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ASTR/TLA 2012
November 1 – 4, 2012
Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel – Nashville, TN
“Theatrical Histories” – Conference Program
Patrick Anderson and Patricia Ybarra, Conference Co-Chairs
Download the conference program! (Please note: large file.)
Program Front Matter (Download here.)
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- 2012 Conference Committee
- Welcome from Rhonda Blair, ASTR President
- Welcome from Conference Co-Chairs
Program At-A-Glance
End Matter (Download here.)
- Hotel Floorplans
- Exhibit Hall Map
- Conference Exhibitors and Advertisers
- Back Cover
As you know, working sessions at the ASTR conference can take a wide range of formats and structures. For our Nashville meeting, we have asked working session conveners to provide guidelines for those who plan to attend their sessions as audience members in those cases where they have a particular structure in mind. Please review the guidelines linked under each session as you plan your conference itinerary and in advance of arriving in Nashville.
Thursday, November 1, 2012 - Click here to download the Thursday Schedule.
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| 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting
Suite 7, Floor 7
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| 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
Performance Workshop: Creative Hosting: A Strategy for Public Engagement (click the title for more information)
Davidson A, Floor 2 |
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| 12:30 - 3 p.m. |
Split Britches Rehearsal (Closed)
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2 |
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| 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. |
Registration
Capitol Ballroom Foyer, Floor 2 |
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| 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. |
Welcome to the Nashville Scene: Welcome and Introduction by Conference Organizers and Panel of Nashville Artists and Scholars
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2 |
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| 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. |
Plenary 1: Deep(er) Histories
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2 |
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| 7:00 - 7:45 p.m. |
Opening Performance - Split Britches
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
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| 7:45 - 9 p.m. |
Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
Capitol Ballroom 1 and 2, Floor 2 |
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Friday, November 2, 2012 - Click here to download the Friday schedule.
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| 7:15 - 8:15 a.m. |
Graduate Mentor Meeting: Meet Your Mentor
Davidson A, Floor 2 |
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| 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Registration Desk Open
Capitol Ballroom Foyer, Floor 2 |
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| 8 - 10 a.m. |
Coffee / Breakfast Breads
Exhibit Hall |
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| 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Exhibit Hall Open (closed 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.)
Capitol Ballroom 1 and 2, Floor 2
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| 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Plenary 2: Tricky Memory
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2 |
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| 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Plenary 3: Subject to History
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
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| 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
ASTR/TLA Conference 2012 Career Sessions/Box Lunch (Click the links below to view descriptions.)
- CS1 - Publish, Don't Perish: Articles - Davidson A, Floor 2
- CS2 - Publish, Don't Perish: Books - Davidson B, Floor 2
- CS3 - Under Pressure: Claiming Success and Sanity in Your Pre-Tenure Years - Suite 4A, Floor 4
- CS4 - Surviving and Thriving During the Dissertation - Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
- CS5 - Navigating the Changing Job Market: Beyond US Borders - Suite 4B, Floor 4
- CS6 - Navigating the Changing Job Market: Academic Alternatives - Suite 5A, Floor 5
- CS7 - Pedagogical Predicaments: Meeting the Challenge of 21st-Century Teaching - Suite 5B, Floor 5
- CS8 - Show Me the Money: Raising Funds for Individual Research and Program Transformation - Suite 7A, Floor 7
- CS9 - Size Matters: Unique Challenges and Opportunities in Small Liberal Arts Colleges - Suite 7B, Floor 7
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| 2 - 4 p.m. |
Working Sessions 1 - WS (1) - WS (8) (Click the links below for working session descriptions.)
Click here to view the names of panelists in the working sessions during this time period.
- WS (1): Ecology and/of/in Performance Working Group: Trans-cultural, Trans-national, Trans-species Histories in Performance - Suite 4A, Floor 4
- WS (2): Staging Time, Timing History - Suite 4B, Floor 4
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (3): Everyday Life: Histories of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated - Davidson A, Floor 2
- WS (4): Indigenous Performance Research in the Americas: Indigenous Histories and the Performance of Reconciliation - Suite 5B, Floor 5
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (5): What the Middle Means: Histories of Medieval Performance Culture - Suite 7A, Floor 7
- WS (6): Contaminating Bodies, Infectious Spectacles, Troubling Histories: Women on Performative Display - Suite 7B, Floor 7
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (7): Blurring the Lines: Scholarship, Practice, and Professional Preparation - Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
- WS (8): Working between Theatre Studies and Dance Studies - Suite 5A, Floor 5
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| 3 - 4:30 p.m. |
TLA Tour - Hatch Show Print (limit 20)
Offsite
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| 4:15 - 6:15 p.m. |
Plenary 4: Performing State History
Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
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| 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. |
Working Sessions 2 - WS (9) - WS (17) (Click the links below for working session descriptions.)
Click here to view the names of panelists in the working sessions during this time period.
- WS (9): Eighteenth Century Theatrical Histories, or, the Long, the Deep, and the Wide - Suite 4A, Floor 4
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (10): Objects and Things: The Histories of Theatrical Actants - Davidson A, Floor 2
- WS (11): Performing War: Theatrical Histories - Suite 5A, Floor 5
- WS (12): “Hear/Say”: Aural and Oral Histories of Theatre and Performance - Suite 4B, Floor 4
- WS (13): Performance and (Bio)politics: From Liveness to Life - Suite 7A, Floor 7
- WS (14): Embodied Archives: Movement, Memory, and Historiographies of the Body - Suite 7B, Floor 7
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (15): Sense, Affect, and Being Singular Plural - Davidson B, Floor 2
- WS (16): (Re)Positioning Latin America: Theatrical Histories and Cartographies of Power - Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
- WS (17): Digital Humanities and the Performing Arts - Suite 5B, Floor 5
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Saturday, November 3, 2012 - Click here to download the Saturday schedule.
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| 7:15 - 8:15 a.m. |
De-mystifying ASTR: How and Why We Do What We Do, and How You Can Get Involved
Davidson A, Floor 2
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| 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Registration Desk Open
Capitol Ballroom Foyer
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| 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. |
Exhibit Hall Open (closed, 12:30 - 2:30 p.m.)
Capitol Ballroom 1, Floor 2
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| 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Working Sessions 3 - WS (18) - WS (26) (Click the links below for working session descriptions.)
Click here to view the names of panelists in the working sessions during this time period.
Addendum to WS (23): Performing Age - Added Panelist
Victoria Swanson, University of Tennesee Knoxville: Subjectivity and the Aged Body in Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Catastrophe
- WS (18): Methods and Approaches: Cognitive Science in Theatre, Dance, and Performance - Suite 4A, Floor 4
- WS (19): Undercover: New Approaches to Plays from the Spanish Golden Age through Hidden Histories of Women and Native Americans - Davidson A, Floor 2
The convener has provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (20): Ephemerality/Influence: Genealogies of Alternative British Theatre - Davidson B, Floor 2
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (21): Digital Histories and Taxonomic Shifts - Suite 5A, Floor 5
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (22): “Experiments in Democracy”: Performing an Interracial and Multicultural America, 1900-1950 - Suite 5B, Floor 5
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (23): Performing Age - Suite 6A, Floor 6
- WS (24): If Not Us, Who? If Not Now, When? Embodiment, Engagement, and the Pedagogy of Performance - Suite 6B, Floor 6
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (25): Interrogating the Romance of Community Theater and Performance - Suite 4B, Floor 4
- WS (26): Theatre Survey Article Workshop: Translation and Performance - Capitol Ballroom 3 and 4, Floor 2
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| 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Plenary 5: TLA at 75: Collecting the Future by Mediating the Past |
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| 12:45 - 2:45 p.m. |
Awards Luncheon and ASTR Annual Meeting
Capitol Ballroom 2, 3 and 4, Floor 2
ASTR Annual Meeting Agenda
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| 3 - 5 p.m. |
Plenary 6: Theatrical Pasts and Theatricals Past
Capitol Ballroom 2, 3 and 4, Floor 2
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| 5:15 - 8 p.m. |
Working Sessions 4 - WS (27) - WS (35) (Click the links below for working session descriptions.)
Click here to view the names of panelists in the working sessions during this time period.
- WS (27): Migration and Performance: Questions of Methodology and Historiography - Suite 4A, Floor 4
- WS (28): Performance as Research and Practice-Based Research: Historic, Current and Forthcoming - Suite 4B, Floor 4
- WS (29): Shakespearean Performance Research Group - Davidson A, Floor 2
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (30): Traumatic Structures - Suite 5A, Floor 5
- WS (31): Unsafe Realism 2.0: Rethinking Feminist Realisms - Suite 5B, Floor 5
- WS (32): Culture, Citizenship, and Mass Spectacle - Davidson B, Floor 2
- WS (33): Global Theatre Histories - Exploring a New Research Paradigm - Suite 6B, Floor 6
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (34): Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter - Suite 6A, Floor 6
The conveners have provided special instructions for this session. View them here.
- WS (35): Special Session on New Paradigms in Graduate Education - “Heading Back to the Future: Theatre Histories, Graduate Training, and New Paradigms in Graduate Education” - Capitol Ballroom 2, 3 and 4, Floor 2
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Cambridge University Press Reception
Capitol Ballroom Foyer and Legislative Terrace
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9 - 10 p.m.
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Graduate Student Caucus Meeting
Davidson A, Floor 2 |
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| 10 - 11 p.m. |
President's Reception for Emerging Scholars |
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Pinnacle - Revolving Rooftop |
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Sunday, November 4, 2012 - Click here to download the Sunday schedule.
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| 8 - 10 a.m. |
Coffee/Breakfast Breads |
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Capitol Ballroom 1 and 2, Floor 2 |
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| 8:30 - 9:45 a.m. |
Supporting Academic Libararies
Davidson Room, Floor 2 |
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| 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. |
"State of the Fields" Long Table
Curated by Lois Weaver, University of Queen Mary, London |
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Conference Ends |
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