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 Davis, June 2008

Faculty Members
Lynette Hunter [UC Davis]
John Rouse [UC San Diego]
Jared Sexton [UC Irvine]
Frank Wilderson [UC Irvine]

Monday 9.30-10.00 START Intro to Retreat Chair: Lynette	Tuesday 9:00-9.45 Paper #4 Chair:Jared Paper:Claire	Wednesday 9:30-10:15 Paper #9 Chair:Frank Paper:Torsten	Thursday 9:30-11:00 Professionalisation discussion and Evaluation
10.00-10.45 Paper #1 Chair:Lynette Paper:Beth	10.00-10.45 Paper #5 Chair:Frank Paper:Taehyung	10:30-11:15 Paper #10 Chair:Lynette Paper:Brad
10.45-11.30 Paper#2 Chair:John Paper:Kate	11.00-11.45 Paper#6 Chair:Jared Paper:Adam	11:30-12:15 Paper#11 Chair:John Paper:Sara
11:45-12.30 Paper#3 Chair:Frank Paper:Amy	12.00-12.45 Paper#7 Chair:Lynette Paper:Julian 12.45-2.00 Lunch	12:15-1:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Lunch	2.00-2.45 Small Group disc.1	1:30-3:00 Reading Group #2 The Witch’s Flight
1:30-3:00 Jared Sexton Keynote	3.00-3.45 Paper #7 Chair:John Paper:Elizabeth	3:15-4:00 Paper #12 Chair:Jared Paper:Aimee
3:15-4:45 Reading Group #1 Performing Science.	4.00-4.45 Paper#8 Chair:Lynette Paper:James	4:15-5:00 Small Group disc.2
5:30 Dinner 6.45 Video/Discussion Documenting Performance	5:30 Dinner at Refectory or in town Free Evening	5:30 Davis Evening market, and Dinner at Mustard Seed

Student Papers

Adam Bryx. “A Style of Becoming-minoritarian in Beckett’s Murphy: Becoming-intense, -vegetal, -mineral.”

Julian Cha. “Cross-ethnic Traffic: Asian/American Performance of Cultural Icons in Popular Music.”

Claire Maria Chambers Blackstock. “The Seven Faces of Saddam Hussein: The Power of Abomination and the Figuration of the Former President of Iraq in the American Imagination.”

Amy Champ. “Buddhist Practice, Buddhist Politics: Critical Strategies for Lasting Social Change.”

Elizabeth Galindo. “Expected and Unexpected Approaches to Historical Costume Design in Century Historical Films.”

Taehyung Kim. “Incompatible Suffering: The Excepted in Twilight and Sa-I-Gu.”

James Perez. “Stand-Up Justice.”

Kate Menninger Kokontis. “I saw it in the negotiations of the real world conducted in the land of make believe or, Carrie Mae Weems: Bearing Witness to the Rememory of Slavery.”

Brad Rogers. “The Ovaline Politics of Lawrence Welk’s Champagne Music.”
Torsten Sannar. “The Touring Colonizer and the Colonizing Tourist.”

Sara Wolf. “Choreographing American Body Politics in the Twenty-first Century.”

Beth Wynstra. “Rhetoric and the Birth of the Modern American Political Theater.”

Aimee Zygmonski. “From Welfare Queens to Original Gangstas: Narratives of Power in Kia Corthon’s Breath, Boom.”

Retreat Program 2008

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