Northwestern University, Department of Performance Studies
Graduate Student Conference 2024
The Aesthetics of Race: Affects and Embodiments in Performance
May 3rd—May 4th
Full Conference Program
Free and open to all!
Join us for a two-day conference on the theme, “The Aesthetics of Race: Affects and Embodiments in Performance”. Organized, curated, and hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Performance Studies, the conference will feature keynote lectures by Tina Post, Associate Professor of English and Theater and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago and Kandis Williams, Multidisciplinary Artist and Founder of Cassandra Press, a faculty book talk by Dotun Ayobade, Assistant Professor of Performance Studies and Black Studies, on his upcoming monograph, Queens of Afrobeat: Women, Play, and Fela Kuti’s Music Rebellion (2024), a movement and self-care workshop by Brendan Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Art, Theory, Practice, as well as multiple panels on the study of race in relation to performance.
The Aesthetics of Race: Affects and Embodiments in Performance is generously co-sponsored by The Department of Performance Studies, The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, ART, THEORY, PRACTICE, The Council of Race and Ethnic Studies, The Black Arts Consortium and SLIPPAGE Lab.
Organizing Committee: Archita Arun, Daisy Donají Matias, Clara Lee (Chair), and Olabanke Oyinkansola Goriola
With additional assistance from: Michael Landez, Johanna Middleton, Maulikraj Shrimali, and Camila Simonin
Special thanks to: Thomas DeFrantz, Nadine George-Graves, Zoe McDaniel, and Joshua Rains
Faculty Advisor: Joshua Chambers-Letson
