inauguration of Hampshire College President Jonathan Lash, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hampshire College \u2022 Inauguration of Jonathan Lash \u2022 Djola Branner\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7tu_9uzsunQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Djola Branner<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Theatre and incoming Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts, welcomes Jonathan Lash on behalf of the faculty.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n2011 Commencement Faculty Toast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hampshire College \u2022 2011 Commencement \u2022 Djola Branner\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V-M1rh5oYM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor of Theatre <strong>Djola Branner<\/strong> delivers the faculty toast to the graduates at Hampshire College&#8217;s 2011 Commencement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power of Autobiography, TEDxHampshire, 2013 This talk chronicles Branner&#8217;s life long obsession with first-person narratives, and the surprising revelation that writing and performing autobiographical material affords tremendous personal freedom and cultural agency. Branner&#8217;s professional life has been defined by a passion for scripting, staging, and performing original drama, and that passion has defined his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/dbranner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}