Working Sessions 1
Thursday, November 12, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
DestiNation and Detour: Theatre’s Voyages in the Long Eighteenth Century
Conveners: Pannill Camp, Washington University, St. Louis; Virginia Scott, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Transatlantic Antitheatricality: Enlightenment Destinations and Detours
Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California, Riverside
Goldoni, Commedia dell’Arte and 18th Century Transnational Encounters
Odai Johnson, University of Washington, Seattle
Heart of Oak, and other Trans-Atlantic Transformations
Mechele Leon, University of Kansas
Channel Crossings: The drame bourgeois in English and French
Heather S. Nathans, University of Maryland
Wandering Jews: Traditions, Innovations, and Exchanges in Eighteenth-Century American Theatre
Joseph Roach, Yale University
Chance Destination: The Last of the Pequots
Kate Roark, University of Houston-Downtown
Transatlantic Slavery in the 1820s: The second Jonathan in England
Laurence Senelick, Tufts University
Russian Enterprise, Bengali Theatre And The Machinations Of The East India Company
Daniel Smith, Northwestern University
Detours in the Demimonde: ‘Le Bordel’ and the Obscenity of the Ancients
Ellwood Wiggins, Yale University
Shakespeare’s German Apprenticeship: Wilhelm Meister and the Mousetrap of Hamlet
Destination “Health”: Diagnosis, Prognosis, and the Residue of Clinical Presence
Conveners: Jisha Menon, Stanford University; Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego;
Virginia Anderson, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
The Privileged Clinic: Memory and Fantasy During the Early Years of the AIDS Epidemic
Catherine Cole, University of California, Berkeley
Diagnostic Procedures for States of Denial: William Kentridge’s History of the Main Complaint and Erik Ehn’s Maria Kizito
John Fletcher, Louisiana State University
Techniques of Self, Rights of Self: Culture Wars, Reparative Therapy, and the “Healthy” Homosexual
Thea Gold, University of California, Berkeley
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Performing Circumcision in the Musical
Michael Hunter, Stanford University
Styles of Deficiency: Reframing the Unfit Body in Firbank & Cunningham
Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia
Disruptive Spaces: Disability Theatre and the Clinic
Shawn Kairshner, Villanova University
Charcot’s Positivist Anti-Theatre: the Tuesday Lessons as Coercive Regime
Susan Schweik, University of California, Berkeley
Fits in the Clinic: Hissies, Conniptions, and Other Performative Seizures
Scott Wallin, University of California, Berkeley
Alternative Voices: Difference, Pathology, and Creativity in Community Mental Health
Shannon Walsh, University of Minnesota
Fueling the Socio-Economic Furnace: Dudley Allen Sargent’s Classed and Classing Physical Culture Practices
Ariel Watson, St. Mary’s University
Truth Drugs and Hothouse Flowers: The Mid-century Psychotherapy Play
Hana Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University
“Hail to the Conquering Heroes”: Advertising, Clinical Practice, and the Medical Interpellation of the Body
Digital Destinations
Conveners: Nick Salvato, Cornell University; Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico
Sarah Bay-Cheng, University of Buffalo
Digital Theatre Historiography
Sean Bliznik, Arizona State University
“We’re All In This Together”: Framing the Self-Representation of Adolescence in Disney’s High School Musical
Jean Graham-Jones, City University of New York
Santa Gilda: Virtuality as Devotional Orature
Brian Herrera, University of New Mexico
The Theatrics of Television’s Digital Transition
Katherine Mezur, University of Washington, Seattle
Digital Intimacies: Migrations and Translations in Live/media Performance
John Muse, Yale University
Play 2.0: The WikiPlay and Radically Inclusive Collaboration
Lisa Reinke, City University of New York Graduate Center
Developing Authenticity in Second Life
Emily Roxworthy, University of California, San Diego
Destination: Arkansas?: Digitally Modeling Anti-Segregation Performances of the World War II Delta
Nick Salvato, Cornell University
Watching Dallas on YouTube: Digitized Nostalgia, Nostalgic Digitization
David Savran, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Outsourcing Broadway
Susanne Shawyer, Dalhousie University
Bragging and Blogging: Improv Everywhere’s Digital Transmission of Models for Live Performance
Emotional Cartographies: Affect, Performance, and Politics
Conveners: Sara Warner, Cornell University; Erin Hurley, McGill University
Natalya Baldyga, Florida State University
“Ein Exempel aus der Körperwelt!”: Acting Theory and Affective Cultural Identity in the Work of G. E. Lessing
Jennifer Brody, Duke University
Feeling Edmonia Lewis Across Space and Time
Lindsay Cummings, Cornell University
“You have to cross borders”: Empathy as Journey in Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America
Alex Dodge, Indiana University
Feeling that Sensational Body
Kate Elswit, Stanford University
Other Engagements?
Kim Marra, University of Iowa
Equine Passion Play: The Life, Death, and Restoration of the High-Mettled Racer; Or, Harlequin on Horseback
José Esteban Muñoz, New York University
From Surface to Interior, Between Affect and Psychoanalysis: Plotting Affective Performance
Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer, Concordia University, Montreal Canada
Emotion Lab in Montreal: A Journey to Thebes
Katherine Nigh, Arizona State University
“When Trauma Travels”: a play about Hurricane Katrina travels from New Orleans to afar
Lisa Peschel, US Holocaust Memorial Museum / Jiho česká univerzita , Czech Republic
Leaning into the Affective Turn: Terminology for Emotion in Performance
Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London
Solitude in Relation (After Tears)
Rebecca Schneider, Brown University
Confederate Camp
Robert Vrtis, University of Oregon
Emotional Contagion
Sara Warner, Cornell University
Emotional States: Performing an Affective Cartography of the Lesbian Nation
Moveable Feasts: Methods and Theories for Analyzing Food Performance
Conveners: Dorothy Chansky, Texas Tech University ; Ann F. White, Michigan State University
Alyssa Brown, Tufts University
The Holodomor in Drama: Planting Ecological Loss in Place
Will Daddario, University of Minnesota
Enforced Sobriety: Ruzzante and the Ethics of Hunger in Sixteenth-Century Padua
Catherine Ming T’ien D uffly, University of California, Berkeley
Performing Food Politics: The Aesthetics of Change in the Land of Milk-n-Honey
Jesse Njus, Northwestern University
Fast or Famine: The Concept of Food in Medieval Performance
Cindy Rosenthal, Hofstra University
Why is this seder different from all other seders: ‘Maggid’ (re-telling): Analyzing the Living
Theatre’s Passover Performances”
S.I. Salamensky, University of California Los Angeles
Sugar Shack: Sigalit Landau, Rikrit Tiravanija, Wong Kar Wei and ‘Homefulness’ in the Global Era
Megan Shea, New York University
Capitalist Pig: Consumption and the Tragedy of Anna Nicole Smith
Matthew Shifflet t , University of Maryland, College Park
“Ce que Moreuil m’a Dit”: Francois Vatel and the Unbroken Gaze
Monica Stuffit, University of San Diego
Food Journeys: “Communitas” and Hegemony in Naomi Iizuka’s Anon(ymous)
E.J. Westlake, University of Michigan
The Performance of Lake City Commerce: Appleseed Days and Toilet Races
Patria, Home/Land as Destination in Puerto Rican and Cuban Theatre from the Islands and their Diaspora
Convener: Gloria Waldman, The City University of New York
Jorge Luis Morejón, University of California, Davis
Rituals of Exile: Cuban-American Effigies
Boris Daussà-Pastor, City University of New York Graduate Center/Brooklyn College
Theatre in Cuba: “Proyectos” and the Emergence of Queerness
Dr. Yael Prizant, University of Notre Dame
Teatro Buendía and the Cuban Imaginary
Kimberly del Busto Ramírez, LaGuardia Community College ( CUNY )
Motherland, Miniature, and Memory in the installation/performance art of María Brito and Ana Mendieta
Jason Ramírez, Bronx Community College ( CUNY )
If a cat gives birth in an oven, what is born…a kitten or bread?: Displacement and Nuyorican Identity in Carmen Rivera’s La Gringa
Analola Santana, California State University, Fresno
Form and Identity in the Theater of Migdalia Cruz
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Washington
Franca de Armiño’s Las Hipocritas: “Homelands” and the Colonias in Depression Era New York City
Alfredo J. Sosa-Velasco, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Performing Gender, Performing Sexual Identities in Edwin Sánchez’s Theater
Playful Destinations
Conveners: Drew Chappell, California State University, Fullerton; Matt Omasta, Providence College
Lindsay Adamson Livingston, City University of New York
“Not an Empty Cheating Echo”: Playing Frontiersman at Tourist-Hunting Destinations
Dena Davis Freed, Glendale Community College
Build-A-Bear, Build-An-Experience: Cultural Construction and Play at/on/in Location
Jennifer Goodlander, Ohio University
Plaza Indonesia: Performing Modernity in a Shopping Mall
Stephen Harrick, Bowling Green State University
Vintage Baseball and the Staging of History
Natalie Harrower, Queen’s University
Nostalgia and DestiNation: Performing Poverty at the Famine Village Theme Park
Ana Paula Höfling, University of California at Los Angeles
Destination: Capoeira
Kimi Johnson, University of Minnesota
All in a Day’s Play: Torturing the Torturer in a Virtual Wargame
Megan Sanborn Jones, Brigham Young University
Mormon Pageant Family Casts: Performing, Proselytizing, and Playing Together
Oona Kersey Hatton, Northwestern University
Playing with History: Josefina and the (sort of) Performance of the Past
Kristin Leahey, Wooly Mammoth Theatre
The Child Respondent Method: A Play Development Praxis for Theatre for Young Audiences
Jeff List, University of Kansas
Fandom as Performance
John Moss, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Far-East/Mid-West: Reigniting Passion on Two Continents
Michael Schwartz, Widener University
Swimming with Sharks: The Art of Seduction of South African Tourists
Dani Snyder, Illinois Wesleyan University
Wizards, Warriors, and Clerics: Heroic Identity Construction In Live Action Role Playing Games
