| Wednesday, November 16 |
|
|
| 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
|
Pre-Conference Workshop
Research Mentoring: A Workshop for Faculty Mentors of PhDs
Workshop Leader: Tracy Davis, Northwestern University
|
| |
|
|
| Thursday, November 17 |
|
|
| 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
|
ASTR Executive Committee Meeting (not open to public) |
| |
|
|
| 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
|
Pre-Conference Workshop
Research Mentoring: A Workshop for Faculty Mentors of PhDs
Workshop Leader: Tracy Davis, Northwestern University |
| |
|
|
| 1:00 p.m. - 6:3o p.m. |
|
Exhibitor Set-Up |
| |
|
|
| 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
|
Registration Desk Open |
| |
|
|
| 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
|
Welcome |
| |
|
Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist University |
| |
|
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Plenary 1: Acting Works |
| |
|
Wendy Arons, Carnegie Mellon University
“The Circulation of Female Celebrity and Notoriety in Eighteenth-Century German Theater Criticism” |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico
“Toward a History of Casting” |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Heather Nathans, University of Maryland
“‘They Wouldn't Look Jewish At All’: Jewish Actor-Managers and Gentile Audiences in Antebellum American Theatre” |
| |
|
|
| 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. |
|
President’s Address: How Much is a Loaf of Bread? |
| |
|
Rhonda Blair, ASTR President, Southern Methodist University |
| |
|
|
| 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. |
|
Opening Reception |
| |
|
Book Exhibit |
| |
|
back to top |
| |
|
|
Friday,
November 18 |
|
|
| 7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. |
|
American Theatre Archive Project (ATAP) Orientation |
| |
|
ATAP is an ASTR initiative that supports theatre makers in archiving records of their work for the benefit of artists, scholars, patrons, and the public. This orientation will give you everything you need to know to join or establish a project team in your area.
All are welcome to attend! |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Convenors: Susan Brady, Yale University; Ken Cerniglia, Dramaturg and Literary Manager, Disney Theatrical Group |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Meet Your Mentor |
| |
|
Attendees and their pre-assigned mentors meet to talk about the conference and ASTR. |
| |
|
|
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
|
Registration Desk Open |
| |
|
|
| 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
|
Book Exhibit (closed 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. for lunch) |
| |
|
|
| 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
|
Plenary 2: Public Spheres
|
| |
|
Leo Cabranes Grant, University of California Santa Barbara
“Dramaturgies of Wealth: Performing the encomienda in Colonial Mexico City” |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Catherine Cole, University of California Berkeley
“Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy as Neoliberal Kaleidoscope” |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Jeffrey Leichman, Sarah Lawrence College
“Impostors: The Political Economics of Performance in Rousseau’s Allegory of the Montagnons” |
| |
|
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
|
Plenary 3: Economies of Affect
|
| |
|
Patrick Anderson, University of California San Diego
“Economizing Loss: Performance, Affect, and Negative Exchange”
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
Giulia Palladini, University of Erfurt
“The Politics and Poetics of Foreplay” |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Rebecca Schneider, Brown University
“Acting in Ruins: Theatre’s ‘Adhesive Dead’ and the Circulation of Social Affect” |
| |
|
|
| 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
|
Career Sessions |
| |
|
CS1 - Publish, Don't Perish: Articles |
| |
|
|
| |
|
David Savran, City University of New York |
| |
|
Penny Farfan, University of Calgary |
| |
|
Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California-Santa Barbara |
| |
|
Mike Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS 2 - Publish, Don't Perish: Books |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Thomas Postlewait, University of Washington |
| |
|
LeAnn Fields, University of Michigan Press |
| |
|
Jill Dolan, Princeton University |
| |
|
Tavia Nyong'o, New York University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS3 - Under Pressure: Claiming Success and Sanity in Your Pre-Tenure Years |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Paige McGinley, Yale University |
| |
|
Harvey Young, Northwestern University |
| |
|
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS4 - Surviving and Thriving in the Dissertation |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York, The Graduate Center |
| |
|
Stephen Johnson, University of Toronto |
| |
|
Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS 5 - Navigating the Changing Job Market: Academic Alternatives |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Ken Cerniglia, Dramaturg and Literary Manager, Disney Theatrical Group |
| |
|
Rebecca Hewitt, ACLS Public Fellow; Cultural Programs Specialist, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs |
| |
|
Lue Morgan Douthit, Director of Literary Development and Dramaturgy, Oregon Shakespeare Festival |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS 7 - Pedagogical Predicaments: Meeting the Challenge of 21st-Century Teaching |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University |
| |
|
Scott Magelssen, Bowling Green State University |
| |
|
Christina McMahon, University of California-Santa Barbara |
| |
|
|
| |
|
CS 8 - Exploring New Paradigms in Graduate Education |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Heather Nathans, University of Maryland |
| |
|
J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University |
| |
|
|
| 1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
|
Working Sessions 1 |
| |
|
WS 1 - Reading Paratext: The Economies of 19th Century Play Publishing |
| |
|
Convenors: Mary Isbell, University of Connecticut; Kate Wilson, City University of New York |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 2 - Erotic Economies: Selling Sex in the Theatrical Archive |
| |
|
Convenors: Jessica Hester, State University of New York at Oswego; Allan Sikes, Louisiana State University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 3 - Starving Artists: Exploring (and Advancing) Radical Economies of Theater |
| |
|
Convenors: D. Ohlandt, Unviersity of Michigan; Amrita Ramanan |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 4 - Trading (on) Minority Stock: Changing Identities within Theatrical Markets of History, Theory and Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Gina Pisasale, University of Maryland; Esther Terry, University of Pittsburgh |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 5 - Economies of Mediated Performances |
| |
|
Convenors: Sarah Bay-Cheng, University at Buffalo; Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Roehampton University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 6 - Dreaming Again: Deoncstructing the Categories of Alternative British Theatre |
| |
|
Convenors: Brian Cook, University of New Mexico; Sara Freeman, University of Oregon |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 7 - Cognitive Science: Theatre, Dance and Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Amy Cook, Indiana University; Jon Lutterbie, Stony Brook University |
| |
|
|
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
|
TLA-Sponsored Tour of Cirque du Soleil |
| |
|
Pre-registration and bus payment required. Limit: 20 |
| |
|
|
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
|
Plenary 4: Public Purses |
| |
|
Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of London
"The Theatre of Rent: The Urban Cultural Economics of Contemporary Performance" |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Jennifer Schlueter, Ohio State University
"Beyond The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes, Economics, and the Audience" |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Jenna Soleo-Shanks, Briar Cliff University
"The Spectacle of Sainthood: Politics and the Performance of La festa et storia di Sanctu Caterina in Siena" |
| |
|
|
| 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
|
Working Sessions 2 |
| |
|
WS 8 - The Economies of Medieval Performance Culture |
| |
|
Convenor: Lofton Durham, Western Michigan University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 9 - Spectacles of Labor |
| |
|
Convenors: Chase Bringardner, Auburn University; Christin Essin, Vanderbilt University; Monica Stufft, University of San Diego |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 10 - Economies of African Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Elliott Lefler, University of Minnesota; Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 11 - Performance and the Economy of Global Topographies: Ascription, Value and the Body |
| |
|
Convenors: Neil Doshi, University of Pittsburgh; Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Pittsburgh |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 12 - Performing Migration: Economies of Displacement and Belonging |
| |
|
Convenors: Emine Fisek, Johns Hopkins University; Charlotte McIvor, Santa Clara University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 13 - Contaminating Bodies, Infectious Displays: Women as Performative Currency |
| |
|
Convenors: Jen-Scott Mobley, City University of New York; Jill Stevenson, Marymount Manhattan College |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 14 - Center-Staging the Sixties: Commercial Theatres, Mainstream Performances and Popular Stages in the 1960s |
| |
|
Convenors: James Harding, Warwick University; Cindy Rosenthal, Hofstra University |
| |
|
back to top |
| |
|
|
| Saturday, November 19 |
|
|
| 7:15 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. |
|
Demystifying ASTR: How and Why We Do What We Do, and How You Can Get Inolved |
| |
|
Do you wonder how conference themes are selected? How people get into leadership positions in the organization? How you can get more involved? All are welcome to this conversation on the nuts and bolts of ASTR. |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Convenor: Scott Magelssen, Bowling Green State University |
| |
|
Susan Bennett, University of Calgary; Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist University; Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University; John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University; Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London; Stacy Wolf, Princeton University |
| |
|
|
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
|
Registration Desk Open |
| |
|
|
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
|
Book Exhibit Open (closed 12:30 - 2:30 p.m. for lunch)
Book Exhibit ends at 5 p.m. |
| |
|
|
| 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
|
Working Sessions 3 |
| |
|
WS 15 - Hope and (Ex)change: Economies of Performance Activism |
| |
|
Convenors: John Fletcher, Louisiana State University; Sonja Kuftinec, University of Minesota |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 16 - Consuming Global Theatre in the Age of Empire |
| |
|
Convenors: Christopher Balme, Ludgwig-Maxmillians Univerität München; Nic Leonhardt, Ludgwig-Maxmillians Univerität München |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 17 - War and War-Time Performance: The Cost of Battle |
| |
|
Convenors: Kimi Johnson, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jenna Kubly, Independent Scholar |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 18 - 1973 or A Moment Like It |
| |
|
Convenor: Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 19 - Rethinking the Secular: Performance, Religion and the Public Sphere |
| |
|
Convenors: Milija Gluhovic, Warwick University; Jisha Menon, Stanford University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 20 - Commercial Dance: New Economies of the Dancing Body |
| |
|
Convenors: Jessica Berson, Harvard University; Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 21 - Corporate Cultures: Contemporary Economies of Cultureal Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Eero Laine, Carly Griffin Smith and Peter Zazzali, all City University of New York |
| |
|
|
| 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
|
Plenary 5: TLA Plenary - Fringe Economies, Commercial Ventures, and Cultural Repositories |
| |
|
Lynne Conner, Colby College
"The Audience as Cultural Repository"
|
| |
|
Robert Crane, University of Pittsburgh
"From the Worker's Club to the Archive: Documenting the Economies of Early Soviet Popular Theatre" |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Beth Kattelman, Ohio State University
"Lying in the Archives: Magicians, Charlatans and the Economy of Deception" |
| |
|
|
| 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
|
Awards Luncheon and ASTR Annual Meeting |
| |
|
Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist University; Kenneth Schlesinger, President, Theatre Library Association (TLA); Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University, Director of Awards |
| |
|
|
| 2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. |
|
Plenary 6: Material Labour |
| |
|
Broderick Chow, Brunel Univeristy, and Darren O'Donnell, Mammalian Diving Reflex
"Economies of Mobility, Economies of Impermanence: Towards a New Artistic Critique" |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Diana Looser, University of Queensland
"Intangible Economies: Examining Theatre as Social Remittance in the Contemporary Pacific Region" |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Paul Rae, National University of Singapore
"Performance and Finance Capital" |
| |
|
|
| 4:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
|
Working Sessions 4 |
| |
|
WS 22 - Virtuosity |
| |
|
Convenors: Jim Dennen, Brown University; Ariel Osterweis, University of California |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 23 - Indigenous Performance Research in the Americas: Production and Consumption of Indigeneity |
| |
|
Convenors: Ryan Hartigen, Brown University; Tiffany Noell, Arizona State University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 24 - Entertaining Children: The Participation of Children in Theatre and the Entertainment Industry |
| |
|
Convenor: Victor Emeljanow, University of Newcastle, Australia |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 25 - Theatre, Economy and Communism in Post-War Eastern European Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Dassia Posner, Northwestern University; Magda Romanska, Emerson College |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 26 - Shared Territories, Common Grounds: Performance as Research and Practice-Based Research |
| |
|
Convenors: Daniel Mroz, University of Ottawa; Kris Salata, Stanford University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 27 - Shakespearean Performance Research Group |
| |
|
Convenors: Catherine Burris, California State University, Channel Islands; Franklin J. Hildy, University of Maryland; Robert Ormbsby, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Don Weingust, Center for Shakespeare Studies, South Oregon University; and W.B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 28 - Economies of Showing |
| |
|
Convenors: Kim Marra, University of Iowa; Catherine Schuler, University of Maryland |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 29 - Traumatic Structures |
| |
|
Convenors: Mary Karen Dahl, Florida State University; Katherine Nigh, Arizona State University |
| |
|
back to top |
| |
|
|
| Sunday, November 20 |
|
|
| 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. |
|
Plenary 7: State of the Profession |
| |
|
|
| 10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
|
Working Sessions 5 |
| |
|
WS 30 - Economies, Labor and Bodies: Theatre and Performance as Sites of Economic Coexistence in the Americas |
| |
|
Convenors: Ivone Barriga, University of Minnesota; Alberto Guevara, York University; Marcela Fuentes, University of California, Los Angeles; and Katherine Zien, Northwestern University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 31 - Comedies of Capitalism: Theatre History and the Future(s) of Happiness |
| |
|
Convenors: Alan Ackerman, University of Toronto; Lawrence Switzky, University of Toronto |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 32 - Moveable Feasts: Analyzing Food in Drama, Theatre and Performance |
| |
|
Convenors: Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University; Ann Folino White, Michigan State University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 33 - Economies of Place and Performance
Convenors: Susan Bennett, University of Calgary; Karen Fricker, Royal Holloway University of London |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 34 - Innovation, Economics and Stage Design |
| |
|
Convenors: Stephen Di Benedetto, University of Miami; Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 35 - "Yes, I Would Rather Date Your Avatar": Online Economies of Representation in Virtual Performance and Social Networking |
| |
|
Convenors: Leigh Clemons, Louisiana State University; Susanne Shawyer, Dalhousie University |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 36 - Economies of Popular Entertainment |
| |
|
Convenors: Michelle Granshaw, University of Washington; AnnMarie T. Saunders, University of Maryland; and Aaron Tobiason, University of Maryland |
| |
|
|
| |
|
WS 37 - Intellectual Property and Performance: Negotiating Intangible Mediums of Expression |
| |
|
Convenors: Oliver Gerland, University of Colorado, Boulder; Derek Miller, Stanford University |
| |
|
|
| 12:15 p.m. |
|
Conference Ends |
| |
|
back to top |
