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*Sessions live-streamed via howlround will be recorded and archived.*

*Closed captioning will be provided throughout the conference.*

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021

10:00-10:15 AM: Welcoming Remarks
(REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

Prof. Peter Eckersall (The Graduate Center, CUNY)

10:15-11:30 AM: Keynote Speech
(REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

“Threshold Realities: Renegotiating the (Extra)Ordinary”
Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) and Prof. Katia Arfara (New York University, Abu Dhabi)

Session One: Theatricality and Performativity of the Everyday 12:00-1:15 PM
Moderator: Philip Wiles (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “Comedy’s Failures”
  Joseph Richards (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• “Worldly Practices: The Limits of the Extra-Daily”
  Seth Powers (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• “Embodied Reading between Eschatological and Scatological: Masculinity and Queerness in Alperen Kartal’s Experimental Novels”
  Deniz Başar (Concordia University)

Session Two: Performance Spaces and Rehearsing the Everyday 1:30-2:45 PM
Moderator: Esther Neff (REgister here) also live-streamed via Segal Center Facebook page

• “Performative Acting and the multiple layers of the Quotidian”
  Ülfet Sevdi (Concordia University)
• “Demystifying Sacredness: How Theatre Artists Staging and Rehearsing Daily Encounters”
  Gladhys Elliona Syahutari (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
• “Elevating the Everyday to Ritual: Rehearsing and Performing Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days in Covid-19 Quarantine” (Performance)
  Robyn Accetta (The University of Georgia)

Session Three: Remembering and Archiving 3:00-4:15 PM
Moderator: Christine Snyder (REgister here) also live-streamed via Segal Center Facebook page

• “After Action: The Everydayness of Performance”
  Amir Farjoun (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• “BELIEVE IT OR NOT: An Artistic and Participatory Performance” (Performance)
  Semarang (A collaboration of Roda Gila dan Kelab Kelip Bersaudara and Seraya)
• “Reframing a Portrait of a Moor: English Perceptions of Islamic Performatives from 1600-1601”
  Grace Kimball (The University of California, Santa Barbara)

Session Four: The Movements of the Everyday 4:30-5:45 PM
Moderator: Dahye Lee (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “Boiling Tempers: Weighted Time and Counter-Choreographies”
  Sonya Merutka (New York University)
• “House of Repetitions: Disability Aesthetics and Care Choreographies in a Stay-at-Home Era” 
  Kiera Bono (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• “6FT: NO DIVING” (Performance)
  Katherine A. Mackey (SUNY Buffalo)

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Session Five: Climate, Ecology, and the Everyday 10:30-11:45 AM
Moderator: Ash Marinaccio (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “If Global Warming Was a Thing of the Past: Sun & Sea (Marina)’s Humorous Reminder of Ecological Catastrophe in the Everyday”
  Bridget Fleming (The University of Rochester)
• “Breathing Bricks: Nut Brother’s Dust Project and the Politics of Particulate Matter”
  Alex Knapp (Northwestern University)
• “Revealing the Ineffable Behaviors of the Salawu Craftspeople during the Harvesting Period”
  Amira Rahardiani (Kanazawa University)

Session Six: Gender and the Everyday 12:00-1:15 PM
Moderator: Eylül Fidan Akinci (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “‘InstaMums’: Performing Motherhood in the Theatre of Social Media”
  Claudia Kinahan (Northwestern University)
• “Listening-with: feminine relationalities as a response to violence”
  Sarah Ashford Hart (The University of California, Davis)
• “Reclaiming the Everyday: The feminine aesthetic of women directors exposing the silenced everyday of living and surviving in theatrical productions of Samuel Beckett”
  Jessica Perich Carleton (The Université de Lille)

Session Seven: Protest, Assembly, and the Everyday 1:30-2:45 PM
Moderator: Nic Benacerraf (REgister here) also live-streamed via Segal Center Facebook page

• “‘Performing the Enemy: Everyday Liberalism and How We Can Go Beyond It”
  Alejandro Rossi (The University of California, Davis)
• “A Performative Self: The Limits of the Quotidian in the Social Sphere”
  José Eduardo Valadés (The University of California, Riverside)
• “Reforming Canadian Theatre Program Curriculum in Response to Students’ Experiences”
  Kara Flanagan (The University of Victoria)

Session Eight: Personal Practice of the Quotidian 3:00-4:15 PM
Moderator: Jess Applebaum (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “‘Documenting the Quotidian: Photography Praxis in a Pandemic”
  Ash Marinaccio (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
• “Performing Chinese in the Segregated South through Documentary” (Performance)
  Crystal Kwok (The University of Hawai’i)
• “Salad Stories” (Performance)
  Alli St. John (Arizona State University)
  Audience members will be invited to participate in the making of a salad and sharing stories at whatever level of participation they wish. Click here for more information.
  

Session Nine: Media and the Everyday 4:30-5:45 PM
Moderator: Hui Peng (REgister here) also live-streamed via howlround

• “‘Erupting Presence into Absence: Possibility, Potentiality, and Performance in New Orleans’ 2019 Boycott Bowl”
  Michael Lawrence Franz (Florida State University)
• “Building An Engaging Zoom World: Lessons From Dramaturging A Digital Love’s Labour’s Lost”
  Mike Poblete (The University of Hawai’i)
• “Is It ‘Standard’? Reconciling to the Everyday Digital in Theatre”
  Abbie Victoria Trott (The University of Melbourne)
• “The Performance of Superstardom: Constructing Identity through NBA Player Representations of Selfhood”
  Jonathan M. Rizzardi (The University of Washington)