Hello TAPS Workshop Friends,

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the fall quarter. Generally speaking, we will meet every other Wednesday from 12p -1:30p CT. We will kindly ask people to register in advance of the workshops in order to receive the Zoom link (for security reasons). Sessions marked with an asterisk occur outside of our regular meeting time.

10/7/20 – TAPS Workshop Kickoff Meeting: Current (and particularly new) UChicago faculty and graduate students are invited to introduce themselves to the TAPS community. Register here. 

*10/30/20 12p – 1:30p CT  – “The Theater of Electoral Politics: Seven Keywords” (a roundtable). This roundtable event will feature seven scholars speaking on seven key words common in contemporary political discourse. Keywords and speakers include:

• • Circus    –    Danielle Bainbridge (Assistant Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University)
  • Illusion    –    Sebastián Calderón Bentin (Assistant Professor of Drama, NYU)
  • Performative    –    Michelle Liu Carriger (Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television)
  • Hygiene Theater    –    Meredith Conti (Assistant Professor of Theatre, University at Buffalo)
  • Canned    –    Christopher Grobe (Associate Professor, Chair of English, Amherst College)
  • Central Casting    –    Brian Herrera (Associate Professor of Theater, Princeton University)
  • Performance Art    –    Laura Levin (Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, York University)

10/21/20 – “How to make site-specific art when sites themselves have histories: Whittier Boulevard as Asco’s ‘El Camino Surreal’” – Brandon Sward, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago. Respondent: Colin Gunkel, Associate Professor, Department of American culture, Department of Film, Television, and Media, University of Michigan. 

*11/16/20, 3:00-4:20p CT –  “Colored-in feeling: the Protest Puppets of the Women’s Pentagon Action” – Marissa Fenley, PhD Candidate, English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.  Respondents: Bill Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago & Michael Stablein, PhD Student, English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.  Co-sponsored with 20/21st C Workshop. 

*12/2/20, 4-5:30 p CT – “See No More: Theatrical Subjectivity in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé”  – Michelle Chow, MAPH Student, University of Chicago. Respondent: Benjamin Morgan,  Associate Professor, English, University of Chicago.