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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2013 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Career Sessions 7:15 AM – 8:15 AM organizer Graduate Mentor Meeting: Meet Your Mentor Koritha Mitchell, Ohio State University Executive Room, Banquet Level #CS 1 | Publish, Don’t Perish: Articles 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Oak Room, Banquet Level Coffee and Breakfast Breads in the Exhibit Hall moderators Gold Room, Banquet Level Alan Ackerman, editor of Modern Drama; David Savran, co-editor of Journal of American Drama and 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Theatre (JADT); E. J. Westlake, an author who has Registration Open published in a range of journals and edited volumes Regency Foyer, Banquet Level description This session will address every aspect of writing and 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM; CLOSED 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM publishing articles in journals devoted to Theatre and Exhibit Hall Open Performance Studies as well as those less focused Gold Room, Banquet Level on the field. Speakers are also prepared to discuss publishing work in essay collections. Please come with 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM questions; there will be plenty of time for conversation. Plenary #3 #CS 2 | Publish, Don’t Perish: Books Regency Ballroom, Banquet Level Far East Room, Banquet Level chair moderators Shannon Rose Riley, San Jose State University Robin Bernstein, author of New York University panelists Press monograph and edited books; LeAnn Fields, Gibson Alessandro Cima, Tshwane University acquisitions editor, University of Michigan Press; of Technology, South Africa Mike Levine, acquisitions editor, Northwestern Future Nostalgias: Theatre, Memory, and Post-apartheid University Press 12 South Africa description Ellen MacKay, Indiana University This session will offer advice for those preparing to write William Henry Ireland and Theatre History’s Oaken Chest and publish their first monograph. Those assembled Kee-Yoon Nahm, Yale University have experience with a range of presses and have seen Rethinking Post-Racism in the Plays of Young Jean Lee the book-publishing process from a number of angles. Please come with questions; there will be plenty of time 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM for conversation. Plenary #4 #CS 3 | Under Pressure: Claiming Success and Regency Ballroom, Banquet Level Sanity in Your Pre-Tenure Years chair Continental Room, Banquet Level Aparna Dharwadker, University of Wisconsin moderators panelists Brian Herrera, tenure-eligible at University of New Marla Carlson, University of Georgia Mexico and now at Princeton University; Kirsten Autism and Affect in Post-Realist Theatre Pullen, recently tenured at Texas A&M University; David Mayer, University of Manchester Ann Folino White, tenure-eligible at Michigan State Trouble at t’Millpond: An Early Film and a Late-Victorian Stage University description Kim Solga, Queen Mary University of London This session brings together scholars who are either on Realism after Neoliberalism the tenure track or recently tenured and willing to share the decisions that have shaped their experiences. They will discuss what has worked well and what has not, offering both advice and caveats—all to help attendees remember that success and sanity go together (or it’s not success). Please come with questions; there will be plenty of time for conversation. #CS 4 | Surviving and Thriving #CS 7 | Meet the Editors of Theatre Survey During the Dissertation French Room, Banquet Level Royal Room, Banquet Level moderators moderators Esther Kim Lee, Editor; Kim Solga, Book Review Catherine Cole, University of California, Berkeley; Editor; Harvey Young, Associate Editor Laura Dougherty, Winthrop University; Ramón description Rivera-Servera, Northwestern University This session is presented by the editors of Theatre description Survey to offer detailed information on the process This session explores strategies for successful of publishing articles and book reviews in the journal. dissertation writing, including choosing committee The editor, the associate editor, and the book review members, nurturing those relationships, and getting editor will address how articles and book reviews are the writing done well. Emphasis will be placed on evaluated and selected for publication. The editors will developing life-long writing and research habits that lay also discuss specific case studies of both successful and the foundation for being a productive writer and scholar. unsuccessful submissions and answer questions from Please come with questions; there will be plenty of time session participants. for conversation. 12:00 PM #CS 5 | Pedagogical Predicaments: Meeting Perform ASTR #4 the Challenge of 21st-Century Teaching Executive Room, Banquet Level See Perform ASTR Menu for location Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent; moderators Melissa Trimingham, University of Kent Patrick Anderson, University of California, San Diego; Lofton Durham, Western Michigan University; Imagining Autism Patricia Herrera, University of Richmond Perform ASTR #5 description See Perform ASTR Menu for location Speakers will offer their best advice about teaching Katherine Mezur, Freelance Performance Scholar today. The session will address graduate and Dance like No One is Looking undergraduate teaching and service learning opportunities as well as the teaching of performance 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM 13 theory, theatre history, and historiography. Please Concurrent Paper Panel #2 come with questions; there will be plenty of time for Oak Room, Banquet Level conversation. chair #CS 6 | Navigating the Changing Job Market: Penny Farfan, University of Calgary Industry Applications panelists Florentine Room, Banquet Level Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, University of Texas, Austin moderators Crowd-Sourcing a Theater Infrastructure in the Post-Ford Ken Cerniglia, Dramaturg and Literary Manager, Era: The Mellon-Funded Austin New Works Theatre Disney Theatrical Group; Rebecca Hewett, Associate Community (ANTWC) Arts Program Specialist, New York City Department Chase Bringardner, Auburn University of Cultural Affairs; Judith Sebesta, Texas Higher Talking Texan in Atlanta: The Best Little Whorehouse Education Coordinating Board, Distance Learning in Texas at Atlanta’s Fabulous Fox Theatre Program Director Charlotte McIvor, National University of Ireland, description Galway This session features accomplished professionals who Mircohistories as Macrotheatre: Dismantling the Irish earned doctoral degrees in Theatre or Performance State (of Performance) Studies and chose a path other than college teaching. Julia A. Walker, Washington University, St. Louis The discussion will help attendees think dynamically Touts, Shills, Puffs and Plants: Modernist Performance about their many career options. Please come with and the Sociological Unconscious questions; there will be plenty of time for conversation. Tours of the Wyly Theatre Offsite – Wyly Theatre WORKING SESSIONS B #B2 | Theatres of War: Performing Big Ideas #B1 | Performance Studies in/from on Big Stages the Global South Royal Room, Banquet Level Continental Room, Banquet Level conveners conveners Jenna L. Kubly, Independent Scholar; Elizabeth Reitz Catherine Cole, University of California, Berkeley; Mullenix, Miami University of Ohio Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; participants Jisha Menon, Stanford University DeAnna Toten Beard, Baylor University participants “Inspiration and Atmosphere”: Theatrical Authenticity and the Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario WWI Soldier in Popular Music for the Broadway Stage Globalizing Local Themes through Indian Drama in Karen Dabney, University of Colorado English “For the Solider, By the Soldier”: Self-generated, Live David Afriyie Donkor, Texas A&M University Entertainment in the U.S. Army from 1990-2013 “Let Me Play My Play”: Popular Performance, Corporate Laura Ferdinand Feldmeyer, Miami University Sponsorship and Artistic Labor in Neoliberal Ghana “To Die Would Be an Awfully Big Adventure”: Or, Laura Edmondson, Dartmouth College Preparing Boys for War: J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, WWI, “Pay Us So We Can Forget”: The Neoliberalization of and the Myth of Manhood Memory in Northern Uganda Megan Geigner, Northwestern University Julius B. Fleming Jr., University of Pennsylvania Performing the Polish American Patriot: Polish Theatre in “Of Time, Space, and Revolution”: Performance and the WWI Chicago Making of Modern Blackness in the Global South Amy Huang, University of Illinois Avishek Ganguly, Rhode Island School of Design Entertaining Performances of Gender: Bronson Figuring Translation in Wole Soyinka’s The Road Howard’s Shenandoah, the Civil War, and Late 19th- century American Gender Roles Ryan Hartigan, Brown University Spinning the Compass: The Legal Construction of the Lisa Jackson-Schebetta, University of Pittsburgh Indigenous Global South Performance, War, and Transnational Refugee Efforts in 14 the Americas Paige Johnson, University of California, Berkeley Buying Islam: Performing New Economies, New Macy Jones, Louisiana State University Economies of Performance Fighting Fascism at Home: The Federal Theatre Project and the Rise of Totalitarianism Before WWII Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, University of Texas, Austin “On’ lati bami dele ba’mi (You must follow me to my David Jortner, Baylor University father’s house)”: Performance, Patriarchy, and Evolving “Dangerous Thoughts” and “Incitement to Violence”: African Gender Constructions Kamishibai, Reformation and Control during the U.S. Occupation of Japan Mwenya Kabwe, Independent Scholar Mobility, Migration and “Migritude” in Afrocartography: Yining Lui, Ohio State University Traces of Places and All Points In Between