The department hoste a conversation with MA Alum Nandita Dinesh about her new book, This Place | That Place. This Place | That Place is a formally ambitious political and literary novel that centers on two unnamed characters from opposing sides of an unnamed war.
Department of Performance Studies welcomed double PS Alum Shanté Paradigm Smalls back to the 6th floor to discuss their first book, "Hip Hop Heresies."
Comedian and actress Kate Berlant (MA Alum) joined performance studies scholar Ann Pellegrini to discuss Berlant’s newest solo performance Kate. Topics of conversation included performance art history, comedy, critique, gender, genre, and the politics of confession.
Rage, Rhythm, Renaissance: Performances of/in the Ongoing Iranian Revolution was a panel discussion featuring scholars and artists Yasamin Rezai, Aida Shirazi and Nazanin Noroozi, moderated by PS Alum Niyoosha Ahmadikhoo (MA ‘17).
Vivian L. Huang (PS PhD Alumna) was joined by three preeminent scholars -- Karen Shimakawa (NYU), David Eng (U of Penn), and Susette Min (UCDavis) -- for an online discussion and celebration of Huang's recently published book Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian Inscrutability.