CAUSE & AFFECT: INCITING CHANGE THROUGH PERFORMANCE

UCSB DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AND DANCE’S 2ND ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM

Saturday, May 5th, 2018

9 am - 4 pm

Old Ballet Studio, HSSB 1151

University of California, Santa Barbara

In this age of hyperconnectivity, complex material, political, social, and economic apparatuses mutually influence and shape negotiations between daily life, institutions, and networks themselves. This graduate symposium will explore the relationality between affect and effect, considering broadly how performance affects change through encounter. 

Conference schedule

9:00 AM       Welcome

9:15 AM       Keynote: Shannon Jackson - Performance and Public (Re) Assembly

10:30 AM     First Panel - Body and Aesthetics

                    Marisa Plasencia (Theater & Dance, UCSB) & Maribel Plasencia (Clinical Psychology, Rutgers)

                    Cole Remmen (Theater & Dance, UCSB)

                    C.S. (Theater Studies, CSUN)

                    Jeremy Hanes (Religious Studies, UCSB)

12:00 PM    Lunch Break

1:00 PM      Second Panel - Mobilization

                   Tara Brandel (Dramatic Arts, UC Davis)

                   Talin Abadiandogidargh (CSUN)

                   Elvis Josue Bendana Rivas (Performance Studies, Texas A&M)

2:30 PM      Third Panel - Identity Optics

                   Juan Carlos Osorio (Universidad del Valle, Colombia)

                   Nazli Azergun (Global Studies, UCSB)

                   Justin Streichman (UC Davis)

3:45 PM      Closing remarks 

4:30 PM      Particle Collider