UCIPC Student Retreat, UC Irvine, June 2006
The UCIPC funds graduate students to attend a retreat focused on professionalization in the area of international performance and culture. The retreats invite two students from each participating campus to submit an essay or chapter for detailed feedback. Three UCIPC faculty are involved in the week-long intensive event, and one invited faculty member from a campus outside the University of California system gives a keynote lecture. The structure of the retreat is based on the series of highly successful graduate retreats held in Helsinki, Finland. Students work in small group sessions with faculty members. All participants read the submitted papers, present short introductions to their own submission and receive substantial feedback. In addition, the whole group discusses significant new books in the field and watch video/dvd documentation of recent performance work. Discussions also take place concerning career progression, publishing, and the current state of the profession. Student response to these events speaks of a rewarding experience that is of substantial benefit to their careers.
Program UCIPC Graduate Student Retreats, UC Irvine, June 2006
Faculty Members
Lynette Hunter [UC Davis]
Janelle Reinelt [UC Irvine]
Simon Williams [UC Santa Cruz]
Melissa Sihra [Queen’s University Belfast
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9:00-9:30 Intro to Retreat Chair: Janelle
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9:30-10:15 Paper #4 Chair:Simon Paper:Michael |
9:30-10:15 Paper #9 Chair:Lynette Paper:Rebecca |
9:30-11:00 Final
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9:30-10:15 Paper #1 Chair:Janelle Paper:Beth
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10:30-11:15 Paper #5 Chair:Lynette Paper:Nancy |
10:30-11:15 Paper #10 Chair:Janelle Paper:Catherine |
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10:30-11:15 Paper #2 Chair:Simon Paper:Judy
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11:30-12:15 Paper #6 Chair:Melissa Paper:Jaiyun |
11:30-12:15 Paper #11 Chair:Simon Paper:Shelly |
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11:30-12:15 Paper #3 Chair:Lynette Paper:Nikki
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12:15-1:30 Lunch |
12:15-1:30 Lunch |
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12:15-1:30 Lunch |
1:30-2:30 Small Group disc. |
1:30-3:00 Reading Group #2 |
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1:30-3:00 Melissa Sihra Keynote
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2:30-4:00 Paper #7 Chair:Simon Paper:Heather |
3:15-4:00 Paper #12 Chair:Melissa Paper:Karen
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3:15-4:30 Reading Group #1
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4:15-5:00 Paper #8 Chair:Melissa Paper:Elizabeth |
4:15-5:00 Small Group disc. |
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5:00 7:00 Chair:Janelle |
5:30 Free |
5:30 |
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Student Papers
Michael Jaros
“Brilliant Failure: Mourning, MacLiammoir and Performing Irishness”
Nancy Finn
“‘It is never easy becoming past tense’: Constructs of Memory and Identity in Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow”
Eschen
“Citing and Circulating Celebrity”
Karen O’Brien
“’Ireland nsn’t be such a bad place so’: Mapping the ‘Real’ Terrain of the Aran Islands
Shelly Gilbride
“Study of Major Presenters”
Rebecca Johannsen
“Terrorizing the Audience: Understanding Terror as Theatre in Modern Drama”
Catherine Burriss
“Performing Theory: Gendered and Erotic Complications in Cinquecento Comedies, and Some English Reverberations”
Judy Halebsky
“The Steveston Noh Project: Employing Japanese Noh in a Canadian Experience that ‘Needs to be Told’”
Beth Hoffmann
“Alternative/Identity: Jatinder Verma and Tara Arts”
Jiayun Zhuang
“Not Farewell, the Postsocialist Performances in Urban China”
Heather LaForge
“Rupturing Identity: Mediating Trauma in Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City”