Theater and Performance Studies Workshop
Fall Schedule 2023-24
Co-coordinators: Jennifer Williams & Jamie Lee
Faculty Advisors: Professors Jessica Baker & Julia Rhoads
Background: “Façade” (2022), thatch, steel, and wood, dimensions variable. Foreground: “Satellite” (2022), bronze, 24 feet × 10 feet × 7 feet 7 inches. All images courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, by Timothy Schenck, © Simone Leigh.The Theatre and Performance Studies Workshop is pleased to announce our Fall 2023 schedule. Our meetings this quarter are hybrid (in-person and Zoom) and will take place on the respective dates given below (unless we notify you of a change) and will be held from 5-6:30p CT at Logan Arts Center 603 and 701.
“Writing for the Artful: On Contemporary Arts Writing”
Jamie Lee and Jennifer Williams, PhD students, English/TAPS, UChicago
Tuesday, October 24th, 5-6:30 pm (Logan Arts Center, 603)
“Identity as Liberatory Practice: José Sarria’s Performance Archive, and the Making of Nelly Queens, 1953-1963″
Mori Reithmayr, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Tuesday, November 7th, 5-6:30 pm (Zoom)
“Democratic Ensembles: Spoken Art and Politics at Chicago Settlement Houses, 1800-1920″
Fiona Maxwell, PhD Candidate, History, UChicago
Tuesday, November 14th, 5-6:30 pm (Zoom)
“The Art of Archiving as an Art of/for Living: On Black Trans Eldership”
(TAPSGIVING +special screening of Mama Gloria, 2022)
Jamie Lee, PhD Student, English/TAPS, UChicago
Tuesday, November 21st, 5-6:30 pm (Logan Arts Center, 603)
“Soliloquy: Hauntological Somatics”
Monika Blaszczak, PhD Student, Performance Studies, NYU
Thursday, December 7th, 5-6:30 pm (Logan Arts Center, 701)