CONFERENCE PROGRAM Thursday, April 7, 2011 6:30-9:00 pm Opening Reception at the Greensboro Historical Museum Helene Vosters, Thursday, April 7 installment of Impact Afghanistan War
Donna Baldwin-Bradby and students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, excerpts from Suzan-Lori Parks' The American Play
7:30 pm
Welcome and Introduction: Robert C. Hansen, Associate Dean,
College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG
KEYNOTE: Randy Martin
"Contested Publics and the Kinesthetics of Memory"
******************************************************* Friday, April 8, 2011
8:00-9:45 Intermediate Dance Class taught by members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company, Dance Theatre, Dance Building. Observers welcome, but limited to the first
50 to arrive.
8:30-9:00 Coffee - Music Building Recital Hall Lobby
9:00-6:00 Continuous showings of digital media, Music 235 (9:00-11:00), Music 223 (1:30-6:00)
Helene Vosters, Friday, April 8 installment of Impact Afghanistan War
10:00-11:45 Advanced Dance Class taught by members of the Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Dance Theatre, Dance Building. Observers welcome, but limited to the first
50 to arrive. Session I Negotiations of Legacy - Music 223 9:00-10:15 Moderator: James Revell Carr, Ethnomusicology, UNCG
Alexander, Bryant Keith - "Standing in the Wake: A Performative Exercise of Critical Memory
in/as Eulogy"
Douglas, Gavin - "Policies for Forgetting, Protests for Remembrance: Music and
the Negotiation of History in Burma/Myanmar"
Guthrie, Tom - "Negotiating Identity and Difference Through Public History and Art in
New Mexico"
The Materiality of Spectacle - Music 226
Moderator: Sarah Cervenak, Women's and Gender Studies and African American Studies, UNCG
Samli, Ayla - "Tight Pants, Big Hair, and Gem Sweaters: Leslie Hall's Bedazzling of Midwestern Memories with Hip Hop" Canino, Andrew - "Spectaculus Romanis" Salehi, Mitra - "Steampunk: What to Wear to the Future that Never Was, Or 'We Other, Other Victorians'"
Private Memory and Public Discourse in Bill T. Jones’s Chapel/Chapter: Empathy, Medium and Experience - Music 233
Moderator: Jill Green, Dance and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Foshay, Elisa - "The Media and Messages of Chapel/Chapter"
Bramham, Lindsey - "Experiencing Chapel/ Chapter" Murphy, Denise -"Troubling Empathy Through Bill T. Jones's Chapel/Chapter"
Session II Reconstituting Institutional Memories - Music 223 10:30-11:45 Moderator: Shira Schwartz, York University
Bouchard, Danielle - "Democracy, Violence, and the University's Public"
Lavender, Larry - "The Presence and Memory of Sociographic and Undifferentiated Performances" Hart, Carrie - "Framing the Gaze: Feminist Spectatorship in WGS Classrooms"
Unsettling Memories: Feminism in Theatre - Music 226
Moderator: Lauren Zawistowski, Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University
Muchmore, Kate - "Destabilizing Gender Roles in Early American Drama"
Robinson, Mary - "Going Bananas: The Masked Monkey Business of Guerilla Girls on Tour" Woodworth, Christine - "Safe on the Other Side Here: Sarah Kane and the Dea(r)th of Feminism"
Manifesting Memories - Music 233
Moderator: Gwen Hunnicutt, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Jordan, Amy - "'Honour the Burnt Cork, be a Vaudeville Man'; Performing the American
Dystopia in John Berryman's Dream Songs"
Vosters, Helene - "Towards a Poetics of Shared Vulnerability: Re-imagining Canadian
Military Memory" Keathley, Elizabeth - "Music, Gender, Cinema, and the History of the Mexican
Revolution"
Session III The Naked Truth: Audrey Munson Moves Into the Light - Music 223
12:00-1:15 Moderator: Sue Stinson, Dance, UNCG
Bouchard, Kimberley A. - " Directing Audrey Munson Into the Light" Collen, Robin - "Choreographing Audrey Munson Into the Light" Kuracina, Elaine - "Writing Audrey Munson Into the Light"
Between Africa and Hollywood: Constructions of African Other in Film Music -Music 226
Moderator: Joan Titus, Musicology, UNCG
Woodward, Rachyl - "The Constant Gardener: The Role of Film Music to Promote Social
Justice in Developing Countries"
Hock, Cat Keen - "Film Scoring and the Egyptian Other: Considering the Role of Music in
the Theatic Substructure of the 1963 Epic Film Cleopatra"
Davis, Justin - "Disney Genesis: Musical Characterization, Suspension of Disbelief and
Misrepresentation of the Cultural Other in The Lion King"
Embodied Memorializations Part II: Rehearsing Resistance - Music 233
Moderator: Cybelle McFadden, Romance Languages, Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Oliviero, Katie - "Embodied Memory as Resistance?:The Cultural and Political Potentials of Public Memory and Directives to 'Never Forget'" Schwartz Shira - "Ritual as Rehearsal: Mitkvah practices in Orthodox Communities" Quaye, Tiffany - "The Dirt is Still Bloody: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Eradication of Morningside Homes"
Session IV Processors / Processes of Creation - Music 223
1:30-2:45 Moderator: Tricia Zweier, Kinesiology, UNCG
Eden, Xandra - "Mutable Memory: Explorations of Internal and External Memory in Contemporary Visual Art"
Billew, Slade - "Re-membering Emotion Memory: Defining the Role of Affective Memory in Actor Training in Light of Cognitive Neuroscience" Gray, Patricia - "Collaboration in the Moment and its Memory: Instincts for Culture Creation"
Commemorations of Dislocation and Disaster - Music 224
Moderator:Gwen Hunnicutt, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Jaksch, Helen - "The Empty Chair is Not So Empty: Investigating the Absence-Presence of Ghosts in Post-Katrina New Orleans" Devgan, Shruti - "Locating Community in Dislocation: Gendered Commemoration Amongst the Sikh Diaspora in the United States" Carr, James Revell - "Public Memory and the Digitization of the Disaster Song"
Memory: Private and Public - Music 226
Moderator: Katie Oliviero, Emory University
Stinson, Sue - "Private Questioning and Public Memory: Self-reflexive Scholarship in
Dance" Morris, Anne - "Negotiating the 'Ghost': A Choreographer's Reflection on Shared Memory" Jew, Kimberly - "Putting a Small Town on Stage: Creating Public Art out of Local Letters to the Editor"
Session V Introduction: Elizabeth Keathley, Historical Musicology and Women's and Gender
3:00-4:15 Studies, UNCG, Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall
KEYNOTE: Eileen M. Hayes, "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight: Music and the
Long Path to Equality"
Session VI Historical Boundaries: A Film Installation - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall 4:30-6:00 Introduction: Gwen Hunnicutt, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Hana Iverson and Burkhard Von Harder - "Historical Boundaries: Navigating the Scar" Readings, Inscriptions, and Compositions of Racial Memory - Music 223
Moderator: Sarah Daynes, Sociology, UNCG
Ozust, Kelly - "The Emperor Jones: Reading Oppression in Movement" Hammond, Lisa -"Inscribing Racial Memory: Textiles in Contemporary Southern
Literature"
Lamb, Earnest - "Up from Slavery: The Trope of Racial Progress in the Works of African
American Composers"
Unmooring Memories: Reinvention, Reappropriation, and Resistance - Music 224
Moderator: Tiffany Quaye, History, UNCG and NC A&T State University
Balzano, Wanda - "Abigail Child and the Art of Public Memory" Zawistowski, Lauren - "From Exotic to Erotic: American Culture's Unrelenting
Memory of Early Mormon Polygamy"
Cervenak, Sarah - "Revelations in the Cast Off: The Black Radical Art of Leonardo
Drew"
Lecture -Performance - Music 111
Introduction: Tricia Zweier, Kinesiology, UNCG
Paul Stewart: Piano Ragtime, its characteristics, sources and influences
6:30-7:45 RECEPTION AND BOOKSIGNING, LOWER LOBBY, AYCOCK AUDITORIUM
Welcome, Dean John Deal, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
Authors: Deborah Geis and Eileen M. Hayes
Remarks: Bill T. Jones
8:00 pm Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company Performance Serenade/The Proposition
Post-performance discussion with Bill T. Jones and Company
******************************************************* Saturday, April 9, 2011
8:30-9:00 Coffee - Music Building Recital Hall Lobby
9:00-6:00 Continuous showings of digital media - Music 233 (9:00-6:00)
Helene Vosters, Saturday, April 9 installment of Impact Afghanistan War
Session I Lecture Performance - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall
9:00-10:15 Introductions: Drew Barker, Triad Stage
Janice Perry: Being Derrida (9-9:35)
Susan Taylor Lennon: Gardening by Moonlight: Moving through Memory into Memoir (9:40-10:15)
Locating Memory in Space and Place - Music 223
Moderator: Ayla Samli, Rice University
Pittman, Elizabeth - "The Space of Memory and Nation in Amiri Baraka's Slave Ship" Iverson, Hana - "Recollection and Restoration: View from the Balcony" Goldstein Julia - "'Yiddish Shikse' in the Yiddish Rialto: The Neighborhood Playhouse, the Little Theatre Movement, and the Aestheticization of Cultural Otherness"
Reframing Cultural Memory from the Borders and the Margins - Music 224
Moderator: Veronica Grossi, Romance Languages, UNCG
Geis, Deborah - "The Last Black Man’s Fried Chicken: Food and Memory in Suzan-Lori Parks and Jeff Henderson" Carot, Kathleen - "Transcribing Memory at the Border: Kita Y Fernanda and the Director as Outsider" Rinner, Susanne - "Screaming Silence: Remembering and Forgetting Race in Volker Schlondorff's The Legend of Rita"
Troubling Memory in Theatre and Music - Music 226
Moderator: Petagay Letren, Dance, UNCG
Toomey, Margaret - "The Art of Feminist Design: Troubling the Traditions of Theatrical Design"
Allen, Veronica - "La Musica y La Mujer: The Connection Between Drugs, Women and Narcocorridos in Mexico"
Van Meter, Derrick - "The Aesthetic Development of Eugene Lee: A Study in
Shrinkage"
Lecture Performance - Music 110
Moderator: Beth Walker, Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Marie Alonzo Snyder: Ladies Styling and Men’s shines: sexuality and surrendering
the body in Latin salsa (9-9:35)
Bonnie Morris: Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor (9:40 10:15)
Informal showings and discussions with artists, Dance Theatre (9-12)
Introductions and Discussion: Larry Lavender, Dance, UNCG
Emily J. Morgan: Braced (2) Melissa Croushorn: “I’m from a Small Town in Southwestern Virginia” J. Michael Bestul: The Latter-Day Adventures of Romulus and Remus Tori Lawrence, Source Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp: Moving Into Action
Session II Staged Reading – Lecture/Performance - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall 10:30-11:45 Introductions: Mitra Salehi, independent artist/scholar, Greensboro, NC
Christine Toy Johnson: Tanforan, a staged reading of a short play (10:30-11:05)
Margo Lukens & William Yellow Robe: Memory and Amnesia: Consumer Culture Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry (11:10-11:45)
Memorializing Historic Conflicts - Music 223
Moderator: Julia Goldstein, CUNY Graduate Center
Bennett, Rachel - "Staging Auschwitz: Transforming Personal Trauma into Public Memory" Brizzell-Bates, Cynthia - "The Astor Place Riot and Modern Memory" Moore, Isabell - "Subversives to Heroes: Race, Gender, Citizenship, Media and Memory in Representations of the Greensboro Sit-Ins, 1960-1980"
Contested Memories in Performance - Music 224
Moderator: Gwen Hunnicutt, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Johnson, John-David - "The Stage Irishman as Hate Speech: Approaches to
Linguistic Injury in Irish Theatre"
Schultz, Marianne- "See What the Trained Maori Can Do: Cultural Hybridity, the
Rev.Frederick Augustus Bennett and the 1908 tour of the Rotorua Maori
Entertainers."
Holdridge, Jeff - "Land Under Wave: Memory and Myth in Irish Literature"
Excavating Performative Memories - Music 226
Moderator: B Slade Billew, Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University
Vohwinkel, Kaitlyn - "Lilian Hellman: Liar or Liberator of the Truth"
Blackston, Dylan McCarthy - "Not What You See and Hear: Ez Heeb Performance
Analysis" Barker, Drew - "Finding the Iguana in the Menagerie: Memory within Play and Playwright Lecture/Performance - Music, Organ Hall
Introduction: Carole Lindsey-Potter, Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Steve Willis and Beth Ritson - Dorothy Kilgallen: A One-Woman Play in Progress
Workshop - Music 110
Introduction: Peggy Letren, Dance, UNCG
Shannon Wong Lerner - "No One Hurts You More Than S/Mother': Luce Iragaray and
the Hysterical Diva"
Performance - Dance Studio 322
Moderator: Sue Stinson, Dance, UNCG
Jan Bolwell- Here's Hilda!
11:45-1:30 Performance-Dance Project
Caitlin M. Spencer: "re-memorying with you, by myself: presence-ing memories in public." Music Building hallway. Initial performance 11:45-1:30, with ongoing installation available as site of memories of the conference in public, for/by/with any person of the public.
Session III Video Documentary and Solo Performance - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall 12:00-1:15 Introductions: Michael Frierson, Media Studies, UNCG
Mary Lopez - Honest, Abe (12-12:35)
Matthew Farmer: Millstones (12:40-1:15)
The Scottsboro Boys: A Comparative and Collective Analysis of the Recent Broadway Musical Considering Genre, Creation, and Reception - Music 223
Moderator: Bob Hansen, Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG
Gelles, Barrie - "Telling the Story their Way: The Role of Authorship, Devices, and Constructs in Broadway Musicals and The Scottsboro Boys" Breaux, Shane - "Reconstruction and Subversion on Broadway with The Scottsboro Boys" Frederich, Allison - "The Scottsboro Boys as Modern Lynching Play"
Public in Performance / Performance in Public - Music 224
Moderator:
Sabo, Linda - "Romanticism versus Realism or choosing how things should be over the way they are" Powell, Allison - "The People's Theatre: The Living Newspaper and Political Community Theatre" LoMonaco, Marti - "History, Memory, and the Performing Public"
Embodied Memorializations II: Lenses of Inquiry - Music 226
Moderator: Carole Lindsey-Potter, Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Brookoff, Matthew - "(Re)contructing History: Reading Petipa through Balanchine" Roberts, Andrea - "From the Village to the Opera House: A Personal Dance Journey Through the World of the Russian Peasant Wedding" Alterowitz, Gretchen - "Ballet Bodies/Public Bodies: Vision of an Ideal"
Performance Lecture - Music 110
Introduction: Petagay Letren, Dance, UNCG
Bonnie Eckard and Maria Porter: "Crafting Public Memory I: The Space Inside"
Lecture-Recital - Music, Organ Hall
Introduction: Beth Walker, Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Andrew Willis: "Remembering the Inaudible: Toward an Authentic Chopin"
Lecture-Workshop - Dance Studio 322
Introduction: Tricia Zweier, Kinesiology, UNCG
Denise Gabriel: Meeting Your Senses: Embodying Performance
Session IV LUNCH 1:15-2:00
Donna Baldwin-Bradby and students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, excerpts from Suzan-Lori Parks' The America Play - in front of Taylor Theatre
Session V Introduction: Christine Woodworth, Theatre and Women's and Gender Studies , UNCG
2:00-4:00
KEYNOTE Suzan-Lori Parks
Session VI Re-membering Masculinity: War in Modern Man’s Memory - Music 217, Collins
Lecture Hall
4:15-5:45 Moderator: Shannon Wong Lerner, UNC, Chapel Hill
Witzig, Denise - "Mourning Masculinity: Mad Men, Memory and Melancholia"
Masciarotte, Gloria-Jean - "U.S. Nationalism and Its Discontents: Indigenous Masculinity in the memory of the Greatest Generation"
Memory's Rhetoric: Public Commemorative Sites and Artworks - Music 223
Moderator: Gwen Hunnicutt, Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Blair, Carole and Balthrop, V. William - "Commemorative Mapping: U.S. World War I Monuments in Europe and the Expatriation of Memory" Biesecker, Barbara A. - "The Rhetoric of the Aesthetic: Ethico-politico Resubjectivation and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum" Kahl, Mary - "Memory, Politics, and the Women's Suffrage Story: An Analysis of the Discourses of the Women's Rights National Historic Park"
Resistance and Rebellion: Visual Depictions of Iconoclasts - Music 226
Moderator: Mitra Salehi, independent artist/scholar, Greensboro, NC
Kácsor, Adrienn - "Facing Our Difficult Heritage: The Memory of Communism Represented in Artworks in Post-Communist Hungary" Oakley, Eric - "The Meteor: Domestic Terrorism, American Memory and the Curious Career of John Brown" Williams, Maggy - "The Role of Public Memory in Imagining American Identity through Civil Rights Photographs"
Winer, Samantha Denise - "The Art of Propaganda: The Realities of Combat Fatigue in
World War II"
Lecture Demonstration - Music 110
Introduction: Petagay Letren, Dance, UNCG
Bonnie Eckard and Maria Porter: Crafting Public Memory II
Lecture/Performance - Dance Studio 322
Introduction: Brianna Taylor, Dance, UNCG
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8:00 P.M. PERFORMANCE AT DANCE THEATRE (FREE BUT NEED TICKET)
Madeleine Reber & Amy Beasley: An Unfolding of Miscalculations
Melanie Greene: La Madame Jaune
Cadence Whittier: Spin: Embodying Political Discourse
Khary Jackson: Dancing Through History: The Body Speaks Back
Melissa Pihos: Dear Dad Duane Cyrus: Middle Passage: Traveler Part I
PERFORMANCE AT THE ORGAN HALL IN THE MUSIC BUILDING (FREE BUT NEED TICKET) J. Kent Williams: "Reprising the Feeling: City Songs by Vernon Duke"
Polly Butler Cornelius, soprano
Philip Van Lidth de Jeude, tenor
James Douglass, piano.
ORPHEUS DESCENDING THEATRE PERFORMANCE AT TAYLOR THEATRE
(Ticket - $9.00 if purchases with registration) ******************************************************* Sunday, April 10, 2011
8:30-9:00 Coffee - Music Building Recital Hall Lobby
Session I Workshop - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall 9:00-10:15 Introduction: Drew Barker, Triad Stage
Janet Allard: Whose/Who's Lincoln?
Workshop - Music 221 Introduction: Ann Dils, Dance and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Lauren W. Kearns: We Dance/We Remember: An Autobiographical Dance-Making and
Writing Tool to Invoke Personal and Public Memory
Session II Performative Geneologies of Bill T. Jones - Music 217, Collins Lecture Hall 10:30-11:45 Moderator: Ann Dils, Dance and Women's and Gender Studies, UNCG
Archer, Lindsey -"Traversing the Pathway of Pain in Bill T. Jones’ Still/Here"
Maples, Holly - "Brother Abraham! : Performing Experimental Democracy in Bill T. Jones's Lincoln Project" Discussion of Serenade/ The Proposition
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