Artful Strategies/Necessary Risks: 
The Politics of Play and Performance

3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference
April 18 and 19, 2008
California Suite, University Union
California State University, Sacramento

Friday Panels and Times
Saturday Panels and Times

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008

1:00 – 1:25: Registration

1:30 – 2:30: Cardboard Objects, Artistic Projects, and Tactical Play
Chair:  Hellen Lee Keller

“La Cédille qui ne finit pas.” 
Natilee Harren, Art History, UC Los Angeles

“Antanas Mockus and the tactical use of ‘generative play’ in Colombia.”
Karen Greiner, Communication Studies, Ohio University

2:45 – 4:15: Defining Values through Academic and Revolutionary Performance
Chair:  Wendy Matlock

“Subversive Play: Rediscovering the Terror of the Sublime.”
Philip C. DiMare, Humanities and Religious Studies, CSU Sacramento

“Performing the Revolution: The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the American Revolution Bicentennial.”
Julie Longo, Liberal Arts, College for Creative Studies

"Brahmins at Play: the Artful Strategies of Traditional Hindu Debate."
Joel Dubois, Humanities and Religious Studies, CSU Sacramento

4:30 – 5:30:  Civic and Personal Engagement through Provocative Play
Chair:  Cindi SturtzSreetharan

"Confronting Climate Chaos with Satire." 
Larry Bogad, Theatre and Dance Department, UC Davis

“36 JEWISH GESTURES (FOR JOE, WITH LOVE).”
Nina Otis Haft, Theatre and Dance Department, CSU East Bay

5:30: COCKTAIL HOUR 

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 2008

9:00 – 10:30:  The Politics of Representation: Rap, Religion, and Theatre
Chair:  Sujatha Moni

"'Seduced by Palpable Fooleries':  Performance and Politics in early modern English Demonic Possession Propaganda."
Erika Gasser, History, CSU Sacramento

"I'm Sorry Mama: Eminem, 8 Mile, and the Dangers of Possessive Individualism." 
Kim Hester-Williams, English Department, Sonoma State

“Politics of Deconstruction: Are Contemporary Western Playwrights using the Stage to Examine Power Relations between East and West?”
Karen Nylund, Theatre and Dance, CSU Sacramento

10:45 – 11:45:  Improvisation as Intercultural Dialogue
Chair:  Cindi SturtzSreetharan

“InterPlaying India: Improvisation as Intercultural Dialogue.”
Katherine Kunz and Gretchen Wegner, Artists

12:00 – 1:00: LUNCH

1:15 – 2:15:  The Americana Indian
Chair:  Erin Stiles

“Indian fore play: The Artefacts of Desire and Aversion.”
Brian Baker (Bad River Chippewa), Ethnic Studies, CSU Sacramento

“A Shattered Looking Glass:  ‘The Americana Indian’ Exhibit as Ethnographic Mirror and Text.” 
Terri Castaneda, Anthropology, CSU Sacramento

2:30 – 4:00:  Performing Language:  Preachers, Presidents, and Wizards
Chair:  Philip DiMare

"’And frankly I think they are better looking than we are’: Play and Frivolity in Face-to-Face Interaction Among Unequals."
John T. Clark, English, CSU Sacramento

“Performing the Nation through the Discourse of Modernity: A Critique of Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger and President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, SIPA-World Leaders.”
Joseph Henry, Anthropology, CSUS

"Fight Evil, Read Books, Write Music."
Jennifer Terrell, Anthropology, CSU Sacramento

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