PRAXIS, INC: 2026
PRAXIS, INC: Innovate, Network, Collaborate is the department's annual community event in which we invite current students, faculty and alumni to come together and share their skills in the field of Performance Studies, engage in important conversations, and stay connected with colleagues and peers..
This year's program will include sessions by: Atlas Akeem Ali (B.A. '19), Alex Belluck (M.A. Student), Taylor C. Black (Ph.D. '26), Melia Chendo (M.A. Student), Dr. D. Elizabeth Cohen (M.A. '76), Jameel Amir Finch-Martin (M.A. Student), Sarah Guilbault (M.A. '21), Amanda Krische (M.A. Student), Eva Margarita (M.A. '20) Joey Mauro (M.A. '24), Noah Ortega (M.A. '16), Denisse Griselda Reyes (M.A. Student), Mateo Rodriguez-Hurtado (M.A. '20), Savyon Vaknin (Ph.D. Student, M.A. '24), and Nicki Yost (M.A. '25).
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Joshua Chambers-Letson (PS PhD '09) is the Chair of Performance Studies and Professor of Performance Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. With expertise in performance theory, queer of color critique, and race and ethnic studies, JCL is the author of Unfinished Grief: Queer Love and Loss (forthcoming NYU Press 2026) and is the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book Award from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and the 2019 Erroll Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research) and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America (winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award from ATHE). JCL is also the co-editor of José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown with Tavia Nyong’o, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital with Christine Mok, and series co-editor of NYU Press’s Sexual Cultures series with Tavia Nyong’o and Ann Pellegrini. In addition to a host of publications in scholarly journals, art writing appears in publications for the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, the Whitney Museum of Art, MoMA, the 57th Venice Biennale, Boston ICA, SCHUNCK, the Haus der Kulturen der Velt, and SAVVY Contemporary.
SCHEDULE:
10:30-10:45 - Check in/ Breakfast
10:45-11:30 - Session 1 (three concurrent workshops happening)
11:40-12:25 - Session 2 (three concurrent workshops happening)
12:25-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-1:45 - Session 3 (three concurrent workshops happening)
1:55-2:40 - Session 4 (three concurrent workshops happening)
2:50-4:15 - Keynote
4:15 - Reception