Theater and Performance

THEATER AND PERFORMANCE SPEAKERS: Noe Montez, Tufts University; Carrie Preston, Boston University; Ashlie Sandoval, Harvard University As faculty and staff, we are hailed into anti-racist work in various ways: in our classrooms, in meetings about our...

THEATER AND PERFORMANCE SPEAKER: Harvey Young, Boston University In this seminar, attendees will discuss a forthcoming academic article by Harvey Young on public whippings in Delaware. Whereas there is an extensive literature on extra-legal corporal...

THEATER AND PERFORMANCE SPEAKER: Ariel Nereson, University of Buffalo, SUNY "Plague Dances: Revisiting Choreographic Archives of AIDS During COVID-19," brings together ideas and practices from Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane's choreography, critical race...

Theater and Performance SPEAKER: Christine Mok, University of Rhode Island This talk thinks through the site of the Hangang or Han River in Hansol Jung’s play Among the Dead and poems by Catherine Kim (Harvard ’18), E.J. Koh, and Don Mee Choi to explore...

Theater and Performance SPEAKER: Derek Miller, Harvard UNIVERSITY Law is an immensely, overwhelmingly textual practice, characterized by a seemingly endless flow of paperwork. But law also depends on a wide range of performances: witness testimonies...

Theater and Performance SPEAKER: Lilian Mengesha, Tufts UNIVERSITY Artists and activists consistently teach us that current methods for historical accountability are inadequate. Linking embodied actions around construction of objects, this paper charts...