2017 Union College (May)
Valerie J. Hoffman (’75) Lecture Series: Feminism for the 21st Century
“Performing Democracy: The Bad and Nasty Collective’s Patriot Acts”
2017 Drama League NY (April)
Staged Conversation with Pulitzer Dramatist Paula Vogel (CU PhD ’16)
2017 Duke University (April)
Franklin Humanities Institute
“The Future is Female” and Other Chronic Desires
2016 The University of Michigan (April)
Writing Lesbianism into History and Representation Working Group
2015 ATHE (Montreal)
“ATHE’s Latent Homosexuality: Notes on the 20th Anniversary of the
LGBTQ Focus Group & the 35th Anniversary of the Women and Theatre
Program”
2015 Bryn Mawr
"Performing Dissent: Zap Actions"
2014 Brown University
Theatre Arts and Performance Studies Colloquium Series
“Child’s Play: Valerie Solanas’ Adolescent Urges and Scummy Desires”
2014 Radcliffe Institute, Harvard
University
Writing Lesbianism into History and Representation Working Group
“Chronic Desires: Theater’s Aching Lesbian Bodies”
2013 CUNY
CLAGS Performing Que(e)ries Series
Graphic Lesbians: a staged conversation with Sara Warner, Lisa Kron,
and Moe Angelos
2013 Elmira College
Keynote Address, 1st Annual Pride Symposium
2013 Plenary, ASTR (Dallas) “Terminal
Maladies and Chronic Desires: Madeleine George’s Aching Lesbian Bodies”
2013
ATHE Performance Studies New Book Colloquium Panel on my book, Acts of
Gaiety, featuring: Jennifer Brody, Jill Dolan, Holly Hughes, Kim Marra,
Megan Shea, and Joseph Cermatori
2013 Harvard University
Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History
"SCUM: Valerie Solanas and the Art of the Chronic"
2012 McGill University
Feminist Performance Seminar
“Affect, Performance, Politics: The Five Lesbian Brothers”
2012 Washington and Lee University
“Zapping History: Gay Marriage Protests 1969 & 2009”
2010 University of Alberta
Feminist Researchers Speaker Series
“Jill Johnston’s Acts of Gaiety”
2010 Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies/CUNY
“A Gay Old Time: Political Affects, Temporal Logics, Queer Performance”
2009 Harvard University
Gender and Sexuality Seminar Series
“Emotional States: The Lesbian Nation as Affective Cartography”
2009 Harvard University
Performing Gender seminar
“Staging Dissent: Theater For Incarcerated Women”
2009 Juilliard
Humanities Lecture Series
“Scared Straight(s): The Theatrics of Lesbian Terrorism”
2006 Rutgers University
Women, Poetry, and Politics: A Conference in Honor of Alicia Suskin
Ostriker "The Storytellers: Alicia Ostriker & Walter Benjamin"
2004 Rutgers University
Symposium Celebrating 50 Years of Comparative Literature "Mythic
Proportions: The Medea Project’s Theater For Incarcerated Women"
“Editorializiing Your Expertise: How to Craft and
Pitch a Successful Thought Piece,” Society for the Study of Women
Writers 2017 (Bordeaux, France)
“Serious Fun: Lesbian Humor and Social Justice, 1960-2000,” Berkshire
Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities 2017
(Hofstra)
“Paula Vogel’s Transtemporal Erotics” ASTR 2016 (Minneapolis)
“The Tender Track” ATHE 2016 (Chicago)
"Queer Scholarship: Past, Present, Future" ATHE 2015
(Montreal)
"Archiving Revolutions, Anthologizing Movements" WTP
2015 (Montreal)
Organizer: PMA Sesquicentennial Celebration at Cornell
Staged Conversation with Paula Vogel (CU '77), David Savran (CU '79)
Past Officers Panel: Addressing the Past and Future
of Women in/and Theater WTP 2014 (Phoenix)
“A Gay Old Time: Jill Johnston 1975” ALA 2013 (Boston)
“Guerrilla Acts: Marriage Protests 1969 & 2009”
NEMLA 2013 (Boston)
“Chronic Desires, Terminal Maladies: Theater’s Aching
Lesbian Bodies” Angels in Performance (Columbia, MO)
“Chronic Desires, Terminal Maladies: Theater’s Aching
Lesbian Bodies”PSi (Stanford)
"Valerie Solanas and the Art of the Chronic" ASTR 2012
(Nashville)
Working Group: Performance and Everyday Life: Histories of the
Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated"
“Chronic Desires: Lisa Kron’s Aching Lesbian Bodies”
IFTR 2012 (Santiago, Chile)
“Blue Collars in Ivory Towers” ATHE 2012 (Washington,
D.C.)
“Hothead Paisan: A Lesbian Comedy of Terrors” ATHE
2012 (Washington, D.C.)
Co-curator with Nick Salvato: “Resoundingly
Queer” Cornell (March 2012)
Featuring keynotes by: John Waters, Jill Dolan, and David Savran;
Presentations by: Moe Angelsos, Robin Bernstein, Margo Crawford, Terry
Galloway, Madeleine George, LIGHT (a.k.a., DRED), Brian Herrera, Holly
Hughes, Nat Hurley, Eng-Beng Lim, Joan Lipkin, Mary Lorson, José E.
Muñoz, Jimmy Noriega, Ann Pellegrini, Judith Peraino, Sue Perlgut,
Masha Raskolnikov, Jordan Schildcrout, Susan Stryker, Byron
Suber,Carmelita Tropicana, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Amy Villarejo, and
Shane Vogel.
Roundtable: Feminist Performance/Feminist Pedagogies
2011 ASTR (Montreal)
Working Group: 1973 or a Moment Like It “A Gay old
Time” 2011 ASTR (Montreal)
“Importing
Jill Johnston: Toward an Affective Cartography of the Lesbian Nation”
Canadian Association for Theatre Research (New Brunswick)
Affect/Theatre/Canada Working Group 2011
“Feeling Louise Fishman” ATHE 2011 (Chicago)
“Restorytive Justice for Razor Wire Women” ATHE 2011
(Chicago)
“The Tender Track: Feminist Activism in the
Academy”ATHE 2011 (Chicago)
"A
Staged Interview with Sue Perlgut, Co-founder of It’s All Right To Be
Woman Theatre" In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: 70s Lesbian Feminism
(CLAGS, Oct 8-10)
"Emotional States: Performing an Affective Cartography
of the Lesbian Nation" ASTR 2009 (Puerto Rico)
"Feminist Performance: Past, Present and Future" ATHE
2009 (NYC)
"The Glass Proscenium" ATHE 2009 (NYC)
"Cause Celeb: Dissecting McCain's Political Ads in the
2008 Presidential Election" ATHE 2009 (NYC)
"The Humorlessness of Homonormativity" ATHE 2008
(Denver)
Panelist, "Remaking Mimesis: The Future of Feminism"
ATHE 2008 (Denver)
"Affective Interventions into Second Wave Feminisms"
ASTR 2007 Feminist Historiography Working Group (Phoenix)
“Intracultural
Interventions: A Reply to Rustom Bharucha’s The Politics of Cultural
Practice: Thinking Through Theatre in an Age of Globalization," Cornell
Society for the Humanities (Fall 2007)
"Apartheid, or
Truth, Reconciliation and the Performance of History: The Repatriation
of Sarah Baartman" IFTR 2007 (South Africa)
"Affective Labor" ATHE 2007 (New Orleans)
"Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist...The
Musical?" ATHE 2007 (New Orleans)
"Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists and the Ethics of Anger"
Cornell American Studies Symposium on the 1970s (2007)
"Hot Bi Chicks: Margaret Cho and Denise Uyehara's Mad
Kabuki Women" ATHE 2006 (Chicago)
“Habeas Corpus, Bodies of Evidence, and "Tails" of
Injustice: Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus" PSI 2006 (London)
“Theater's
Imaginary Domain” Drama Division Panel, Modern Language Association
2005 (Washington, D.C.)
"Teaching Theater History,
Revising the Canon, and Other Unnatural Acts" Canonical Revisions and
World Literatures Panel, Modern Language Association 2005 (Washington,
D.C.)
“"We do it Because We're Bad': Subversive
Sexuality and Agential Anger in the Five Lesbian Brothers' The
Secretaries" Queer Research Group, American Society for Theatre
Research (ASTR) 2005 (Toronto)
"Staging Motherhood: Text,
Context, and Performance in Contemporary Theater and Culture" American
Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) 2005 (Toronto)
Coordinator,
“Making Waves: Bridging Activism, Feminism & Performance" 25th
Annual Women & Theatre Program Conference July 26 & 27, 2005
(San Francisco)
"The LWord: Lacuna" Women and Theatre Program/ATHE
2005 (SF)
Co-coordinator,
“Reality Theater Symposium" Keynotes: Leigh Fondakowski and Carson
Kreitzer, Cornell University April 28-30, 2005
“Hothead, Avengers and SCUM: The Homicidal Lesbian
Terrorist Storms the Stage"
Performance Studies International 2005(Providence)
“Utopia
Behind Bars: Rhodessa Jones' Medea Project, Theater for Incarcerated
Women" WOMEN” Drama Division Panel, Modern Language Association 2004
(Philadelphia)
"'Do You Know What Bitch is Backwards'?:
Mythical Disidentification in the Medea Project, Theater for
Incarcerated Women" Women's Studies in Language and Literature,
Modern Language Association 2004 (Philadelphia)
“Engendering
Violence on Stage: Cruel Displays" Women in Theater Program,
Association of Theatre in Higher Education 2004 (Toronto)
“From
Hothead to SCUM: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorists Storm the Stage"
Engendering Violence On Stage: Bodily Injury Panel, Women in Theater
Program, Association of Theatre in Higher Education 2004 (Toronto)
“Toward
an Ethics of Cruelty in Contemporary Feminist Performance" Women
Writing Violence in American Drama Panel, Rocky Mountain Modern
Language Association 2004 (Boulder)
“Mythic Proportions:
The Medea Project, Theater for Incarcerated Women" Drama Division
Panel, Chair Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 2004 (Boulder)
“Engendering
Violence on Stage: Towards and Ehtics of Cruelty in Contemporary
American Performance" American Theater and Drama Society Panel,
American Literature Association 2004 (San Francisco)
Co-organizer,
"Performing Communities" 12th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference for
Graduate Scholarship Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary
Culture (CCACC), Keynote: Fred Moten (NYU), Rutgers, February 15, 2002
Organizer, "Aesthetics and Activism"
Keynote: The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, Rutgers,
December 4-5, 2001
"'Do
You Know What Bitch is Backwards'?: Mythical Disidentification in the
Medea Project, Theater for Incarcerated Women" Center for Critical
Analysis of Contemporary Culture Rutgers, November 28, 2001
"e-pedagogy@novice.com
:: Integrating Technology into the Humanities Curriculum"
Conference: How to Use Technology in the Humanities, Rutgers,
April 6, 2000
“Performance Anxieties: Science, Sexuality
and Safe Counsel" Conference: In the Beginnings: Temporal, Spatial, and
Textual Origins"
Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC), Rutgers,
March 2000
"Fostering
Technological Literacy Among Female Students in a First Year Mission
Course" Conference: The American Association of Colleges and
Universities (AAC&U), Best Practices Session, Washington D.C.,
January 2000
Co-coordinator, "New World (dis)Orders:
Globalization, Culture & Identity" 4th Annual Comparative
Literature Conference
Keynotes: Homi K.Bhabha, bell hooks, Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers,
February 18 and 19, 1999
"Integrating
Technology into the Humanities Curriculum" Conference: Annual
Teaching Assistantship Project Orientation Rutgers, Fall 1999
"The
Computer and Internet as Tools for Mentoring: How Can Technology Add to
Course Based Mentoring Relationships?" Conference: Douglass
College Annual Teacher Appreciation Day, Douglass College, November
1998
"Resistence is Futile: Baudrillard Meets the Borg"
Conference: Boundaries in Question
University of California, Berkeley, March 1998
"Technology
& Pedagogy in the Humanities: Intro to World Myth Course Web Portal
Demo" 1997 Digital Media Exhibition, Rutgers, Spring 1997
Co-coordinator, Institute for Research on Women Annual
Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers 1997
"Medea:
Conduct Unbecoming" Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference,
San Francisco State University 1995
"The Domino Effect: The Enigmatic Structure of Kate
Chopin's Desiree's Baby" Fourth Annual Kate Chopin Conference
Natchitoches, Louisiana, April 1995
