Dear TAPS Colleagues,

We are happy to present our Winter 2020 Workshop Schedule. All workshops will be held in Logan Center 603 from 4:30-6p.

1/15 – Marissa Fenley, PhD Candidate, English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago. “John W Cooper’s minstrel ventriloquism and the politics of the color-line barbershop.”

Co-Sponsored with the 20/21st Century Workshop

2/12 – Maria de Simone, PhD Student, Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University. ““An Indian in a Hebrew school?”Racial Impersonation and Immigrant Identities in American Vaudeville”

2/19 – Heidi Feldman -Visiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. “Rhythm, Mobility and Visibility in the International Career of Victoria Santa Cruz (1922–2014), Arts Matriarch of the Peruvian Black Pacific.”

3/11 – Eva Pensis, PhD Student, Music and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago. “There’s a Feeling That You’re Ready to Go Out and Battle”: Vogue Femme, Trading Places and the Antics of “Ha!”

Should you have any questions, require accommodations, or would like to be added to the listserv, please contact the co-coordinators at pensis@uchicago.edu or ariannagass@uchicago.edu