3RD ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM: DIS/PLACEMENTS: PERFORMANCE, MOVEMENT, AND RESISTANCE

DIS/PLACEMENTS: PERFORMANCE, MOVEMENT, AND RESISTANCE
 
UCSB DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AND DANCE’S
3RD ANNUAL GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM
 
Saturday, May 4, 2019
9 am - 4 pm
 
Old Ballet Studio, HSSB 1151
University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Every day, countless people around the globe leave their communities and nations to seek new homes. The struggle of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and victims of removal is critical, and future disasters of environmental and ecological scales threaten to displace more people in the decades to come. At the same time, revolutionary technologies are transforming the ways we share knowledge and information. At this crucial moment, our considerations of the notion of place—and therefore, what it means to be displaced—is in flux. This graduate symposium engages aesthetic and everyday performance as a means to explore the categorization and movement of people, objects, ideas, and information.
 
Conference schedule
 
9:00am       Welcome
9:15am       First Panel - Displaced: Space
                   Anna Holman (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
                   Sevi Bayraktar (World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA)
                   Cloe Gentile (Music/Musicology, UCSB)
10:45am     Second Panel - Displaced: Identity
                   Tiffany Lytle (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
                   Miya Shaffer (World Arts & Cultures/Dance, UCLA)
                   Heena Yoon (Music, UCSB)
12:00pm     Lunch
1:15pm       Third Panel - Displaced: Materiality
                   Dave Mancini (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
                   Thaddeus Nagey (Theater Arts, CSUN)
2:25pm       Keynote: Dr. Emily Roxworthy, Associate Professor, Department of Theater and Dance, UCSD
3:25pm       Closing remarks