Northwestern University Hosts 3rd Annual Black Performance Theory Conference
Annenberg Hall G02 (Friday, May 18)
Louis Hall 119 (Saturday, May 19)
Hosted by Jennifer Brody, E. Patrick Johnson, and Harvey Young, convened with Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Schedule
Friday, May 18, Annenberg Hall, Room G02
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast and Welcome
9:00 – 9:30 Opening Remarks
Tommy DeFrantz/E. Patrick Johnson
9:30 – 10:15 “How Quare is Noah’s Arc?”
Brandi Catanese/Jeffrey McCune
10:30 – 11:15 In the Break
Tommy DeFrantz/Omi Osum Olomo
11:15 – 12:00 Getting Mother’s Body
Rashida Braggs/Soyica Diggs
12:15 – 1:00 Globalization and Race
Nicole Castor/Xavior Livermon
1:00 – 2:30 Lunch
Allen Center
3:00 – 3:45 Bodies in Dissent
Jennifer Brody/Tavia Nyong’o/Koritha Mitchell
3:45 – 4:30 Losing My Mother
Hershini Young
4:30 – 5:00 Witnesses Respond
7:00 – 9:30 Dinner with Works in Progress (2 minute session)
Gio Restaurant
10:00 Caberet Performance
Saturday, May 19, Louis Hall, Room 119
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 – 10:15 The Fabulous Sylvester
E. Patrick Johnson/Jason King
10:30 – 11:15 Cultural Formations of Urban Dance in Rize
Marlon Bailey/Stephanie Batiste
11:15 - 12:00 Dreamgirls
Tamara Roberts/Nia Witherspoon
12:00 – 12:45 Caroline Hao, "On Representing Others: Intellectuals, Pedagogy, and the Uses of Error."
Anna Bean/Nadine George
12:45 – 2:00 Lunch (Graduate Student Networking) Room 118
2:00 – 2:45 “Queering the Absent Potential & Desire in the Bodies of August Wilson and Jessye Norman”
Pam Booker/Venus Opal Reese
2:45 – 3:30 "Volatile Bodies"
Melissa Blanco/Richard Green/Anna Scott
3:30 – 4:00 Witnesses Respond
4:15 – 5:00 Discussion Session: Tenure, Promotion, Publishing, etc.
5:00 – Until Dinner on your own (consult list); Chicago Theater (consult list)
Sunday, May 20, Orrington Hotel Globe Café
9:30 – 11:00 Buffet Breakfast/Book Project Discussion
Conference Participants
Marlon M. Bailey
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Stephanie Batiste
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Annemarie Bean
Assistant Professor, Williams College
Melissa Blanco
Ph.D., UC Riverside
Pamela Booker
Artist, Advisor, Parsons School of Design
Rashida Braggs
Humanities Fellow, Stanford University
Jennifer D. Brody
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Brandi Catanese
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Professor, MIT
Nicole Castor
Assistant Professor, Duke University
Soyica Diggs
Humanities Fellow, Stanford University/
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Nadine George-Graves
Associate Professor, UC San Diego
Richard C. Green III
Ph.D. Student, New York University
E. Patrick Johnson
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Omi Osun Olomo/Joni Lee Jones
Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Jason King
Artistic Director, Clive Davis Recorded Music, NYU
Xavier Livermon
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNC Chapel Hill
Jeffrey Q. McCune,Jr.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester
Koritha Mitchell
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
Tavia Nyong’o
Assistant Professor, New York University
Venus Opal Reese
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas
Anna Beatrice Scott
Assistant Professor, UC Riverside
Hershini Bhana Young
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo
GRADUATE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS
Tamara Roberts
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Nia Witherspoon
Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
WITNESSES
Mark Broomfield
Ph.D. Student, UC Riverside
Selena Brown
Ph.D. Student, Brown University
La Marr J. Bruce
Ph.D. Student, Yale University
Esailama Diouf
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Grace Jun
Ph.D. Student, UC San Diego
Christina Knight
Ph.D. Student, Harvard University
Mario LaMothe
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Cassandra Lord
Ph.D Student, University of Toronto
Melanie Maldonado
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Uri Gervase McMillan
Ph.D. Student, Yale University
Frank Leon Roberts
Ph.D. Student, New York University
Connie Rapoo
Ph.D. Student, UCLA
Rashida Shaw
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Shante Smalls
Ph.D. Student, New York University
Jennifer Tyburczy
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Mecca Zabriskie
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Aimee Zygmonski
Ph.D. Student, UC San Diego
The Black Performance Theory working group is an interdisciplinary colloquium and discussion group that assembles a small group of scholar/practitioners working with and through performance to investigate and articulate black performance theory. The establishment of this working group presents us with a unique opportunity to gather and discuss issues, paradigms, and approaches to theorizing black performance. As we make valuable connections as a community of scholars, we will work towards addressing questions, such as: What is a black sensibility? What is black performance? What is black music? What is black dance? What is black oratory? In the 21st century, what is a black aesthetic? This working group continues a conversation begun in 1998 at Duke University, at the one-day conference “Reading, Writing, and Representin’: Performance and the Subjects of Race” curated by Richard C. Green. The bulk of the working group time is devoted to discussion, with the aim of raising more questions and hopefully establishing frames for black performance critique and analysis.
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