Speakers
Sebastián Calderón Bentin
Assistant Professor of Drama
Sebastián Calderón Bentin is an artist-scholar & Assistant Professor in the Department of Drama. His research interests include: performance theory, mass media, theories of the baroque, & Latin American cultural studies. His current book project, Baroque States, explores the historical relationship between baroque performance & contemporary mass media in Latin American politics. As a performer he has collaborated with: Anna Deavere Smith, Ann Carlson, Faye Driscoll, among others. He is currently developing a stage adaptation of Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film The Exterminating Angel. In 2013, he was awarded the Routledge Prize for research excellence at the postgraduate level by Performance Studies International.
Toby Lee
Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies
Toby Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies. Her research interests include: visual & media anthropology, anthropology of cultural institutions, cultural citizenship, film festival studies, expanded documentary, & the interface of art, anthropology, & documentary. A practicing artist, her work has been exhibited at Locarno Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Museum of the Moving Image, & 2014 Whitney Biennial. She is the recipient of fellowships from Fulbright Foundation, Social Science Research Council, & Dan David Foundation. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Director of the Collaborative Studio program at UnionDocs: Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn.