BROWN
Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Colloquium Series 2007-2008
Colloquium Schedule and Related Events, Spring 2008:
All events in Lyman Hall 219 unless otherwise stated
*January 21-Feb. 3rd. Liz Lerman Residency. Events of particular interest include:
•January 31st: Liz Lerman Keynote Speech & Reception: List Art Center, 64 College Street (Brown Campus) Keynote 5-6:30PM, Reception 6:30-7:30PM
• Friday, February 1 Open Workshop: Interfaith Movement Workshop with Liz Lerman, Brown RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street (Brown Campus) 5:30-7:30PM (we will end the session so that people may attend).
•Sunday, February 3 613 Radical Acts of Prayer Ashamu Dance Studio at Brown University 2-3PM and 4-5PM
Tickets: $10 (Students $7)January 25: Organization and greetings. Informal statements on current projects and the challenges and opportunities facing the field of Theatre/Performance Studies.
February 1 Bettina Brandl-Risi, Max Cade Visiting Professor (in German Dept. and Cogut Center), Free University of Berlin Univ. (Research Group on Cultures of Performance): " ‘this is my theory-friendly everyday life. It is intense and it is
gradually becoming capable of theory! ... and not that art shit or shit
like that!’ – René Pollesch and the Politics of Virtuosity on German Stages”
4:00, rm 007. Lyman Hall.February 8: Patricia Ybarra, speaking on her current research and writing.
February 29: Jisha Menon, University of British Columbia (English): Haunted Paradise: Performance in the Kashmir Valley
March 7: Christopher Whitmore, Post-Doc Fellow for the Joukowsky Institute for Archeology and the Ancient World at Brown: Located Media and the Question of Manifestation in Archaeology.
March 14: Professional Development Seminar or Reception for potential graduate students.March 21: Open (day before spring recess)
(March 28: Spring recess)
April 4: Paige McGinley and/or Christine Evans (tentative pending availabilities).
*April 9, Christopher Bigsby, author of a highly regarded 3 vol. history of American Theatre, speaking at John Hay Library (time TBA)April 9: 3-5:30: Jill Lane, NYU, will be the guest speaker in Patricia Ybarra’s TSDA1240 class.
April 11: I Made Bandem, Former Director of the Conservatory Schools of Bali and Jogjakarta, now visiting Prof. at Holy Cross Univ. (date tentative).
April 18 Daphne Brooks, Duke University (English) 4:00 Rm 219. Topic to be Announced.
April 25 Presentations by 2nd year students
May 2 (Alternate date for presentations by 2nd year students/presentations by students completing their dissertations)
Revised Colloquium Schedule, Fall, 2007
9/7/07 1:00, Strasberg Studio
Performance and Discussion by Dov Weinstein and Tiny Ninja Theatre: Macbeth9/14/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Meet to organize semester and deal with any issues regarding classes, etc. Rebecca will update us on changes in Lyman, and hopefully Ned Quist will present some internet and library research tips.9/21/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Thomas DeFrantz, dance scholar and choreographer from MIT will be visiting and presenting “Dance Studies and Disciplinarity: Contingencies of Beauty.”9/28/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Paula Richman, author of Many Ramayanas and Questioning Ramayanas: The Ramayana in Trinidad; John Emigh “Text and Contexts of The Prahlada Nataka of Orissa.” (optional session for Theatre and Performance Studies Grad Students).
10/5/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
An informal session among the grad students; the “professional development session” on the 26th will, at least in part, respond to the concerns and interests emerging from this meeting.10/12/07 4: 00, Kebab and Curry Restaurant
Informal eating and greeting session with available members of the field faculty and others, Kebab and Curry Restaurant, Thayer St..10/19/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
“Key Text” Session for new students on Ethnography and Performance Studies, led by our postdoc scholar in residence, Meida McNeal. The essay to be discussed are by Dwight Conquergood and Soyini Madison. Other grad students are encouraged to attend; a copy of the readings is in Becker Library of Lyman Hall.10/26/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Professional development seminar to be focused on issues of concern to the current graduate cohort.11/2/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Rose Subotnik of the Music Dept. to speak or issues related to her work with musical theatre: “Some Roads Not Taken: Finian's Rainbow, No Strings, and American Racial Ideals.”11/8-11/07
No activities scheduled. PSi Conference at NYU11/15-18/07
No activities scheduled. ASTR Conference in Phoenix, AZ11/30/07 4: 00, Ashamu Dance Studio
Joseph Roach and dancer Emily Coates, Yale University, will discuss and demonstrate issues and practices related to Prof. Roach’s new book, It and the World Performance Project.12/7/07 4: 00, Lyman 219
Informal session among grad students to share research issues, trade papers, and/or discuss issues of common concern.