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Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2013 Conference

August 03, 2013 School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Professors and students from TDPS attend and present at the 2013 ATHE conference in Orlando, Florida.

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies faculty and students lead and participate in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2013 conference.

A special honorable mention for the ATHE Outstanding Book Award

Laurie Frederik Meer, Associate Professor

Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba (Duke University Press)

The Black Theatre Association’s Companion to The Cambridge Companion to African American  Theatre: a Roundtable

Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Assistant Professor, Participant

Spectacles of Whiteness from Adrienne Kennedy to Suzan-Lori Parks

Playing with, in, and off Hansberry: Re-imagining RAISIN at CENTERSTAGE and Beyond

Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Session Coordinator and Chair

Spotlight on New Works: Discussion of Newly-published Works in the Fields of American Theatre, African American Theatre, and Latino/a Theatre

Laurie Frederik-Meer, Featured Author

Trumpets in the Mountains: Theater and the Politics of National Culture in Cuba

The Visual Accent Dialect Archive

Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA)

Leigh Wilson Smiley, Director and Associate Professor, TDPS, Session Coordinator

The Visual Accent Dialect Archive is a wiki for performers to quickly access visual accent and dialect samples. In this session, you will learn how to donate accents and dialects and how to use this site for learning in the classroom

Musical Theater in Video Games

Michael Boyton, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies, Participant

P[L]aying Spaces: Cultural Production and the Dramaturgy of Space in Urban America

LaRonika Thomas, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies, Session Coordinator

Michael Boynton, Participant

Trek in the Park: Theorizing Outdoor Performance in American Urban Public Parks

Playful Memories

Allan Davis, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies, Participant

Remembering Institutional Play in the Process of Pageants

Kris Messer, Adjunct Professor, TDPS, Participant

Playing on the Tracks: Examining the interplay between Oral History, Local Memory, and Enactment

Historically Black Colleges as Cultural “Play/Ground”: A Roundtable on Identity, Performance, and Pedagogy

Khalid Y. Long, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies, Session Coordinator and Chair

From the Movement to the ClassBlack Revolutionary Praxis and the Development of a Black/Rights Theatre Curriculum

Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Participant

A Changing Sameness, A Sameness for Change: Black Greek Culture and the Performance of Belonging

Violence at Play

Casey Kaleba, PhD Candidate in Theatre and Performance Studies, Participant

Good Wrestling, Which You Have Lost the Sight Of

Playing in the Dark: African American Queer Performance and Performativity

Khalid Y. Long, Participant

Mourning (the) Nation: Subverting Queer, Remembering Malcolm, and Performing X

Community Building, Community Playing

Michael Boynton, Session Coordinator and Chair

Nerd Slam Poetry: Play, Participation, and Identity Formation

Play/Ground Roundtable Series: Playhouse of Praxis, Testing Theories of Play in Rehearsal and Performance

Kris Messer, Participant

From Polly Pockets and Ponies to Strip Poker

Plays that Pay: Live Performance as a Marketplace

Tracey Elaine Chessum, Alumnus TDPS, Participant

The Erotic Economy of Caring: Broadway Bares