Events Archive
Spring 2023
April 20
Presentation with Joshua Chambers-Letson (Professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University), Tavia Nyong'o (Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University), and Tania Bruguera (Senior Lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media, Affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University) on José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown
April 6
Open Symposium, moderated by Prof. Beth Blum
March 30
Presentation with Michelle Clayton, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University, "Articulations: Scenes of the Modern"
March 9
Nora Connolly, Nora and Jim
February 16
Moloney, McCann & Moloney, Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom
Fall 2022
November 10
Edna O'Brien, Joyce's Women
October 6
Jonathan Brielle, Himself and Nora
Spring 2022 Schedule (all times are EST, all zooms links are TBD)
Wednesday, March 30, 5pm
Graduate Student Workshop
Wednesday, April 6, 5 pm
Presentation with Ivan Ramos, Assitant Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University
Wednesday, April 13, 5 pm
Presentation with Monica Huerta, Assitant Professor of English and American Studies at Princeton University
Fall 2021 Schedule (all times are EST, all zooms links are TBD)
Wednesday, November 3, 5:30 pm
Happy hour with wine and cheese in front of Barker Center. We will reconvene in Room 211 to discuss Seth William's piece "[They Dance]: Collaborative Authorship and Dance in Macbeth."
Wednesday, November 17, 5 pm
Presentation with Seth Williams, Assistant Professor of Dance, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies at Barnard College.
Wednesday, December 1, 5pm
Presentation with Celeste Day Moore, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College
Spring 2020 Schedule
Thursday, February 20
Graduate Student Workshop: Vijeta Saini (Northeastern), "The Merchant of the Empire: Shakespeare and the Cultural Qualia of Mobility and Memory", 5:00pm @ Barker 218
**ALL MARCH AND APRIL EVENTS POSTPONED**
Thursday, March 12
Lawrence Switzky (U Toronto), "Eliza Doolittle, Spencer Tracy, Alan Turing, and Other Artificial Persons: Modern Drama and the Early Development of AI," 5:00pm @ Barker 218
*Professor Switzky's event will begin with an info session about Modern Drama, of which he is co-editor.*
Thursday, April 9
Andreea S. Micu (Harvard), "‘No people without houses, no houses without people’: Street Performance and Anti-Evictions Activism in Madrid," 5:00pm @ Barker 218
Thursday, April 16
Paige McGinley (Washington University in St. Louis), "On Readiness: Rehearsal and Anticipation in the Long Civil Rights Movement," 6:00pm @ Barker 218
Fall 2019 Schedule
Wednesday, October 9
Graduate Student Workshop: Isidora Miranda (UW-Madison), "Breaking the Glass: Musical Labor and the Tagalog Zarzuela Diva Atang de la Rama" @ Barker 218, 5:00pm
Thursday, October 31
Derek Miller (Harvard), "On Broadway as Repertory" @ Barker 114, 4:30pm
Wednesday, November 13
Aniko Szucs (Yale), "Performances of Resistance in the Illiberal Democracies of the 21st Century—The Case of Hungary, Macedonia, and Brazil" @ Barker 218, 5:00pm
Spring 2019 Schedule
Wednesday, February 20
Derek Miller (Harvard), "Work in Progress on a Quantitative History of Broadway" @ Barker 133, 5:00pm
Wednesday, March 6
Jewel Pereyra (Harvard), "'Oriental, Dusky, Beauty': Performing Filipina Minstrelsy in 1898" and Jonathan Karp (Harvard), Title TBA @ Barker 012, 5:00pm
Wednesday, April 3
Noe Montez (Tufts), "There’s No Substitute for Confrontation: Athlete Activism in the BLM Movement" @ Barker 269, 6:00pm
Thursday, April 11
Rizvana Bradley (Yale), "Performative Detachments" @ Barker 114, 5:00pm
Friday, April 26
Per(form)ance: A Graduate Symposium on Performance and Form @ Lamont Forum Room, 9:00am to 4:00pm
Fall 2018 Schedule
Thursday, September 20
Christine Mok (University of Rhode Island), "Vietnam in Virginia: An-My Lê’s Small Wars" @ Barker 024, 5:30pm
Thursday, October 4
Douglas Ishii (Emerson College), "Let It Come Down: James Iha and the Elsewheres of Asian American Joyl" @ Barker 114, 5pm
Thursday, October 11
Philipp Schweighauser (University of Basel), "45 Degrees: Autoimmunity in Beckett's Film" @ Barker 114, 5pm
Wednesday, October 24
Leon Hilton (Brown), "AIDS in the Future Anterior: or, Sex and Real Estate
(on THEM and Reza Abdoh)" @ Barker 211, 5pm
Thursday, November 8
Patricia Ybarra (Brown), "Why is Such a Man Alive? Rethinking Reza Abdoh in the times of Donald Trump" @ Barker 024, 5:30pm
Fall 2015 Schedule
Wednesday, October 7: Amy Hughes (CUNY), "The Intermediality of Nineteenth-Century Melodrama" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 21: Robin Bernstein (Harvard), "Black Childhood on Trial: The Tragedy of William Freeman" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 28: Samuel Adams (USC), “Returns of the Avant-Garde in German Theater from Film Montage to Television Art” @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, November 11: Leah Lowthorp (Harvard), "Freedom in Performance: Actresses and Creative Agency in the Kutiyattam Theater Complex" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, December 2: Tarryn Chun (Harvard), "Multimedia Design and Digital Interventions in Contemporary Chinese Theater" @ Kresge Room
Spring 2015 Schedule
Wednesday, February 11: Douglas A. Jones (Rutgers), “Frederick Douglass and the Aesthetics of Black Evangelical Homiletics” @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored by the American Colloquium and the Committee on Dramatic Arts
Wednesday, February 25: Ju Yon Kim (Harvard), "The Suspect Audiences of M. Butterfly" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, 3/11: "Theater and the Image: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Panel" with Samuel Adams (USC), Matt Franks (Harvard), Rebecca Kastleman (Harvard), Sophia Zhao (Stanford) @ Kresge Room
This event will feature four short papers from graduate students in the advanced stages of their dissertation projects, relating to a single topic and followed by a moderated discussion.
Tuesday, March 24: Jason Fitzgerald (Columbia), “The Impossible Study: Joseph Chaikin’s Humanism” @ Barker 133
Thursday, April 9: Needles and Opium at ArtsEmerson
Wednesday, April 22: "The Future of Theater at Harvard: An Open Forum" @ Thompson Room
This special event will bring faculty, administrators, and undergraduate and graduate students together for a roundtable discussion on the pedagogy and practice of theater at Harvard, specifically with regards to the new Theater, Dance, and Media (TDM) undergraduate concentration. Speakers will include Martin Puchner (TDM Chair), Jack Megan (Director of the Office for the Arts) and Magdalene Zier (incoming president, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club).
*Sponsored by the Committee on Dramatic Arts
Fall 2014 Schedule
Wednesday, September 10: Joseph Roach (Yale), "Biography and Celebrity Culture" @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored by the Renaissance Colloquium
Wednesday, September 17: John Robbins (Tufts), "Acting Like a Scientist: How the Theater Created Modern Science" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 1: Gibson Cima (Tufts), "Gaps in Translation: South African Restorative Justice Performance on Global Stages" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 8: Joint Colloquium Presentation with James Simpson (Harvard University), "How to Write an Article About Anything" @ Kresge Room
Friday, October 17: King Lear at ArtsEmerson
Wednesday, October 29: Claire Conceison (Duke/Harvard), "Collective Identity and Revolutionary Nostalgia in Two Popular Chinese Performances: Beijing's Classic Red-Themed Restaurant and Meng Jinghui's I Love XXX" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, November 12: Jacob Stulberg (Harvard), "Backchat and Crosstalk: Pinter and the BBC" @ Kresge Room
Spring 2014 Schedule
Wednesday, February 12: Andrew Sofer (Boston College), "The Phenomenology of the Closet: HAMLET's Dark Matter" @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored by the Committee on Dramatic Arts
Wednesday, February 26: Freddie Rokem (Tel Aviv University), "Syllogism and Tragedy: Drama and Philosophy in Oedipus Tyrannos and Antigone" @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored by the Committee on Dramatic Arts
Wednesday, March 12: Elizabeth Phillips (Harvard), "'Understand how bad and boring your lives are:' The Paradox of Chekhovian Attention" @ Barker 403
Wednesday, March 26: Derek Miller (Harvard), "Graphs, Maps, Trees, and Theater History" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, April 9: Lawrence Switzky (Toronto), "Ethics for Autocrats: On the Origins of Directors' Theatre" @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored by the Committee on Dramatic Arts
Wednesday, April 23: Rebecca Kastleman (Harvard), "Theater, Religion, Zealotry" @ Kresge Room
Fall 2013 Schedule
Monday, September 9: Martin Harries (UC Irvine), "Theater and Mass Culture: Walter Benjamin and Samuel Beckett" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, September 25: Minou Arjomand (BU), "Theatrical Dissent: Brecht and the 1953 Uprisings in East Germany" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 9: Alisa Sniderman (Harvard), "Herr Reicher's Year: The Modern Stage Experiment in the History of American Drama" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, October 23: Magda Romanska (Emerson), "Of Drammatology: The Post-traumatic Sign in the Works of Tadeusz Kantor" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, November 6: Matt Franks (Harvard), "Eliza and her bath: the drama, the novel, and Edwardian censorship" @ Kresge Room
Wednesday, November 20: Heather Nathans (Tufts) "'Play for more than you can afford to lose': Risk and Reward in Research and the Profession" @ Kresge Room
Spring 2013 Schedule
Tuesday, February 12, 2013: Welcome Party! @ Kresge Room
*Co-sponsored with our friends from the British Literature Colloquium. Drinks and snacks on hand.
Friday, February 15: You for me for you @ BCA Plaza Theatre
Wednesday, February 20: Stephen Squibb (Harvard University), "Three Visions of Modernism" @ Dana Palmer Seminar Room
Tuesday, February 26: David Levine (Radcliffe), "Character Analysis" @ Kresge Room
Friday, March 1: The Glass Menagerie @ American Repertory Theater
Monday, March 4: Prof. Stuart Hecht (BC), Workshop on the process of submitting articles to theater journals @ Kates Room, Warren House
Wednesday, March 13: Alan Ackerman (Toronto), "Comedy, Capitalism, and a Loss of Gravity" @ Sever 212
Tuesday, April 16: Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley) @ 11:00am
*We're delighted that Professor Jackson will be delivering this year's Spencer Lecture on Tuesday, April 16, at 5:00 PM in Harvard Hall 201. In conjunction with the lecture, the Drama Colloquium will be sponsoring a brunch with Prof. Jackson. Space is limited, so please let us know as soon as possible if you'd like to attend.
Tuesday, April 23:Annalisa Sacchi (Harvard), "Epic of the Dust: the Theatre of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio" @ Kates Room, Warren House
Thursday, May 2: David Kurnick (Rutgers University) @ 1:00pm
We're delighted that Professor Kurnick will be speaking at the Mahindra Humanities Center as part of the Victorian Literature and Culture seminar on Thursday, May 2 at 6:00 pm. In conjunction with this talk, the Drama Colloquium and the British Literature Colloquium will be co-sponsoring a lunch with Prof. Kurnick. Space is limited, so please let us know as soon as possible if you'd like to attend.
Fall 2012 Schedule
Wednesday, September 19: Carrie Preston (BU), "Yeats's Irish Theater, Japanese Noh Drama, and the Play of Undead Nations" @ Kates Room, Warren House
Friday, September 21: Welcome Party! @ Barker 114
*Co-sponsored with our friends from the British Literature Colloquium. Drinks and snacks on hand.
Thursday, September 27: Marie Antoinette @ American Repertory Theater
*We'll meet at the American Repertory Theater to get student rush tickets ($15 each). If you can't make it to the show on Thursday, we encourage you to see it at another time, and to meet us for an informal postshow discussion at 10 PM on 9/27 at Casablanca Restaurant (desserts provided).
Wednesday, October 3: Tarryn Chun (Harvard University), "Screening the White Snake: Intermedial History and Intertextuality on the Taiwanese Stage" @ Kates Room, Warren House
Saturday, October 13: Hamlet @ ArtsEmerson
*We'll meet at Out of Town News at 1:15pm to travel to the theater together. This event is co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium.
Monday, October 22: "Unnatural Acts" @ American Repertory Theater
*Since tickets are free, we encourage you to book your tickets online or at the box office in advance (limit 2 per person). Please let us know if you'll be attending and would like to join us for dessert after, so we'll know to look out for you.
Wednesday, November 7: Arnold Aronson (Columbia), "Time Is on My Side (of the curtain): The Scenographic Construction of Time" @ Kates Room, Warren House
*Co-sponsored with the Committee on Dramatic Arts.
Wednesday, November 28: Debra Caplan (Harvard), "'The Sun Never Sets on the Yiddish Stage': Global Theater History and the Digital Frontier" @ Kates Room, Warren House