Event Date and Time:
May 4, 2004 – May 5, 2004
5:00pm-8:00pm, 10:00am-5:10pm
Location:
Performance Studies Studio
At this 2-day conference, graduating M.A. students will present their final project work.
Photo: Anurima Banerji & Ilaria Distante, “An Intimate Ethnography”
Tuesday, May 4th, 5-8 PM
5:00 —5:35 PM Virtually (dis)appearing
1. Ashley Smith, “technosex/technodeath”
2. Joe Shahadi, “Burn: The Radical Disappearance of Kathy Change”
3. Tracy Hazas, “Witnessing the Event: Narrative and Testimony in Performance”
Respondent: Danielle Goldman
5:45 —6:40 PM Embodiment and its discontents
1. Christine Witmer, “Borderline”
2. Michael Wang, “Blurry Vision: The Address of the Type in the Works of Dennis Cooper”
3. Atsuko Miyawaki, “Butoh: Body beyond Nation”
4. Hekate (Megan Auster-Rosen, Olga Sasplugas & Mila Aponte-Gonzalez) “Can’t Quite”
Respondent: Roman Paska
6:40 —7:00 Break
7:00 —8:00 PM Imaging Women, Imagining Women: Performing Gender
1. Martha Pitts and Courtney Cauthon, "Dora"
2. Amanda Baker-Vande Brake “Documenting Memory: Patricia Cronin’s Memorial to a Marriage and its Formal Hybridity”
3. Rose Yndigoyen, “The Fictions of Babel : The Performativity of Power Femme Fan Fiction”
4. YoungSoon Kim, “Military Sexual Slaves and Their Memories”
5. Letitia Guillory, “Deconstructing Mae”
Respondent: Tavia Nyong’o
Wednesday, May 5th 10:00 AM - 5:10 PM
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM The Ethnographic Eye and the Ethnographic I
1. Wabei Siyolwe, "digital diary #2"
2. Crystal Davis, “Keeping on Your Toes: An Inquiry into Phenomenology and Ethnographic Methodology.”
3. Lucian Gomoll, “Objects of Cultural Dis/order: Articulating Curiosities & Engaging Histories at the Freakatorium”
4. Yoona Kang, “Goodbye 'Spring in My Hometown'”
5. Anurima Banerji & Ilaria Distante, “An Intimate Ethnography”
Respondent: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
11:10 AM —11:45 AM Cultural Fetish, Commodity Fetish
1. Lián A. Sifuentes, “Performing the Red Carpet: The Production of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum”
2. Graham Beck, “sneaks: the mistory”
3. Maya Winfrey, “Black Is, Asian Ain’t: Selling Blackness and Shaping the Asian in Iona Rozeal Brown’s a3”
Respondent: Barbara Browning
11:45 —1:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:00 —1:55 PM Race, Melancholia, & Abjection
1. Iily Chang, “The Papermoon Project”
2. Tina Majkowski, “An Unexpected Sound: Thinking Native American Powwow Performance Through Abjection, Melancholic Resistance and the Aesthetics of Plentitude”
3. Maki Sato, "Fear Factor: Ganguro Girls and Polluted Girls in Japan"
4. Raquel Gutierrez, “participating without belonging: the politics of visibility in tony gleaton's photography”
5. Jo-Anne Suriel, "The Myth of the Indio: Dominican Racial Identity"
Respondent: José Muñoz
2:05 —3:00 PM Punishment, Performance & the Law
1. karen g. williams, “remembering a blueprint of the bluegoose”
2. Jess Applebaum, “the courtroom, the press room, the theatre: sophie treadwell's journey towards Machinal, my journey towards academia”
3. Josh Chambers-Letson, “The Epistemology of Bill Rehnquist’s Closet”
4. Amina Henry, "From Eye to I: An Ethnography of a Prison Theater Community"
5. Nina Mankin, “Performing The Copyright Debate”
Respondent: Ann Pellegrini
3:00—3:20 PM TEA BREAK
3:20 —4:15 PM Choreographing Space
1. Fiona Sze, “New Night•New Day: The Space of Death”
2. Angeline Shaka, “The Art of Control: Joseph Pilates and the Complications of Control in ‘Contrology’”
3. Chi Young Lee, “Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater As a Theatre Art”
4. Winnie Harrington, “Performance of the Flesh”
5. Rora Paek, “Robert Wilson’s Theatrical Image and the World of Fantasy”
Respondent: André Lepecki
4:25 PM —5:10 PM Performing Acts/Activism
1. Laura Winton, “Words Got Me the Wound and Will Get Me Well: Breaking the Spell of the Spectacle“
2. Jeanne Vaccaro, “Give Me An F: Radical Cheerleading and Feminist Performance”
3. Steve Luber, “The Kong Complex: Urban Exploration and the New Manifest Destiny”
4. Shayoni Mitra, “Badal Sircar: Scripting a movement”
Respondent: Diana Taylor
