(Re)making (Re)presentation Conference Program
5.3.2010
8:30-9:15 Registration Green Room [Room 3111]
9:15-11:00 am Panel Sessions 1
Authorship and Embodied Performance Room 5414
Moderator: Jessica Del Vecchio
Mina Choi (The Ohio State University)
“Women Playwrights’ Presentation of Violence in the Re-visions of the Greek Dramas: Marina Carr’s By the Bog of Cats and Portia Coughlan
Karinne Keithley (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Ontological Cover Acts: Anti-Quotation in the Work of Young Jean Lee and Miguel Gutierrez
Laura Hydak, (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Pasión de un Pueblo: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in Iztapalapa, Mexico
“Child’s Play”: Myths, Comics, Puppets, and Child Subjects Room 5489
Moderator: Dan Venning
Noelia Diaz (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Violence and Intertextuality in The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh and Marta Stutz by Javier Daulte
Stefan Blaeske (University of Vienna)
Re-enactment and Re-presentation? Performing ‘KAMP’
Daniella Vinitski (Colorado University, Boulder)
The Naming of Ghost: Distance and the Formation of Meaning in Amiri Baraka’s The Dutchman
Donatella Galella (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Staging Superman: Adapting the Superhero, the Original Broadway Musical, and the Flop Narrative
The Visual Room 8301
Moderator: Jake Hooker
Michael Krahel (College of New Jersey)
‘A Note on Subtitles’: Projected Text and a Multiplicity of Experience in Viewing Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House
Megan Hammer (Tufts University)
The Making of a Modern Woman, or How the Robots Hijacked Hedda Gabbler
Francesca Martinez Tagliavia (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
“Blob: The Power of Visual Archive Against Politics of Imagination”
Karilynn Ming Ho (Simon Fraser University)
Towards the Inauthentic Copy
Political Engagement and the Formation of Community Through Performance Room 8304
Moderator: Hillary Miller
Jamie Matty (Boston College)
Arendt and Metaphysical Guilt: Political Performative Violence in Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes
Lina Zigelyte (Utrecht University)
Staging the Real Five Meters Below the Ground: Theatricality in a Soviet Bunker
Marco Deseriis (New York University)
Black Square on Red Square: A Reexamination of Irwin’s Retroprinciple
Elisa Legon (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Staging the National Hero: Arena Conta Tiradentes
11:15am-1:00pm Panel Sessions 2
Authorial Intent Room 5414
Moderator: Kevin Byrne
Aoise Stratford (Cornell University)
Gothic Tales Reimagined
Dan Venning (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
‘To Lose a Thing that None but Fools Would Keep’: The Elimination of ‘set-piece’ Monologues in Restoration Adaptations of Shakespeare
Christina Katopodis (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Speaking from One and Many Voices, Harriet Jacobs’ A Slave Girl Performance
Cordelia Zukerman (University of Michigan)
Reconstructing What’s Lost: The Intersection of Editing and Adaptation in Shakespeare and Middleton’s Macbeth
Mediation in Representation: Film, Painting, and New Media Room 5489
Moderator: Sascha Just
Rebecca Brantley (University System of Georgia)
Behind the Masks of Gods: The Re-Staged Self in Caravaggio and Cindy Sherman
Andrew Iliadis (Ryerson University and York University)
A Nation Talking to Itself: Psychoanalytic Critiques of Contemporary Photojournalism in the Middle East
Georgia Young (Texas State University)
Breaking the Stage: von Trier (Re)makes Brecht for the Cinema
Lisa Reinke (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Filtering Video Games through Puppetry and Comic Books Charts
Race, Gender, and Performing Bodies Room 8301
Moderator: Catherine Young
Molly Hatcher (University of Michigan)
Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus: Transforming History
Joseph Talarico (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Shirley Q. Liquor and the Uncomfortable Position of Race in Queer Performance
Danielle Sanfilippo (Boston College)
Somewhat Stiff Between the Legs: A Psychoanalytic Reading of the Politics of Gender and Cross-Dressing in The Roaring Girl.
To (Re)member: The Body in Performance and Spectatorship Room 8304
Moderator: Bethany Holmstrom
Anne Hege (Princeton University)
Sympathetic Vibrations: Connecting with the Audience through Images of the Body
Coco Roberge and Elliot Gordon Mercer (New York University)
History as Practice: Reinventing Site-Specific Performance from the 1960s and 70s
Ben Spatz (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Technique and Event: Toward an Epistemology of Embodied Knowledge
1:00-1:45 pm LUNCH Green Room [3111]
2:00-3:30pm Plenary Session Martin E. Segal Center [1st floor]
3:45-5:30pm Panel Sessions 3
Reading Plays: Performance and (Re)creation Room 8304
Moderator: Professor Judith Milhous
Zachary Ross (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Trigorin’s Notebook: Tennessee Williams, Anton Chekov, and Soviet Sexual Bigotry
Dave Peterson (University of Pittsburgh)
Reconstructing Performance Authority at Shakespeare’s Globe
Lance Mekeel (Bowling Green State University)
Voicing the Silenced: As[a/o]pting Plautus for a Contemporary Community of Readers
Andrew Friedman (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Waking a Postcolonial Silence: Playing Gombrowics’s Operetta Across Borders
Constructing Culture: “Lows,” “Middles,” and “Elites” Room 8301
Moderator: Ben Spatz
Julia Goldstein (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
‘Saving the Day’ The Confused Cultural Capital of Hip Hop Theatre
Sarah Kozinn (New York University)
Remaking Law: Judge TV and the Accidental Avant-Garde
Christopher Martin (University of Maryland, College Park)
A Constellation of Cakewalks
Rick DesRochers (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
The Tradition of Canovacci and its Legacy in Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, and Larry David: Where is the Author?
Managing Risk: Safety, Copyright, and Investors Room 5489
Moderator: Christopher Silsby
Dan Boulos (Brooklyn College)
The Era of Ragtime in the Age of Disney
Robert Woods (University of Oklahoma)
Pillage this Play! Do Artistic Re-Presentations Clash with a Playwright’s Copyright?
Josh Jeffries (University of Georgia)
Disgust Reaction and Startle Effect: Responsibility in Representation