Hello TAPS Workshop Friends,

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the winter 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.

1/13/21 –12:oo-1:30pm CT– “Dialectics of Revision in Performance Historiography and Dramatic Adaptation”– İlyas Deniz Çınar and Şeyda Nur Yıldırım, Graduate Students in Communication Studies, Kadir Has University Istanbul. Respondent: Asya Sagnak, MA Student in TAPS, University of Chicago.

1/27/21 –12:oo-1:30pm CT– “Beneath this Flag Stands a Body: On the Human Form as Final Technology”- Anna Jayne Kimmel, PhD Student in Performance Studies, Stanford University. Respondent: Clara Nizard, PhD Student in English/TAPS, University of Chicago.

* 2/17/21 –5:00-6:30pm CT– “A Cultural History of Process-oriented Drama and Pedagogy in post-Civil War Evanston”- Fiona Maxwell, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago.  Co-sponsored with the 18/19th C Workshop. 

* 2/23/21 – 10:00-11:00am CT – Scott Sheppard on Dramaturgy and Devised Process in Underground Railroad Game – Scott Sheppard, Lighting Rod Special

3/10/21 – 12:00 – 1:30 pm CT – “Making Melodrama Great Again” – Christopher Corbo, PhD Candidate in English, Rutgers University. Respondent: John Muse, Associate Professor, English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago.