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.