WOMEN IN ACTION: CRISIS, ACTIVISM, AND RECONSTRUCTION
27th Annual Women and Theatre Program Conference
July 24-25, 2007 ~ New Orleans, Louisiana
The New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA)/Riverfront
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Conference Schedule
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
12:00 PM-7:30 PM
Registration
1:00 PM-4:00 PM
The Aesthetics and Practicalities of Witnessing Workshop
Sandra Crews (Wright State University)
Katie Rodda (CSU San Marcos and San Diego City College)
Annie Ruth (New Zealand Drama School)
Louise Smith (Antioch College)
Feminist Theater Aesthetics and Pedagogy Workgroup
Stefka Mihaylova (Northwestern), “Performing Objecthood: Feminist
Strategies for Radical Representation”
Kathleen Juhl (Southwestern), “Stanislavsky/Method-Based Approaches
to Feminist Acting”
Natka Bianchini (Tufts), “Feminism and the Cannon”
Lisa Hall (UC Boulder), “Teaching the Cannon to Non-Majors: A
Technique for Developing Students’ Feminist Perspective”
Domnica Radulescu (Washington and Lee), “Commedia dell’arte Gone
Feminist: Theater Directing and Acting Through Feminist Revisiting of
Commedia Techniques”
Norma Bowles (Fringe Benefits Acting Company), “Exploring Sexism in
the Academy—A Hands on Theater for Social Justice Sample Workshop”
4:30 PM-6:15 PM
Staged Reading: Jane Chambers Award Winning Play
6:15 PM-7:30 PM
Dinner Break
7:30 PM-8:30 PM
Performance: Of Barbed Tongues and Razor Wire: A Look Inside
Women’s Resistance to Prison Repression
Araceli Archuleta-Cazarez (CSU San Marcos)
Toni Benites (Former Prisoner, Activist, Drug and Alcohol Counselor)
Gloria Killian (Action Committee for Women in Prison)
Janice Jordan (Counselor and Community Activist)
Jodie M. Lawston (CSU San Marcos)
Dale Marshall (California Coalition for Women Prisoners)
8:30 PM-9:30 PM
Graduate Student Networking Session
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
8:00 AM-6:00 PM
Registration
8:30 AM-9:50 AM
Panel: En Voz Alta: Challenging Notions of Loss and Mourning in
Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Latino/a and Latin American Theatre
Carlos Manuel Chavarría (ASU), “Lloronas”
Marla Fuentes (UCSD), “Legacy of a Silenced Voice: Representations of
Sexualized Violence in Chicana Theater and Mainstream U.S. Media”
Jade Power (UCSD), “Speaking Transcultural: Spanglish in Performance
from the DR to PR to NYC”
Phil Howard (UCSD), “La Tierra, Nuestra Madre: Land, Burial, Memory,
and Chicanidad in Alfaro’s Electricidad, Moraga’s Heroes and Saints, and
Sánchez-Scott’s Roosters”
Moderator: Ashley Lucas (UNC-CH)
Workshop: Mothers Acting Up-LIVE: Using Theatre as a Tool for
Empowering Mothers to Be Effective Advocates for the World’s Children
Beth Osnes
10:00 AM-11:20 AM
Panel: Performing Social Protest
Michael Shane Boyle (UC Berkeley), “Border Practices: Performance,
Activism, and (Mis)Representation in Ciudad Juárez”
Lindsay Cummings (Cornell), “Waging Peace: The Representational
Ethics of Women’s Protests”
Amy Phillips Brust (UNC-CH), “The Struggle for Recognition, the
Struggle for Voice: The Poetic Search for Support and Community of
American Women Vietnam War Veterans”
Moderator: Stephanie Batiste (Carnegie Mellon)
Panel: Deconstructing Women: External Crisis and Its Reflection on
the Female Body
Amy E. Cook (Emory), “Lavinia’s Tongue”
Heather Donahoe LaForge (UCSD), “The Subaltern Speaks: Silent Sarah
in Translations”
Summer Neilson Moshy (UCSD), “Blast You Cate! The Cyclone of
Violence in Sarah Kane's Blasted”
Aimee Zygmonski (UCSD), “Out of Body: Kia Corthron’s Cage Rhythm”
Moderator: Joan Lipkin, That Uppity Theatre Co.
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM-2:20 PM
WTP Performance about the Hurricanes and Their Aftermath
2:30 PM-3:50 PM
Panel and Performance: Race and Place in Global Performances
Diana Looser (Cornell), “Gendering Diaspora: (Dis)Location, History,
Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Women’s Performance in
Aotearoa, New Zealand”
Fereshteh Vaziri Nasab (Goethe University, Frankfurt), “Double
Performance: Body, Language, and Space for Iranian Actresses”
Yasmine Rana, Returning: A performance of three monologues
Ezzat Goushegir, “I’m a Rhinoceros!” and "Medea Was Born in Fallujah"
Moderator: Lisa Merrill (Hofstra)
Graduate student workshop on IRB forms
Julie N. Vogt (University of Wisconsin)
4:00 PM-4:50 PM
Performances: 365 Days/365 Plays
WTP Business Meeting
5:00 PM-6:00 PM
Featured Talk: Reading Sappho in New Orleans
Ruth Salvaggio (UNC-CH)
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Dinner
7:30 PM-8:00 PM
Performance: Cristal Sabbagh, Tedessa
8:15 PM-8:55 PM
Performance: Wendy Salkind, Ida
8:55 PM-9:30 PM
Discussion of Tedessa and Ida
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