Theatre Arts & Performance Studies
Graduate Colloquium Series
2024-25 Graduate Colloquium/Events
This schedule is subject to change and additions.
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Friday, September 20: |
Professionalization Workshop: Academic Job Market 101 Lead by Prof. Iván Ramos |
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Friday, September 27: |
Professionalization Workshop: Writing the Cover Letter for Academic Jobs Lead by Prof. Iván Ramos |
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Friday, October 25: |
Guest Speaker: Katie Brewer Ball |
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Friday, November 8: |
Roundtable/conversation with Prof. Julia Jarcho about her new book Featuring guests: |
Past Graduate Colloquium
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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Brown Bag Lunch with Claire Bishop Wednesday, April 25 Becker Library Noon |
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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. |
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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. |