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Dr. Diana Taylor, Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off
The TCI/SETS Distinguished Lecture Series Presents:
Dr. Diana Taylor, Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU
Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off
What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated, the media sequestered in the hands of the power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in a way that is seen as transparent and legitimate? By looking at protest movements such as Mexico’s contested election of 2006 to #Occupy Wall Street, this talk explores the importance of bodies in politics–both online and on the streets.
She is the author of the award-winning Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “ Dirty War” (1997), and most recently The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke U.P. 2003), which won the Outstanding Book from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education, and the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for Best Book in Latin American and Hispanic Studies from the Modern Language Association.
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 4:30 – 5:30p.m.
Place: Room 107 MacKinnon Building (Music wing, north end of bldg.)
Reception to follow at TransCanada Institute
9 University Avenue East
Graduate Seminar with Dr. Taylor
Date: Wednesday, January 18 at 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Place: TransCanada Institute, 9 University Ave. East, University of Guelph
Topic: “The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas”
Chapter One, download at:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/53209780/Taylor%20chapter1.PDF
- Seminar accompanied by a light luncheon.
- Open to all interested graduate students on a first-come basis.
- Because of limited seating, please register by email: transcan@uoguelph.ca
If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation, please contact TransCanada Institute to make appropriate arrangements.
For More Information:
Email: transcan@uoguelph.ca
Phone: 519-824-4120 ext. 56825
Web: www.transcanadas.ca
Dec 20, 2011 9:42 pm