Faculty Seminar Series "The Humanities and the Value of Performance"
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 12:00pm
The Faculty Seminar Series, “The Humanities and the Value of Performance,” presented by the IHR, draws faculty, students and community members together to discuss the concerns and methodologies that characterize and distinguish humanities research.
The ideas, practices, and metaphors of performance form a core foundation in the disciplines that comprise the humanities. From notions of mediated performance within literary, filmic, musical and dramatic discourse, to ideas about the ethics, politics, and the rhetoric of performance, and the cultural, historical, and religious impact and implication of performance, the humanities contributes important and compelling research for understanding one of the root endeavors that makes us human. Over the three dates of the 2012-13 IHR Faculty Seminar Series, we will hear from six faculty members, whose research encompasses aspects of performance within artistic and creative practice and cultural theoretical discourse.
Introductory talk to the series: Tuesday, Sept. 25
'The Hydrants are Open:' Latinos and Broadway in the 21st Century, David Román, Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Southern California
Performance and the Ritual of Consumption: Tuesday, Oct. 2
Not For Sale: Burning Man and the Gift Economy, Rachel Bowditch, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Performing Product Placement: The iPad integration in ABC's Modern Family, Kevin Sandler, Associate Professor and Director of Internships in the Film and Media Studies Program
Performance and Emergence: Wednesday, Nov. 14
Hybrid Place: Interface, Performance, Environment, Grisha Coleman, Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media and Engineering
Non-Rational Thought, Humor, and the Academy, Ron Broglio, Associate Professor, Department of English
Performance and the Text: Tuesday, Jan. 29
Translation in Performance/Translation as Performance, Gitta Honegger, Professor, School of Theatre and Film
Eating Scripts: Imperial Feasts and the Staging of Ritual in 12th Century China, Stephen West, Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures