Colloquium Series - Past Years
2010-2011
Sept 17: |
Symposium on the work of Tadeusz Kantor, Cogut Center for the Humanties, room 305, 9-6PM. Guests: Michal Kobialka, Professor, University of Minnesota, and Ludmila Ryba, former company member, Cricot 2. |
October 1: |
Key Text 1- led by Rebecca Schneider |
October 15: |
Colloquium with Ann Pellegrini, Professor, Performance Studies, NYU, "Between Performance and Politics: Religion's Queer Spaces" |
Nov 12: |
Dissertation Proposal Writing Workshop with Graduate Faculty |
Nov 18-21: |
ASTR conference in Seattle, Washington |
December 3: |
Patrick Anderson, Associate Professor, Communications, UCSD, "Starving Archives" |
February 25: |
Colloquium with Robin Bernstein, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and of History and Literature, Harvard University. "The Erotics of Impossible Gender" |
| March 18: | Key Text 2 with Eng Beng Lim |
April 14: |
Colloquium with Tavia Nyong'o, Associate Professor, Performance Studies, NYU. |
| May 6: | Presentation of papers by second year PhD students |
2009-2010
September 25: |
Discussion with department graduate faculty of research, professional journals, grants and conferences. |
October 2: |
Claire Conceison of Duke University will be speaking on a topic to be decided. |
October 2 and 3: |
Mini-Conference in Honor of Professor John Emigh at Brown. We are compiling a list of theorists, historians and practitioners who will be presenting at this event and who we hope to make available to speak to our graduate students individually and collectively. |
October 16: |
Professor Nicholas Ridout, Head of the Department of Drama, Queen Mary College, University of London. Topic: 'Is this a holiday?' On the time of theatrical work in Godard's La chinoise and Hermanis's Sound of Silence. |
November 11-15: |
The annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), which will be held this year in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Some of you will be attending. It would be good if a graduate colloquium session could be reserved to discuss the conference and for those of you who presented papers to share them with those students who did not attend the conference. This session would ideally occur prior to the end of fall semester. |
December 4: |
Professor Rebecca Schneider, Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, will lead a "key text" session. Topic to be announced. |
February-March 2010: |
As we will be bringing to campus somewhere between three and six finalists for the John Emigh position, the presentations and meetings with graduate students that take place during this period of time will serve as our graduate colloquia. |
March 5: |
Professor Tricia Rose, Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Brown and a specialist in hip-hop music and culture (see the cover story on her in the July/August 2009 edition of the Brown Alumni Monthly) will be our graduate colloquium guest, speaking on: The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why it Matters |
April 23: |
Lindsay Goss, Hans Vermy, and Ryan Hartigan will be presenting papers in a conference format. Lyman room 007, 4:00pm. |
2008-2009
9/19/08
Meet to organize semester and deal with any issues regarding classes, etc. Rebecca will update us on changes in the department as they might affect you, and Ned Quist will present some internet and library research tips.
Announcements: Qualifying papers for Ph.D. students are due by the beginning of next semester. Make appointments to talk to DGS about these papers.
9/26/08
Professor Martin Harries, Department of English, New York University. Topic: “Theater after Film after 1945”
*In early October, graduate students e-mail the DGS with ideas and topics for discussion at the “professional development session” on October 31.
10/10/08
4:00, Lyman 219.
Professor Patricia Ybarra key text session with first-year graduate students on Diana Taylor’s The Archive and the Repertoire
10/15/08
Bread and Puppet Theatre conducting workshops on campus. Times and venues TBA; The Interrrupt Festival is also happening over the course of this week at Brown.
10/17/08
(tent.): 4: 00, Kebab and Curry Restaurant
Informal eating and greeting session with available members of the field faculty and others, Kebab and Curry Restaurant, Thayer St.
10/18/08
Bread and Puppet Theatre rehearsing and performing a circus on the main green (N.B. Other B & P events that will take place in Providence will be announced at a later date.)
10/24/08
Professor Tracy Davis, Theatre and Performance Studies, Northwestern University. Topic: “Repertoire”
10/31/08
Professional development seminar to be focused on issues of concern to the current graduate cohort.
11/5/08-11/9/08
American Society for Theatre Research conference in Boston.
12/5/08
Informal session among grad students to share research issues, trade papers, and/or discuss issues of common concern. Discussion of recent conferences attended by graduate students.
12/12-20
Final Exam Period
2/3/09
Last day to add a course without a fee.
2/6/09
Professor Michal Kolbialka, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Minnesota. Topic: "Representational Practices and Real Abstractions in Eighteenth-Century London: A Prolegomenon to Historiography of the Enlightenment"
3/09
Professor Spencer Golub key text session with first-year graduate students on Hans-Thies Lehmann’s Postdramatic Theatre
3/13-3/15/09
Theatricality Conference at Brown sponsored by German Studies, Music, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, and Theatre and Performance Studies
3/16/09
Professional Development Seminar
4/10/09
Professor Alice Rayner, Stanford University. Title TBA. 4:00 - 6:00pm.
4/15/09
P.A. Skantze and Matthew Fink. Time and Title TBA. Note special day (Wednesday).
4/25/09
Presentations by 2nd year students
5/1/09
Theses and Dissertations Due; deadline for declaring Leave of Absence for the fall.
5/2/09
Alternate date for presentations by 2nd year students/presentations by students completing their dissertations
5/5/09
Last day to drop a course
5/6-15
Final Exam Period