All conference events are held at the Logan Center for the Arts, Performance Penthouse 901, 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
FRIDAY, APRIL 29
9:00 coffee
9:30 OPENING -
Welcome remarks, Martha Feldman (Department of Music and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago) and Bonnie Gordon (Department of Music, University of Virginia)
INTROS and TEMPOS
Chair, Ruth HaCohen (Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Department of Music and Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago)
9:45 Introduction, Kara Keeling (Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
9:55 Bonnie Gordon (Department of Music, University of Virginia)
Syncopated Histories / Castrato Temporalities
11:00 coffee
ILLIMITS
Chair, Judith T. Zeitlin (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies)
11:15 Freya Jarman (Department of Music, University of Liverpool)
Vexatious Voices: Madness and Other Metaphysical Journeys of Pitch
11:45 Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson (Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern University)
Season of Glass: Yoko Ono’s Shatter and Scream
12:15 David J. Levin (Departments of Germanic Studies and Cinema and Media Studies, Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Arts, University of Chicago), respondent
1:00 lunch
IMPOSITIONS
Chair, Travis A. Jackson (Department of Music, University of Chicago)
2:00 Katherine Crawford (Departments of Gender and Sexuality Studies and History, Vanderbilt University)
Race, Castration, and Confusion: An Epistemology of Silence
2:30 Amy Skjerseth (Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Lip Sync vs. the Music Box: Sasha Velour’s Play with Playback in Drag
3:30 coffee
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
4:00 Introduction, Kara Keeling (Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago)
Deborah Vargas (Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University)
El Grito: The Errant Cries of Mexicanidad
5:30 wine reception
SATURDAY, APRIL 30
9:00 coffee
ADJACENCIES
Chair, Sylvie Boulette (Department of English, University of Chicago)
9:30 Martha Feldman (Department of Music and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago)
Castrato / Trans
10:00 Grace Lavery (Department of English, University of California at Berkeley)
Clockiness and Vocality: Notes Towards a Theory of the Giveaway
11:00 coffee
ARTISTS
Chair, Andrew F. Jones (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at Berkeley)
11:15 Emily Wilbourne (Department of Music, City University of New York and Queen’s College)
The Black Castrato in the Seventeenth Century
11:45 Tammy L. Kernodle (Department of Music, Miami University of Ohio)
Take It from My Mouth: Odetta, Black Orality, and the Radicalness of Black Folk Culture
12:15 Noémie Ndiaye (Department of English and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago), respondent
1:00 lunch
ORALITIES
Chair, Tina Post (Department of English and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago)
2:00 Francesca Royster (Department of English, DePaul University)
Uneasy Listening: Tina Turner’s Queer Frequencies
2:30 Mark Burford (Department of Music, Reed College)
Performing Preservation: White Women’s Voices and Old South Black Song
3:00 Jessica Baker (Department of Music, University of Chicago), respondent
3:45 coffee
ROUNDTABLE
4-6:00
UChicago Graduate Student Discussants: Rachel Chery (Department of Music), Tomal Hossain (Department of Music), Eva Pensis (Department of Music and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies)
Discussion led off by Martha Feldman, Bonnie Gordon, Kara Keeling, Amy Skjerseth, and Alexander G. Weheliye (Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University)
