Schedule

We are ending 2015–2016 with a conference in honor of the final year of Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale, launched by Joseph Roach in 2011 with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Through our conference theme, we seek to honor the various crossings IPSY has fostered and encouraged to be explored—between disciplines, identities, epistemologies, practices, and cultures. Ultimately, this conference celebrates the crossing of this initiative from the intellectual and artistic seeds it has cultivated to the projects that will result—and, indeed, already have.

All panels will take place in the ballroom of 220 York Street. The conference is open to the public.

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

1:00-1:30 PM | OPENING REMARKS
Joseph Roach

1:30-3:00 PM | LIVES ACROSS ARCHIVES

DMZ Crossing: Shadows of the ‘Forgotten War’ at the Korean War Memorial
Suk-Young Kim, University of California Santa Barbara

Archiving Fabulous: Transmedial Drag and Cabaret’s Digital Dilemma
TL Cowan, The New School & Yale University

“See My Face on the Other Side”: Catching Up with Geeshie & Elvie
Daphne Brooks, Yale University

3:00-3:30 PM | BREAK

3:30-5:00 PM | CROSSING THE DANCE FLOOR

Jumping the Groove: A Counterfactual History of Performance Studies
Shane Vogel, Indiana University

How To Go Clubbing
Madison Moore, Kings College London

Funk’s Lesson
Tavia Nyong’o, New York University & Yale University

5:00–9:00 PM | BREAK

9:00 PM
Crossing ‘Funk Lessons’: An Unauthorized Reencounter with the Black Social Dance Forms of the early 1980s.
Tavia Nyong’o

 

SATURDAY APRIL 23

8:45-10:15 AM | CULTURAL SENSATIONS

Masses and Movement: The Choreography of Identity
Kimberly Jannarone, University of California Santa Cruz & Yale University

Miranda’s Manifesto, or Teasing the Limits of Casting in the Post-Hamilton Era
Brian Herrera, Princeton University

Radical Crossings: How France Canonized the American Avant-Garde
Kate Bredeson, Reed College

10:15-10:30 AM | BREAK

10:30 AM -12:00 PM | SLIPPERY BODIES

Sensing Grace Jones and Other Sensuous Acts of Knowing
Uri McMillan, University of California Los Angeles

Buster Keaton’s Black Deadpan
Tina Post, Yale University

Is Everybody Still Kung-Fu Fighting?
Christine Mok, University of Cincinnati

12:00-1:30 PM | BREAK

1:30-3:00 PM | CROSSING EPISTEMOLOGICAL BORDERS

Imagining theatre at the crossroads of theory and practice
Daniel Sack, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Campers’ Revenge: Reflections on Contemporary Queer Performance
Nick Salvato, Cornell University

DOC/UNDOC: The Artists’ Book as “Border Kit”
Jennifer Buckley, The University of Iowa

3:00-3:30 PM | BREAK

3:30-5:00 PM | THE PLAYWRIGHT AS HISTORICAL INTERVENTIONIST

The Uses and Abuses of History for Drama
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Playwright, Hunter College

Unbeautiful Black Labor: Millet, Grimké’s Rachel, & New Negro Peasants
Lena Hill, The University of Iowa

Latinx Theatre in the Times of Neoliberalism
Patricia Ybarra, Brown University

5:00–7:30 PM | BREAK

7:30 PM | TEESRI DHUN  (“The Third Tune”)
Marquand Chapel | 409 Prospect Street, New Haven

Documentary theater on transgender struggles in Pakistan, directed by ISM Fellow Claire Pamment and Olomopolo Media’s Iram Sana.

Followed by talkback with Claire Pamment and actors Naghma Gogi, Neeli Rana, Jannat Ali, Anaya Malik, moderated by Elise Morrison.