UCIPC Student Retreat, UC Santa Barbara, June 14-18, 2009
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 Santa Barbara, June 2009
Faculty Members
Lynette Hunter [UC Davis]
Leo Cabranes-Grant [UC Santa Barbara]
Marcela Fuentes [UCLA]
Peter Kulchyski [University of Manitoba]
Student Papers
Nilgun Bayraktar (UC Berkeley): “’Migratory’ Images. Decentralization of “Europe” in Le Grand Voyage and Caché”
Dylan Bolles (UC Davis): “Human/nature in performance”
Rose Elfman (UC Santa Barbara): “Unsettling the Text, Unsettling the Spectator: The Shifting of ‘Meaning’ in Non-English Shakespeare”.
David Gorshein (UC Los Angeles): “Juggling Jew: Sara Felder’s play, Out of Sight ”
Katie Horowitz (UC Berkeley): “You Show Up. We’ll Teach You How to Tape Your Boobies”: On Drag Performance, Gender, & the Importance of Being Earnest”.
Lauren McCue (UC Irvine): “Donna Haraway Meets the Theatre of Sarah Kane: Forging New Epistemological Accounts and Ways of Seeing the World”
Jorge Luis Morejón (UC Davis): “Exodus and Ritual: The Virgin, the Saint, the Orishas and the Child of God”
Praba Pilar (UC Davis): “Computers Are a Girl’s Best Friend”
Jade Power (UC San Diego): “Language and Speaking the Body in U.S. Latina/o and Latin American Theater”
Cristina Rosa (UC Los Angeles): “Samba: A Syncopated Voyage Between Pride-And-Shame”
Michaela Django Walsh (UC San Diego): “Rupturing Foreclosure”
Jaye Austin Williams (UC Irvine): “Re-Thinking Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: A Tectonic Inversion of the Socratic Dialogue and a Re-Dimensionalizing of the Shadows”
Schedule
Monday, June 15
9:30-10:00 Start and Introductions
10:00-10:45 Paper #1
Katie Horowitz
Leo Cabranes-Grant, Chair
10:45-11:30 Paper #2
Michaela Django Walsh
Marcela Fuentes, Chair
11:30-11:45 Short Recess
11:45-12:30 Paper #3
David Gorshein
Lynette Hunter, Chair
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Keynote Speaker
Professor Peter Kulchynski
3:00-3:30 Recess
3:30-5:00 Book Discussion #1
Mike Pearson and Michael Shanks
Theatre/Archeology
5:00-6:00 Intellectual Walk
Tuesday, June 16
10:00-12:00 Video Presentation and Discussion
Marcela Fuentes, Chair
“Favela Rising”. (Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:45 Paper #4
Nilgun Bayraktar
Peter Kulchyski, Chair
1:45-2:30 Paper #5
Jorge Luis Morejón
Leo Cabranes-Grant, Chair
2:30-2:45 Short Recess
2:45-3:30 Paper #6
Jade Power
Marcela Fuentes, Chair
3:30-4:15 Paper #7
Cristina Rosa
Lynette Hunter, Chair
4:15-4:30 Short Recess
4:30-5:15 Small Group Discussion #1
Wednesday, June 17
10:00-10:45 Paper #8
Dylan Bolles
Peter Kulchyski, Chair
10:45-11:30 Paper #9
Praba Pilar
Marcela Fuentes, Chair
11:30-11:45 Short Recess
11:45-12:30 Paper #10
Lauren McCue
Chair: Lynette Hunter
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Small Group Discussion #2
2:15-3:00 Paper #11
Jaye Austin Williams
Chair: Leo Cabranes-Grant, Chair
3:00-3:45 Paper #12
Rose Elfman
Chair: Lynette Hunter
3:45-4:00 Short Recess
4:00-5:30 Book Discussion #2
Doris Sommer, editor. Cultural Agency in the Americas
Thursday, June 18
9:00-11:30 Professional Training
