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Kiana Karimi to Present at Third Annual MENA Conference
Wednesday, Mar 20, 2019
Ph.D. Candidate Kiana Karimi will present her talk "Women’s daily practices of appropriating public space in Iran" as part of the Third Annual International Conference on Middle Eastern And North African Studies at Ibn Tofail University in Morocco.
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Deborah Kapchan's "Poetic Justice"
Wednesday, Mar 6, 2019
Performance Studies Professor Deborah Kapchan's latest book "Poetic Justice: An Anthology of Contemporary Moroccan Poetry" will be released this Spring!
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SKIRBALL TALKS: IS LIBERATION ACADEMIC?
Friday, Feb 22, 2019
Professor Ann Pellegrini will join a roundtable of University faculty reflect on Gay Liberation – a movement whose story cannot be told without Stonewall – and consider to what extent liberation is an “academic” question, in both senses of the term. Among the issues to be explored: the contested legacies of Stonewall; NYU’s role, then and now; shifts and changes wrought by the last 50 years; and the promises and challenges of queer futures, in and beyond the academy.
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Yarden Stern in conversation with Roey Victoria Heifetz
Friday, Feb 22, 2019
Ph.D. Candidate Yarden Stern will join artist Roey Victoria Heifetz in conversation about Heifetz's new work "Third Body." Third Body is a series of large scale drawings of Heifetz and a video installation created in collaboration with the filmmaker Zohar Melinek Ezra, that pose challenging questions about the “transgender body”, and the body in general.
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Madness as a Form of Knowledge: Pavel Karpov’s Creations of the Mentally Ill
Thursday, Feb 21, 2019
Performance Studies alum Branislav Jakovljevic (M.A. '96, Ph.D. '02) will give the talk “Madness as a Form of Knowledge: Pavel Karpov’s Creations of the Mentally Ill” as part of the Occasional Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.
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Imagine Otherwise: Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón on Women Graffiti Artists
Wednesday, Feb 20, 2019
Performance Studies alum Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón (Ph.D. '13) joined Cathy Hannabach on the Imagine Otherwise podcast to discuss how women graffiti writers perform feminism on the global stage.
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"Session Players: Latina Music Critics at Work" with Alex Vazquez
Friday, Feb 15, 2019
Associate Professor Alex Vazquez will join Licia Fiol-Matta and Deborah Vargas in conversation for "Session Players: Latina Music Critics at Work" at Provincetown Playhouse.
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The Iranian Revolution 40 Years On
Thursday, Feb 14, 2019
Ph.D. Candidate Kiana Karimi will give the talk "The Iranian Revolution 40 Years On: Fractured Legacies of the Leftist and Women’s Movements" at NYUAD.
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Alum Gelsey Bell Featured in the New York Times
Friday, Feb 8, 2019
Performance Studies alum Gelsey Bell (M.A. '05, Ph.D. '07) was recently featured in the New York Times' "The Pleasures and Perils of Reviving a Robert Ashley Opera." Gelsey discusses her role in the revival of Robert Ashley's "Improvement (Don leaves Linda)."
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Alex Vazquez to Present at BSAW Symposium
Wednesday, Feb 6, 2019
Associate Professor Alex Vazquez will present as part of the Inaugural Black Sound & the Archive Symposium at Yale University.
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