10:30-12:00 Valediction, Self, and Society
Julia Fawcett, Ryerson University
“Save the Last Dance: Performance as History in Restoration London”
Justin Sider, Yale University
“The Consummated Spell: A.C. Swinburne’s Farewell Address”
Elizabeth Wiet, Yale University
“Ron Vawter/Jack Smith: Queer Goodbyes and the New York Avant-Garde”
Andrew Brown, Yale University (Respondent)
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Memorials and Traumas of Nationhood
Michelle Martin-Baron, Hobart and William Smith College
“Farewell Performances and Futuristic Hauntings”
Jessica Rizzo, Yale University
“Trauma as Performance: Lola Arias’s El Año en Que Nací”
Carrie J. Preston, Boston University
“Undead Plays: Yeats’s Irish National Theater and Japanese Noh Drama”
Joey Plaster, Yale University (Respondent)
3:15-4:45 Resisting Farewell
Dominika Laster, Yale University
“Agency for Hiring the Dearly Departed”: Surrogation in Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Death”
Paige McGinley, Washington University in St. Louis
“(Don’t) Take a Bow: On Curtain Calls and Concluding Songs”
Elise Morrison, Yale University
“Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Practices of Re-Membering through Digital Surveillance”
Tina Post, Yale University (Respondent)
5:00 Closing Remarks
Joseph Roach, Yale University