March 15, 2014, 5pm
Liu Institute for Global Issues
Followed by reception
Performing Utopias Conference keynote address
Diana Taylor (NYU), “Dancing with the Zapatistas”
Plus, Professor Taylor will be leading a workshop earlier that seame day:
March 15, 2014, 11am-12pm
St. John’s College
The workshop will be followed by a complimentary lunch.
Please let us know if you are interested in participating in this event by contacting Alessandra Santos by Friday, March 7. More information about the reading and discussion topic will be sent to those who RSVP.
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU. She is the author of the award-winning Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ (1997), and The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke U.P., 2003), which won the Outstanding Book from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Best Book in Latin American and Hispanic Studies from the Modern Language Association. She has recently published several books in Spanish: PERFORMANCE (Buenos Aires: Asuntos Impresos, 2012); Acciones de memoria: Performance, historia, y trauma (Peru: Fondo Editorial de la Asamblea Nacional de Rectores, 2012); Estudios avanzados de performance (co-edited, Marcela Fuentes; Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2011). She has edited over a dozen books, has lectured extensively around the world, and is the recipient of many awards and fellowship, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005 and the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship, 2013-14. She is founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, funded by the Ford, Mellon, Rockefeller, Rockefeller Brothers and Henry Luce Foundations.