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Program: (updated 11/05/08)
Thursday, November 20, 2008
10:00am Coffee/Registration, Royce Hall 306
10:30am -- Opening Remarks, Royce Hall 314
Sue-Ellen Case, (UCLA), Director Center for Performance Studies
Diana Taylor, (NYU), Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
10:45am --Reading, Royce Hall 314
"Of Witch Hunts and Other Furies"
by Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Chair and Professor, Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies
Acclaimed author of "Calligraphy of the Witch: A Novel" and "Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders"
This essay aims to raise consciousess about persecuted women in history, including Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, the so-called witches of New England, and the victims of the Juarez femicides.
11:15 - 1:00pm -- Keynote Panel: "Actions of Tranfer: Women's Performance in the Americas," Royce Hall 314
Moderator: Janelle Reinelt, University of Warick, U.K.
Alicia Arrízon, University of California Riverside, “Queering Transamerican Performance”
Jill Lane, New York University, “Hemispheric ImagiNations”
Ricardo Dominguez, University of California San Diego, “Transborder Disturbances: From Dislocations/Relocations to New Orientations”
Sandra Richards, Northwestern University, “African Diaspora Drama in the Americas”
1:00 - 2:00pm -- Lunch Break (Please refer to program packet for campus eateries)
2:00 - 3:30 -- Panel: "Actions of Transfer," Royce Hall 314
Moderator: Jon Rossini, University of California, Davis
Shannon Steen, University of California, Berkeley, “ReOrientations: California and the Performance of Cultural Location”
Ines Hernandez-Avila, University of California, Davis, “Performing Ri(gh)t(e)s: (W)Riting the Native (In and Out of) Ceremony”
Marcela Fuentes, University of California, Los Angeles, “On the ground: Neoliberal transfers and electronic resistance”
3:30 - 4:00pm -- Break
4:00 - 5:15pm -- Performance: "Choreographing Identities," Royce Hall 314
Featuring: Christine Suarez, Rebecca Pappas, Tashia Paggett, Hana van der kolk
Post Performance interview: Susan Leigh Foster, University of California, Los Angeles
5:15-6:15pm -- Performance: "Soldadera Autogena"
By: Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe, Mexico
Post Performacne Interview: Analola Santana, California State University, Fresno
6:15-7:10pm -- Discussion: "Performing Women," Royce Hall 314
Lead by: Susan Leigh Foster, University of California, Los Angeles
7:10-8:00pm -- Opening Reception, Royce Hall 306 Terrace
Friday, November 21, 2008
10:00 am -- Coffee/Registration, Royce Hall 306
10:30-11:30 am -- Performance: "Pageantry," Royce Hall 314
By: Denise Uyehara
Post Performance Interview: Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine
11:30-12:30 -- Performance: "La Bruja Monja" (The Demon's Nun), Royce Hall 314
By: FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya/Strength of the Mayan Woman) Petrona de la Cruz & Isabel Juarez Espinoza
Post Performance Interview: Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University
12:30 - 1:30pm -- Lunch Break (Please refer to program packet for campus eateries)
1:30 - 2:45pm -- Parallel Sessions
Panel: "In the Americas," Royce Hall 314
Moderator: Tiffany Lopez, University of California, Riverside
Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Re-Possessed Island: Santeria, Gender, and Performance in Revolutionary Cuba"
Carla Melo, Arizona State University, “Trans-Latinas and the Tropical-Grotesque Seductions of Tutti-Frutti Hats and Flaming Hearts”
Dalia Basiouny, CUNY, “Beyond Baklava: The Political Theater of Arab American Women”
Panel: "Women's Performance," Royce Hall 306
Moderator: Jiayun Zhuang, University of California, Los Angeles
Karen Jaime, New York University, “Looking Lovelier and Lighter: Celena Glenn as Black Cracker”
Analola Santana, California State University, Fresno, “A Theatrical Perspective of Ethics and Publicity: Jesusa Rodriguez’s Misa en Los Pinos”
Cristina Rosa, University of California, Los Angeles, “What can this baina do? Black Identity in Samba Motion”
3:00 - 4:00pm -- Performance: "Es bueno mirarse en la propia sombra" (It’s good to look at one’s own shadow), Royce Hall 314
By: Luisa Calcumil, Patagonia
Post Performance Interview: Marcela Fuentes, University of California, Los Angeles
4:00 - 5:00pm -- Discussion: "Women in Community/Activist Performance," Royce Hall 314
Lead by Elaine Aston, University of Lancaster, U.K.
CONFERENCE MOVES TO BROAD ART CENTER
5:30-7:30 -- Interactive Performance and Reception, Broad Center, EDA Room
Open_borders: Improvisation Across Networks, Distance, Timezones
Presented by: Adriene Jenik, University of California, San Diego, and Charley Ten, Inter-media artist
Performers, writers and engaged world citizens participate VIA WEB-BASED VIDEO-CONFERENCE TOOLS in a networked performance event.
Live performances will be mixed and processed with additional imagery and sound to enhance meaning and intensify aesthetic impact.
Catered Reception by Mama's Hot Tamales
Saturday, November 22, 2008
10:00am -- Coffee/Registration, Royce Hall 306
10:30-11:30 -- Performance: "Woman and Water," Royce Hall 314
By: Tanya Lukin-Linklater, First Nation
Post Performance Interview: Jacqueline Shea Murphy, University of California, Riverside
11:30 - 11:50pm -- Presentation: "Revista KARPA: A theater journal surfing cyberspace," Royca Hall 314
Gaston Alzate, California State University, Los Angeles
Paola Marin, California State University, Los Angeles
12:00-1:00 -- Lunch Break, Royce Hall 306 Terrace
Provided by UCLA Center for Performance Studies
1:00-2:00pm -- Performance: "Rosa Cuchillo" (Rose Knife), Royce Hall 314
By: Ana Correa, Teatro Yuyachkani, Peru
Post Performance Interview: Jill Lane, New York University
2:00-3:00pm -- Discussion: "Performance, Politics,and the Nation State," Royce Hall 314
Lead by: Janelle Reinelt, University of Warick, U.K.
With: Jacqueline Shea Murphy, University of California, Riverside
Carla Melo, Arizona State University
3:00-3:30pm -- Break
3:30 - 4:30pm -- Panel: "Group Actions," Royce Hall 314
Moderator: Lynette Hunter, University of California, Davis
Marlene Ramirez-Cancio, Hemipsheric Institute of Performance and Politics, "fulana: latina video & performance collective"
Marcia Bechara and Fernanda Azevedo, Brazil, "Carne (Flesh/Meat) - Gender Violence,Performance & Brazilian Women"
Maysa Lepique and Daniele Ricieri, Brazil, "Atuadoras; Performative Actions for Brazilian Women"
4:30-6:00 -- Roundtable: "Queer Performance in the Americas," Royce Hall 314
Lead by: David Roman, University of Southern California
With: Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sara Wolf, University of California, Los Angeles
Marcela Fuentes, University of California, Los Angeles
6:00 - 7:00pm -- Reception, Royce 306 Terrace
CONFERENCE MOVES TO MACGOWAN
7:30pm --Performance: "The Barber of East L.A." Macgowan 1330
By: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan
Post Performance Interview: Karen Tongson, University of Southern California
Sunday, November 23, 2008
3:00pm -- Concluding Celebration: "El Maíz," LATC
By: Jesusa Rodriguez and Liliana Felipe
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