Fall 2017 Conference

Escape from the Archive: Encountering History through Performance and Theater
 

From documentary theatre’s interweaving and performance of archival material to site-specific historical reenactment to the theatrical adaptation of historical events, theatre and performance have long been generative sites of encountering and reanimating the past. Significantly, where the archive is most frequently a textual (though still potentially sensual and affective) engagement with history, theatre and performance offer the opportunity to embody the past, to encounter history in the surrogated flesh. Escape from the Archive is a weekend long conference exploring the theatrical and performative possibilities of the archive through roundtables, lectures, and performances. The full schedule is below, and all events are free and open to the public.

Please email co-organizers Caitlin Kane (cak269@cornell.edu) and Erin Stoneking (ers276@cornell.edu) with any questions about the events.

For full schedule of events, visit https://pma.cornell.edu/conference.

Highlighted Events include:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27TH
124 Schwartz Center
Reading Room

5 - 5:30pm
OPENING RECEPTION

5:30 - 7pm
ROUNDTABLE
LISA MERRILL, Hosftra University (Featured Guest)
BRENDA MARSTON, Curator of the Human Sexuality Collection, Cornell University
JAMES WALLER, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation


SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28TH
Schwartz Center Film Forum
1:30 - 3pm KEYNOTE LECTURE
SOYICA DIGGS COLBERT, Georgetown University Archival Curiosities and Fugitive Geographies in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun"

7 - 9pm STAGED READING
Schwartz Center
Black Box Theatre

LEIGH FONDAKOWSKI, Tectonic Theater Project, presents a reading of her new play Casa Cushman, featuring performances by Kelli Simpkins (Tectonic Theater Project) and Cornell students


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29TH
Meet behind Boatyard Grill,
525 Taughannock Blvd.

11:30am - 1pm
AUDIOPLAY PERFORMANCE
Walking performance of Storm Country from Lookout Point of Erie Barge Canal to the Cherry Arts Center

Co-Sponsors:
Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA), GPSA Programming Board, English, History, Human Sexuality Collection, Grad School Office of Inclusion and Engagement (OISE), LGBT Studies, The History Center in Tompkins County, and The Cherry Arts