The Women & Theatre Program

In association with ATHE and co-sponsored in part by Religion & Theatre

Presents:

Global Feminisms: Transgenerational and Transnational Dialogues; Revisiting Roots and Forging Futures

August 10, 2011

Chicago Dramatists

1105 West Chicago Avenue Morning Schedule o Carmela Lanza-Weil, playwright and creator of Bury the Hatchet, a piece about forgiveness 1 9:00-9:30 – Check-in/Registration Mainstage – (Workshop)Theory, Performance, Action; An Arts Based Civic Dialogue on Gender and Performance Past, Present 9:30-11:00 – Concurrent Sessions #1 and Future Conference Room A – Graduate Student Working Session o Conveners: Latrelle Bright, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign & AnnMarie T. Saunders, University of Maryland- Moderator: Heidi Schmidt, University of Colorado-Boulder  Emily A. Rollie, University of Missouri-Columbia College Park "In the Heart of America, In the Heart of the World: Naomi Wallace's This hands on workshop examines the usefulness of (auto)biographic Feminist Transnational Critique of Contemporary War" performance as a tool for understanding the varying roles women  Karen Fielder, University of Wyoming embody/have embodies, and will create dialogue around issues of "Art as Resistance: Transcoding La Malinche as Female Masculine Historical gender in performance through examining performance of the self Figure and Archetype Through the Literary Works of Cherrie Moraga and through a series of exercises as well as a discussion of gender in Emma Perez" performance and the possibilities for performance as pedagogy.  Jiangyue Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Women Stage Directors in China: Feminism, Cultural Memory and Politics of Embodiment" * * *  Christina Lambert, University of Calgary "Subverting Authority in the Medical Archive: Feminist History Plays Re- 11:00-12:30 –Reading of Student Jane Chambers Award Imagine the 'Hysterical Woman'" Winning Play: The Friendship of Her Thighs by Martyna Mojak,  Lynn Deboeck, University of Kansas Yale University. (Mainstage) "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle: Maternal Gender Subversion in The Spirit of '76" * * *

Conference Room B – Art as Community Making Afternoon/Evening Schedule

o Dr. Nadja Masura, (convener); Virtual Performance Collective, creator of 12:30-1:30 – LUNCH Remembering Harmony, a community-based site-specific performance 1:30--3:00 – Concurrent Sessions #2 o Tavia LaFollette, Art Up and Artists-in-Residence at Carnegie Mellon, creator of The Firefly Tunnel Project, an autoethnographic look at the Conference Room A: – “50/50 in 2020: Producing Women’s Work in exchange between Egypt & the US during Egypt’s fight for Chicago; Initiatives, Obstacles, Objectives” democracy o Susan Jonas, Moderator; 50/50 in 2020 and Ithaca University Participants: o Arlene D. Callahan, University Wisconsin, Madison exploring Burkinabe o Jennifer Adams, Associate Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre o Tony Adams, Artistic Director, Halcyon Theatre o Tara Mallen, Artistic Director, Rivendell Theatre o Lisa Schlesinger – Playwright, Head of playwriting at Columbia an 18th century abolitionist and early feminist; Marguerite Emery College Vallette, a 19th century writer who presented herself as Monsieur o Ann Filmer, Artistic Director , 16th Street Theatre 2 Rachilde, a man of letters; and Yasmina Reza, the contemporary o Maya Roth, Georgetown University, Coordinator Jane Chambers award-winning writer Playwriting Contest 3 who claims to write "as a man." Each of these women worked as a playwright in a male-dominated profession, and navigated her own Conference Room B: – (Panel) “Revisiting Roots and Forging ideas about activism, feminism and conformity through her plays. The participants in the roundtable will present on the themes, style and Futures: Feminist Approaches” production history of the playwrights, followed by a staged reading of o Natka Bianchini, Loyola University, MD “Lysistrata’s Gendered a brief scene from each playwright's work. Translations: Revisiting Aristophanes in the 21st Century” 3:00-4:30 – Concurrent Sessions #3 o Emily Klein, Birmingham-Southern College, “ Hysterical Refusals: Comic Bodies in Aristophanes Lysistrata” Conference Room A: (Panel) “Feminist Activism in Academia: Staging and Performing Dissent” o William Van Watson, University of Arizona, “Don Juan from Mozart to Maraini.” o Norma Bowles, Fringe Benefits founding Artistic Director

Mainstage-(Performance/Panel): Tear it Up and Burn it Down; o Jill Dolan, Princeton University “Performing Women’s/Female/Feminist/Feminine Anger—A Reconsideration of Feminisms Remainders and How Women o Kathleen Juhl, Southwestern University Should be Mad and Not Mad” o Ellen Maycock, Washington & Lee University o Deb Margolin, Yale University o Sara Warner, Cornell University o Kimberly Dark, Artist, Activist; www.kimberlydark.com

o Domnica Radulescu, Washington & Lee University o Domnica Radulescu (Convener) Washington & Lee University

Conference Room B-Interdisciplinary Discussion Roundtable with Downstairs A: (Roundtable/Panel) “French Women Playwrights; Religion & Theatre and Women & Theatre Activism, Feminism, and Conformity” “ Gender and Religion on the Page, Stage, and Between Nations,” o Teresa Stankiewicz, University of Missouri-Columbia o Amanda Giguere, University of Colorado, Boulder o Claire Maria Chambers (Convener, R&T) University of California Davis o Laura Nelson, University of Missouri-Columbia

This roundtable session focuses on the distinct voices of three French o Tavia LaFollette, Artist in Residence, Carnegie Mellon women dramatists from three different centuries: Olympe de Gouges, University o Kimberly Dark, Cal State San Marcos 8:40-9:30 –Artists, Activists, Scholars Networking

o Megan Sandborne-Jones, Brigham Young University o Wine & Cheese reception co-hosted by Religion & Theatre (moderator) 5 4

Mainstage: (Performance) Not Just Another Pretty Face: A Retrospective Special Thanks to: o Janice Perry, Teaching Artist, University of Vermont will perform a retrospective presentation of an Chicago Dramatists: extensive body of queer/feminist/activist performance Brian Loevner, Stacey High, Michael Brandt and the rest of the integrating live performance with documentary clips staff. taken from 30 years of touring in the US and Europe www.janiceperry.com Religion and Theatre and Claire Maria Chambers Susan Jonas

ATHE: Nancy Erickson & Shaun Franklin-Sewell 4:30—5:30 – Award Presentation & Keynote Address

o Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jill Dolan, Princeton University: Cecelia Aragon, Joan Lipkin, Maria Beach, Sara Warner and the many others WTP members who helped bring this “Ruminations for the Next Generation of Feminist Spectators.” conference to fruition

5:40-6:45—DINNER

7:00-8:15 – Keynote Performance (Mainstage)

Unveiled Written and performed by Rohina Malik

8:15-8:40 – Talkback

o Moderated by Ann Filmer, original director of Unveiled and Artistic Director of Chicago’s 16th Street Theatre