Theatre Arts & Performance Studies

Graduate Colloquium Series

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Graduate Colloquium Series

2024-25 Graduate Colloquium/Events

This schedule is subject to change and additions.

Date & Time	Title
Friday, September 20: 11:00am - 12:30pm Lyman 007 (lunch provided)	Professionalization Workshop: Academic Job Market 101 Lead by Prof. Iván Ramos
Friday, September 27: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Lyman 007 (lunch provided)	Professionalization Workshop: Writing the Cover Letter for Academic Jobs Lead by Prof. Iván Ramos
Friday, October 25: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Lyman 007 (snacks provided)	This Face is Not for Us: The Erotics of Escape and the Fantasy of the Glory Hole Guest Speaker: Katie Brewer Ball Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Theatre Department affiliated Faculty in Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies Wesleyan University Katie Brewer Ball (KBB) is a writer living on Nonotuck land in Western Massachusetts. They are Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Theater Department at Wesleyan University, and affiliated faculty in the Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. Brewer Ball earned their PhD in Performance Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Their research and teaching interests include theater, visual culture, Black and Indigenous thought, feminist theory, queer studies, and psychoanalysis. Their first book, The Only Way Out: The Racial & Sexual Performance of Escape, examines contemporary literature, theater, and performance works that deal with narratives of escape. They are also working on a second book project on art and science on the North Slope of Alaska. Their writing has been published in Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Artforum, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, Criticism, RECAPS, Little Joe, Bomb Magazine, Dirty Looks, ASAP/Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and by BOFFO and ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. In addition to teaching, Brewer Ball curates performance and art events, including the NYC performance salon, Adult Contemporary, and publishes creative nonfiction.
Friday, November 8: 1:00pm - 3:00pm Lyman 007 (snacks provided)	Roundtable/conversation with Prof. Julia Jarcho about her new book Throw Yourself Away: Writing and Masochism. Featuring guests: Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou Faculty, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis New York University Amber Musser Professor, English and Africana Studies CUNY Graduate Center

Past Graduate Colloquium

2023-2024

Date & Time	Title
September 30: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar: Academic Milestones
October 21: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Julius Fleming Department of English, University of Maryland
November 18: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Hentyle Yapp Theatre and Performance Studies, UC San Diego
February 10: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Hershini Bhana Young Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
February 24: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar: Conferences, Publications
April 21: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Tina Post Department of English, University of Chicago
May 5: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar

2022-23

Date & Time	Title
September 30: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar: Academic Milestones
October 21: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Julius Fleming Department of English, University of Maryland
November 18: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Hentyle Yapp Theatre and Performance Studies, UC San Diego
February 10: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Hershini Bhana Young Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
February 24: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar: Conferences, Publications
April 21: 11:30 - 1PM	Dr. Tina Post Department of English, University of Chicago
May 5: 11:30 - 1PM	Professionalization Seminar

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Fri, September 4 at 6pm at 50 John Street Studio	Graduate Student Salon and dinner. Reading: Bernstein and Ono.
Fri, September 18 at noon in Becker Library	Library orientation for theatre and performance studies. Lunch provided.
Fri, September 25 at noon in Becker Library	Professionalization session. Opening discussion about conferences in the field, publication, trajectory to the job market, etc. Lunch provided.
Fri, October 2 at noon in Granoff Studio 1	Michal Kobialka talk Of Memory and History: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Minima Moralia. Part of the Kantor Centenary at Brown. Please bring your lunch. Snacks provided.
Fri, October 2 at 5:30pm in Lyman 211	Michal Kobialka talk entitled Materialism of the Encounter
October 8-10	Conference "The Terms of Media," organized by field faculty member Chun. Schneider to present. Details TBA. (Recommended not required)
Fri, October 30 at 4pm in Lyman 211	Nick Salvato, Cornell University, talk entitled Performing Digital Digressiveness
December 4-5	Conference "Political Concepts," organized by field faculty Bewes, with Honig, Adir. Schneider to present. Details TBA. (Recommended)
Feb. 12 at noon, Becker Library	Patrick McKelvey, PhD, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Please bring your own lunch
Feb. 24 at noon, Becker Library	Sean Metzger, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and, Television. Talk entitled, Human Traffic, Seascapes, and Theatricality
Feb. 26 at noon, Becker Library	Jasmine Johnson, Brandeis University, in conjunction with residency of Urban Bush Women will give a talk entitled Body as Passport: Flight and Borders
March 10 at 5pm, Lyman 211	Amelia Jones, ROSKI School of Art and Design, will give a talk entitled Intimate Relations: What Makes Performance Queer? What Makes Queer Performative?
Thu, March 17 at noon, Becker Library	Soyoung Yoon, The New School
March 19-21	Recruitment weekend for new graduate student admits. Please be in town.
March 20, at 5pm, Becker Library	Key Text session led by Patricia Ybarra. Texts to be circulated in advance
Wed, March 23 at 5pm, Lyman 211	Talk by Allana Thain, McGill University, will give a talk entitled Fabulation and Futurity in the Anarchive.
April 8 at noon, Becker Library	Colleen Daniher, Presidential Diversity Post-Doctoral Fellow, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
April 22 at noon, Becker Library	Eleanor Skimin, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
April 29 at noon, Becker Library	Uri McMillan, UCLA, Department of English
May 6 at noon, Lyman 211	MA Presentations: Charlson, Huang, Kim, Santucci. Please bring your lunch.

Friday, October 4	L. H. Stallings (African American Studies, Georgetown University) "Creative Methodologies and Black Sexuality Studies"
Wednesday, October 16	Publications Workshop w/TAPS Faculty Becker Library, Noon - 1PM
Friday, October 25	Coleman Nye (Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University)
Friday, November 1	TAPS graduate student ASTR/ASA paper presentations Becker Library, 2-4PM
Friday, November 22	Julian Boal (Director, Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed)
Friday, February 21	Kandice Chuh (English, CUNY)
TBD	MA Presentations

Friday, October 12	Amber Musser: "Working Around the Incommensurate: Brown Jouissance and Kara Walker's A Subtlety"
Friday, November 30	Jordy Rosenberg: "Auto-Fiction or Auto-Eroticism?"
Friday. December 7	Robin Bernstein, "Performance, Prison, and the Criminalization of Black Freedom"
Friday, February 8	Juana Maria Rodriguez, "Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex"
February 28 - March 1	Grad recruitment
Friday, April 5	Jisha Menon, "Building Bangalore: Panic, Precarity, and Property"
Friday, May 10	MA Presentations

Fri, September 2 at 6pm at 50 John Street Studio	Salon with PhDs, MFAs and graduate faculty. Reading: TBA.
Fri, September 9 at noon in Becker Library / Lyman 212 (TBD)	Mel Chen (UC Berkeley). Graduate Colloquium Talk.
Fri, October 7 at noon / 4pm (TBD) in Becker Library	Soyica Colbert. Graduate Colloquium Talk.
Fri, October 17 at noon in Becker Library	PhD professionalization workshop.
Fri, November 18 at noon in Becker Library	POSTPONED PhD professionalization workshop.
Mon, March 6 at noon in Lyman 211	Amy Holzapfel, Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre at Williams College.
Thu, March 16, time TBD	Naomi Bragin, assistant professor in the school of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington Bothell.
Fri, April 24 at noon in Becker Library	Anusha Kedhar, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Dance, Colorado College