Please find below a schedule of presentations for the Fall 2019 semester. We will meet on these Tuesdays from 2-3pm in 220 York Street, room 100. Light refreshments will be available. All are welcome. Hope to see you there!
PSWG Events
Oct 1 — Kimberly Jannarone, “Publicly Performing Politics: The Mass Gymnastics of North Korea”
Oct 8 — Jenn Joy, “Requiem of Shadows”
Oct 15 — Charles O’Malley, “Specific Anarchy: Subversion of Gender in 1970s San Francisco”
Oct 22 — Steve Luber, “FPS: First-Person Spectator”
Nov 5 — Elise Morrison, “Postdramatic Stress: Performance in the Aftermath of War”
Nov 12 — Katherine Profeta, “The Promise of Common Creation in Improv Comedy and Contact Improvisation”
Nov 19 — Shilarna Stokes, “On Being Numerous: Mass Pageantry and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty.”
Nov 26 — (Thanksgiving week, no PSWG meeting)
Dec 3 — Joseph Roach, “The Temptations of Goodness: Brecht’s Enlightenment”
Dec 10 — Kathryn Lofton, “Gospel Minstrelsy in Popular Music: The Case of Bob Dylan”
Dec 17 — Gavin Whitehead, “She Looks as if She’s Seen a Ghost”
Events of Interest: Other performance studies-related events happening on or near campus
- Sep 25: Center for Collaborative Arts & Media (CCAM) Talk, “Physics and Dance,” Emily Coates and Sarah Demers, 7-9pm. CCAM, 149 York Street. Link here
- Oct 22: Hot Topics Lecture: Jonathan Meth, 3:30pm. Sponsored by the Department of Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama. Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 317
- Oct 23: Slavic Studies colloquium, Meghann Barker, “Slipping Away: Uncanny Tensions in Puppetry and Childhood,” 3-5pm, WLH 208
- Oct 31: Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, Wesleyan University and Research Scholar at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) presents “Islamizing a Hindu-Javanese Texts: The Story of Jimat Kalimasada in Wayang Puppet Play” at the ISM Fellows Lunch, 12-1, Graduate Club
- Nov 6: City Seed and Sanctuary Kitchen (New Haven based refugee advocacy groups) partner with Bregamos Theater to screen a film about an adaptation of Antigone performed by Syrian refugee women in Lebanon, 7-9pm
- December 10: Hot Topics Lecture: Katalin Trencsényi, 3:30pm. Sponsored by the Department of Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama. (Location TBD)