Colloquium Series - Past Years
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