Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies invites graduate students from across the social sciences, humanities, and beyond whose research uses performance as theory, method, or praxis to join us for panel presentations, performances, and sustained dialogue. We also welcome emerging scholars whose research includes cultural performances, performance events, or performativity in everyday life, even if they do not consider themselves performance scholars, per se.
Radical Intersections aims to interrogate junctures at which dissimilar ways of being, doing, and thinking rub against one another. Such junctures have the potential to disturb foundational concepts and disciplinary assumptions. As Dwight Conquergood wrote, “Our radical move is to turn, and return, insistently, to the crossroads.” With performance theory gaining currency in a variety of disciplines, and Performance Studies itself interdisciplinary in its subjects, methods, and analytics, performance scholars often inhabit such crossroads. Graduate students, as the next generation of the academy, would do well to pause at our present junctures and explore possible directions: what choices do Performance Studies scholars face today, and where should performance scholarship go from here?
REGISTRATION
Registration is free but seats are limited. Please send us:
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-Your name
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-Institutional affiliation
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-Mailing address
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-Cell phone number
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-Email
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-Short (100 word) bio
Our email is radicalintersections@northwestern.edu
Requests to attend will be fulfilled on a first-come/first-served basis. We have spaces for no more than 120 participants. Questions? Please contact us by email or at (847) 491-3171.
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