Institutionalization & Interdisciplinarity—Visual & Performative Ethnography—UPenn—March 20, 2015
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2015-06-21

University of Pennsylvania presents The Visual and Performative Ethnography Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons based peer-produced HowlRound TV network on Friday, March 20, 2015 from 9am EDT to 5pm EDT (New York) / 6am PDT to 2pm PDT (Los Angeles) / 13:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT (London). 

Join us as notable academics from across the United States generate a public conversation regarding visuality, performativity, ethnography, and 21st century multi-modal research. In Twitter, use hashtag #pivpe. 

Participants:
Regina Austin (UPenn), Herman Beavers (UPenn), Karen Beckman (UPenn), Ruth Behar (University of Michigan), Peter Biella (San Francisco State University), Kesha Fikes (The Center for Sensorial Bodywork and Movement Therapy), Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Faye Ginsburg (NYU), John Jackson Jr. (UPenn), E. Patrick Johnson (Northwestern University), Annelise Riles (Cornell University), Jesse Shipley (Haverford College), Diana Taylor (New York University), Elmo Terry-Morgan (Brown University), Deborah Thomas (UPenn), Debra Vidali (Emory University).

Click here for the schedule of livestreaming events on Friday, March 20.

Panel II: Institutionalization and Interdisciplinarity: Where do we locate the visual and the performative within the academy?

How have scholars positioned in different parts of the academy attempted to institutionalize visual and performative work at their respective universities? What strategies have worked best? What methods were deployed to translate conceptual goals into concrete institutional and administrative support? To what extent have these initiatives been driven by curricular concerns and commitments? How have their respective institutional spaces changed over time, and what strategies allow for the most successful means of incorporating a wide array of faculty, graduate students, and undergrads into the Institute’s orbit? To what extent have “local communities” been engaged through these efforts?

Moderator: Herman Beavers (U Penn)

Diana Taylor, Hemi (New York U), Elmo Terry-Morgan, Rites and Reasons (Brown U), Faye Ginsburg, Center for Media, History and Culture (New York U)*, Annelise Riles, Anthropology and Law (Cornell U)

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