Women & Theatre Program, ATHE

1:30 – 4.45
                        Dance/Drama Therapy, Identity and Healing
                        Rhona Justice-Malloy (University of Mississippi), Session Co-ordinator
                        "Authentic Movement, Healing and Female Embodiment.”
                        Adam McKinney (New York University)
                        "Movement, Healing, Ritual and Performance – Ghana and South Africa.”
                        Judith Royer (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles)
                        "Stages: Life Stories for Senior Citizens and Other Oral History Projects for the Aging
                        and/or Cancer Survivors.”
                        Amy Elliott (Criminal Juvenile Justice Resource Center)
                        “Criminal/Juvenile Justice: Collaborative, Community-Based Approaches to Drama
                        Therapy and Performance.”
                        Sally Bailey (Kansas State University)
                        “Exploring Identity Through Drama Therapy.”
                        Heather Carver (University of Missouri-Columbia)
                        “’Booby Prize:’ Writing Performance as a Journey of Breast Cancer.”

1.30 – 3.00
                        MD Panel: The Future of the “F” Word: Feminist Theatre Scholarship in the 21st
                        Century
                        J. Ellen Gainor (Cornell University), Chair
                        Meghan Brodie (Cornell University), Co-Coordinator
                        Megan Shea (Cornell University),Co-Coordinator
                        Jennifer Popple (University of Colorado-Boulder)
                        Gwendolyn Alker (New York University)
                        Meghan Brodie (Cornell University)
                        Lisa Hall (University of Colorado-Boulder)
                        Adrienne Macki (Boston College)
                        Magda Romanska (Emerson College)
                        Diana Looser (Cornell University)
                        Erica Stevens Abbitt (University of Windsor)

3.15-4:45
                        MD Panel: Katrina’s Reverberations
                        Geoff Proehl (University of Puget Sound), Chair
                        “The New Orleans Monologues.”
                        Samuel Hunter (Iowa Playwrights' Workshop, University of Iowa) Moderator
                        “American Apathy in the West Bank.”
                        John Baker (Iowa Playwrights' Workshop, University of Iowa) Moderator
                        “American Apathy in the West Bank.”
                        Theresa Smalec (New York University) Session Coordinator
                        “All About Katrina: Film Artists Negotiate the Burdens of Representing Post-Hurricane
                        New Orleans.”
                        Anthony Piccirillo      (Independent Screenwriter/Director)
                        “All About Katrina: Film Artists Negotiate the Burdens of Representing Post-Hurricane
                        New Orleans.”
                        Jason Tremblay (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “Intersections: Dramaturgical and Outreach Practices for Young Audiences;
                        or Katrina: A Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back.”
                        Kristin Leahey (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “Intersections: Dramaturgical and Outreach Practices for Young Audiences;
                        or Katrina: A Girl Who Wanted Her Name Back.”
                        C. Rosalind Bell
                        “The New Orleans Monologues.”
                        Grace Livingston (University of Puget Sound)
                        “The New Orleans Monologues”
                        N.J. Stanley (Lycoming College)
                        “The City That Care Forgot Takes to the Streets.”

Friday, July 27, 2007

9:00 - 10.30 am
                        MD Panel: Regenerating Praxis: A Roundtable on Empathy, Activism, and
                        Performance in Times of Crisis
                        John Fletcher (Louisiana State University), Chair
                        Sonja Kuftinec (University of Minnesota)
                        Linda Kintz (University of Oregon)
                        Gay Gibson Cima (Georgetown University)
                        Anne-Liese Juge-Fox (Louisiana State University)
                        Rhonda Blair (Southern Methodist University)

12.30 - 2.00 pm
Women and Theatre Program General Business Meeting

4.00 – 5.30 pm
                        Affect and Labor
                        Sara Warner (Cornell University)
                        “Raging at the Commodification of Affect in the Five Lesbian Brothers’ The
                        Secretaries.”
                        Erin Hurley (McGill University)
                        “Emotional Geographies and National Labours.”
                        Peta Tait (Latrobe University)
                        “Performing Hope in War-time: Eleanor Roosevelt and Emotion Work.”
                        Nicholas Ridout (Queen Mary University of London)
                        “Feeling Bad: Bad Feeling.”

4.00 – 7.15 pm
                        Comic Regenerations: Feminist Humor – Subversions, Aversions, Diversions
                        Dominica Radulescu (Washington and Lee University), Chair
                        “Isabella's Madness, Franca's Carnival and a Refugee's Subversions.”
                        Sarah Myers (University of Texas at Austin
                        “God of the Gaps - an Absurd Exploration of Intelligent Design.”
                        Norma Bowles (Fringe Benefits Theater Company)
                        “Comedy for Social Justice.”
                        Deborah Margolin (Performer)
                        “O Yes I Will - a new solo piece by performance artist Deb Margolin.”
                        Dalia Basiouny (Cuny Graduate Center)
                        “Arab American Women's Comedy.”
                        Kate Davy (Bentley College)
                        “Exploding Identities: Lisa Kron's Well.”
                        Joan Lipkin (That Uppity Theater Company)
                        “Turning the Tables: Humor and the Reframing of Power.”
                        Victoria Stanham (Montevideo Players Society)
                        “Woman in Distress: A Showcase of Monologues, Songs and Dance.”
                        Kelly Howe (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “The Intelligent Design Variety Hour: Sarah Myers’ ‘God of the Gaps’ as Feminist
                        Historiographical Comedy.”
                        Anneliese Euler (Naropa University)
                        “Comic Feminist Cabaret: Multiple Identities, Multiple Risks.”

8.30 – 10.00 am
                        “I Got Apocalypse Survival Skills”
                        Arden Thomas (Stanford University), Session Co-ordinator
                        “’The Apocalypse, or the Katrina Boogie:’ The Landscape of Survival in Plays by
                        Yvette Sirker.”
                        Yvette Sirker (ZHoux ZHoux Theater Company, New Orleans)
                        “Performing Monologues from ‘Pink Collar Crime.’”
                        Theresa May (University of Oregon)
                        “In the Wake of Katrina: Practicing a Dangerous Ecocriticism.”
                        Sarah Standing
                        “The Yes Men: Critiquing Media Narcosis and the Politics of Rebuilding New
                        Orleans.”

10.15 – 11:45 am
                        Women and Theatre Program Debut Panel
                        Erica Stevens Abbitt, Session Co-ordinator
                        Connie Rapoo (University of Los Angeles at California)
                        “African Mamas and Warriors: Interrogating Female Subjectivity in Botswana.”
                        Radhica Ganapathy (Texas Tech University)
                        “(R)Evolutionary Path of Women's Autobiographical Crisis Narratives.”
                        Kimi D. Johnson (Florida State University)
                        “The Reign of Wazobia: The Intersection of Post-Colonial Reconstruction and
                        Contemporary Feminist Thought in Conventional Igbo Society.”
                        Sarah Myers (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “A New Feminist Collective: Difference and the Performance of Sexual Identity in
                        Rude Mechanicals’ Grrl Action.”

4.00 – 7.15 pm
Jane Chambers Playwriting Event 2007
followed by Membership Reception

9:45-11:15 am
                        Cross-Cultural Carnivalesque
                        Nobuko Anan (University of California at Los Angeles), Chair
                        “Carnival without End: Negotiating Subjectivity in ‘Emancipation of Women.’”
                        Xiao Che (University of California, Santa Barbara)
                        “Witness Against History: Performing Insanity in ‘The Nirvana of Granpa Doggie.’”
                        Jennifer Popple (University of Colorado at Boulder)
                        “The Spaces Between: Early American Vaudeville and the Construction of the ‘New
                        Woman.’”

11.30 am-1.00 pm
                        Fan-tastic Inventions
                        Carrie Sandahl (Florida State University), Chair
                        Kristen Leahy (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “American Girl Revue: The Consumerism of Patriotism.”
                        Jennifer L. Parker (Florida State University)
                        “Xena and Me: Theater by Fans, for Fans.”
                        Michelle Dvoskin (University of Texas at Austin)
                        “’I Hate Musicals, But..:’ Fan Engagement with the Musical Episodes of Buffy the
                        Vampire Slayers and Xena: Warrior Princess.”

11.30 – 1.00 pm
                        MD Panel: Performing Identity in Contemporary Social Dance
                        Mary Karen Dahl (Florida State University), Chair
                        J. Ellen Gainor (Cornell University), Session Coordinator
                        "’But Who Leads?’ Same-Sex Ballroom Dance and the Heteronormative Paradigm.”
                        Clare Croft (University of Texas)
                        “Whose Body Can Lie?: Understanding Shakira's ‘My Hips Don't Lie’ as a
                        Choreography of Strategic Essentialism.”
                        Carrie Stern    (independent scholar)
                        "Hairspray," Whiteness, and Rock 'n' Roll: How Rock Dance Became White.”
                        Joanna Bosse (Bowdoin College)
                        “Dance in Hollywood Film: Class, Race, and Narratives of Transformation.”