DIS/PLACEMENTS: PERFORMANCE, MOVEMENT, AND RESISTANCE

 

UCSB DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AND DANCE’S

3RD ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

 

Saturday, May 4, 2019

9 am - 4 pm

 

Old Ballet Studio, HSSB 1151

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Every day, countless people around the globe leave their communities and nations to seek new homes. The struggle of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and victims of removal is critical, and future disasters of environmental and ecological scales threaten to displace more people in the decades to come. At the same time, revolutionary technologies are transforming the ways we share knowledge and information. At this crucial moment, our considerations of the notion of place—and therefore, what it means to be displaced—is in flux. This graduate symposium engages aesthetic and everyday performance as a means to explore the categorization and movement of people, objects, ideas, and information.

 

 

9:00am       Welcome

9:15am       First Panel - Displaced: Space

                   Anna Holman (Theater & Dance, UCSB)

                   Sevi Bayraktar (World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA)

                   Cloe Gentile (Music/Musicology, UCSB)

10:45am     Second Panel - Displaced: Identity

                   Tiffany Lytle (Theater & Dance, UCSB)

                   Miya Shaffer (World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA)

                   Heena Yoon (Music, UCSB)

12:00pm     Lunch

1:15pm       Third Panel - Displaced: Materiality

                   Dave Mancini (Theater & Dance, UCSB)

                   Thaddeus Nagey (Theater Arts, CSUN)

2:25pm       Keynote: Dr. Emily Roxworthy, Associate Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, UCSD

3:25pm       Closing remarks