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Semester I

Tavia Nyong'o

"Performing the Nation: American Mongrels in the Circum-Atlantic
Theatre"

Friday, September 23
4:00 pm
Lyman Hall, Room 219

Tavia Nyong'o is currently an Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at NYU. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2003. His dissertation, Uncommon Memory: The Performance of Amalgamation in Early Black Political Culture, was the runner-up for the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Award of the American Studies Association. His research and teaching interests include the history of popular culture, black performance and cultural studies, and social and critical theory. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Journal of Criticism, Social Text, Theatre Journal, GLQ, andWomen and Performance. He has written on racial kitsch, on televised politics, on the racial unconscious of punk, and on African American historical memory. Courses he has taught include The Black Atlantic, The History of the Body, Documenting Performance, and Performance and Social Theory.

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Elin Diamond

Rutgers University

"The Uses of Primitivism in Brecht and Hurston"

This public lecture is co-sponsored with the German Department and

The College Art Council

 

Thursday, October 27th

4:00 pm

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Also, a session with Professor Diamond and graduate students, Friday, October 28th, 4-6 in Lyman HalL - Rm 007.

Elin Diamond is Professor of English at Rutgers University. She is the author of UNMAKING MIMESIS: ESSAYS ON FEMINISM AND THEATER (Routledge, 1997) and PINTER'S COMIC PLAY (Bucknell 1985), and Editor of PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLITICS (Routledge, 1996). Her essays on performance and feminist theory have appeared in THEATRE JOURNAL, ELH, DISCOURSE, TDR, MODERN DRAMA, KENYON REVIEW, CAHIERS RENAUD-BARRAULT, ART AND CINEMA, MASKA, and in anthologies in the USA, Europe, and India. She is currently writing a book on Modernism and Performance.

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Shannon Jackson

University of California at Berkeley

Professor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies

Professor of Rhetoric

"Infrastructural Imagination, Performance, and the Humanities"

Friday, November 18

4 - 6 pm.

219 Lyman Hall

Shannon Jackson is Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. Her research includes 20th century art movements and critical theory; local culture and intercultural citizenship in turn-of-the-century United States; history and theory of theatre and performance art; the history and theory of disciplines, the humanities, and the modern university; the study and practice of oral performance, adaptation, and oral narrative. She is the author of Professing Performance: Theatre in the Academy from Philology to Performativity (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, December 2004) and Lines of Activity: Performance, Historiography, and Hull-House Domesticity, (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2000) as well as many celebrated essays and articles in theatre studies, performance studies, visual studies, gender studies, and communication studies.

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Semester II

Ned Quist

Music Librarian
University Library - Scholarly Resources

February 10, 2006

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4pm in Lyman 219

Mr. Quisit, who has been so helpful to us these past two years in Becker Library, will give a workshop for faculty and grad students on using the internet for research.

You are all most welcome.

 

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