Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
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 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 Featuring guests: |
Past Graduate Colloquium
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Friday, March 5 | Dr. Tiffany (Lethabo) King (Georgia State University) "Shoals, Erotic Ecologies and Experiments" In Conversation with Dr. Rebecca Schneider |
| Friday, March 26 | Dr. Victoria Fortuna (Reed College) "Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires" |
| 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 |
Meet and Greet with New PhD Students Wednesday, September 13 Becker Library 5:30PM - 7PM | Graduate Colloquium: Sarah Jane Cervenak "Black Gathering: Between Performativity and Ungiven Social Life" Friday, September 15 Room 211, Lyman Hall 4PM - 5:30PM |
The Activist Body Symposium Friday, September 29 The Granoff Center & Ashamu Dance Studio | Graduate Colloquium: Clare Croft "Unstable Hierarchies: Eisa Jocson, Jill Johnston, and Queer Dancing" Monday, October 2 Room 211, Lyman Hall Noon - 1:30PM |
Academics in the Wider World: Engagement and Issues in Political Life - Networking and Conferences Led by Jasmine Johnson Friday, October 27 Becker Library 11:30AM -1PM | Graduate Colloquium: C. Riley Snorton "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity" Friday, December 8 Room 211, Lyman Hall 11:30AM - 1PM |
Graduate Colloquium: Richard Gough "Certainties and Perplexities at the Confluence of Performance Research (without hyphen, colon, ampersand or slash) " Wednesday, February 21 Room 211, Lyman Hall 4:00PM | Academics in the Wider World: Engagement and Issues In Political Life - Networking and Conferences Led by Leon Hilton Friday, March 9 Becker Library 1:30PM -2:30PM
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Graduate Colloquium: Rizvana Bradley "Breakdown: Black Gestural Ecologies" Friday, April 20 Room 211, Lyman Hall Noon
| Brown Bag Lunch with Claire Bishop Wednesday, April 25 Becker Library Noon |
Graduate Colloquium: Kyla Tompkins "So Moved: Ferment, Jelly, Intoxication, Rot" Room 211, Lyman Hall Friday, April 27 Noon | MA Presentations Friday, May 4 Becker Library Noon - 2:00PM |
| 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.
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| 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 |
| 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. |