Conferences and Lectures
Conferences and Lectures
Conferences and Panels:
Working Session Co-chair: “The Body (Un)censored: Eastern European Performance and Physical Politics.” American Society for Theatre Research, November 2010.
Roundtable Co-organizer and Moderator: “Truth or Doubt?: Galileo, Brecht, and Scientific Accountability.” Invited speakers included Friedeman Weidauer, Serena Parekh and Gary English. Organized in conjunction with the UConn Foundations of Humanitarianism program and the Year of Science. December 2009.
Panel Chair (Russian art, theatre, dance): "Performing Identity/Painting Biography in East-European Exilic Art and Writing." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, November 2009.
Panel Discussant: "The Function of 'Writing Lives' Within Modernist Autobiographical Discourse." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, November 2009.
Discussion Organizer and Moderator: “The American Justice System and The Exonerated.” Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Speakers included UConn Law School faculty, the director of the Connecticut Innocence Project, and a recent exoneree. October 2009.
Co-organizer: Tufts Graduate Colloquium. Spring 2001.
Conference Papers:
“American Expressionism at the Moscow Kamerny Theatre: Alexander Tairov’s Productions of The Hairy Ape and Machinal.” Paper to be presented at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, November 2010.
“The Many Layers of Galileo: Myth and Montage in Brecht’s Galileo.” Paper to be presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference, August 2010.
“Guilt and Innocence: The Exonerated on the Stage and in the News.” Paper to be presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference, August 2010.
“Mapping an Émigré Community: Boris Chaliapin’s Theatrical Portraiture.” Paper presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies annual conference, November 2009.
“Machinal in Moscow: Innovations in American Expressionism at the Kamerny Theatre,” Paper presented at the American Theatre and Drama Society/ American Literature Association annual conference, May 2009.
“A Theatrical Zig-zag: Meyerhold’s Grotesque in Columbine’s Scarf.” Paper presented at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, March 2009.
“Mapping an Émigré Community: Boris Chaliapin’s Theatrical Portraiture.” Panelist for Working Session, “The Diasporic Imagination Research Group” at the American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, Nov. 2008.
“Directing Commedia: Tairov’s 1920 Princess Brambilla at the Kamerny Theatre.” Paper presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education annual conference, Aug. 2008.
“Boris Chaliapin: Artist in Emigration.” Paper presented at the conference “Compatriots Abroad: Descendents of Great Russians,” organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Moscow, July 2008.
“Theorizing the Marionette in Silver-Age Russian Theatre.” Paper presented at the conference “Bringing Dolls to School: Theorizing Performing Objects,” Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, CUNY, April 2007.
“Sergei Ignatov and ‘Hoffmanniana’ in Russian Silver–Age Theatre.” Paper presented at the International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference, June 2005.
“Loïe Fuller and Isadora Duncan: Constructing the Female Dancing Body.” Seminar paper presented at the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association annual conference, Oct. 2004.
“Actors’ Theatre and Puppet Theatre in Silver–Age Russian Theatre.” Seminar paper presented at the Comparative Drama Conference, April 2004.
“Spectres on the New York Stage: The (Pepper’s) Ghost Craze of 1863.” Seminar paper presented at the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research, November 2002.
“The Sacred and Profane in the Eastern–European Puppet Nativity.” Seminar paper presented at the Mid–Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association annual conference, November 2002.
Invited Lectures:
“Dramaturgy for the Puppet Stage: Discussion and Workshops.” Panelist, Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry, November 2009.
“Community and Cultural Identity in Boris Chaliapin's Art and Archive.” Harvard University, Literature and Culture Lecture Series, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, April 2009.
“The Life and Art of Boris Chaliapin.” Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT. Public lecture for the exhibit Boris Chaliapin's Faces of History, April 2009.
“Political Puppetry and Social Activist Imagery.” Boston College Theatre Department, March 2008.
“Live and Wooden Actors in Russian Silver-Age Theatrical Culture.” Columbia University, Harriman Institute, December 2007.
“Visual Translations of Shakespeare: Poetic Violence in Julie Taymor’s Titus.” Pine Manor College English Department, February 2004.
“Balinese Wayang Kulit.” Eastern Nazarene College Theatre Department, January 2001.
