Reno 2015
2015 Conference Schedule
PDF map available here (includes dining info and directions to the Church Fine Arts Building).
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20
• 1:00-4:00 On-Site Registration/Check-In - First Floor Box Office/Lobby, Church Fine Arts Building (CFA)
• 4:00-5:30 Paper Panel - Room 153, Church Fine Arts Building (CFA)
Dr. Jodie Barker, "Toward A New Earth: Werewere Liking's Subversive Rituals"
Dr. Alyssa Schmidt, "Eco-Dramaturgy in Learning Environments: Context and Strategy"
Leslie Gulden, "Missed Opportunities: Ecocriticism, Design Aesthetics and Peter and the Starcatcher."
• 5:30 Open Rehearsal
thirst - 2015 Winner EMOS New Play Contest - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Written by MEH Lewis and Anita Chandwaney
THURSDAY, MAY 21
• 9:00-11:00 On-Site Registration/Check-In - First Floor Box Office/Lobby, Church Fine Arts Building (CFA)
• 9:30-10:30 Wilding Performance: Developing an Ecological Performance Practice - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Sarah Hopfinger
• 9:30-10:30 Syllabus Working Session Part 1 - Room 152, CFA
Dr. Wendy Arons
• 10:30-12:00 Walking the Climate Change Line - Room 19, CFA
Plantable Performance Research Collective, Lisa Woynarski & Bronwyn Preece
• 1:00-2:30 Keynote
The Case of "Professor Nanuq": Environmental Justice, Representation, and the Challenges of Ecodrama - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Dr. Theresa May
• 2:30-4:30 MIMESIS: Neutral Mask and Embodying the More-Than-Human - Room 19, Church Fine Arts Building (CFA)
Denise Kenney
• 4:30-6:00 Film Screening
Mysterious Lake - Room 153, CFA
Izumi Ashizawa
• 6:00 Reading
The Autopsy of Honey Bees - 2015 Second-Place Winner EMOS New Play Contest - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Written by Stevie Stern
FRIDAY, MAY 22
• 9:00-10:00 Syllabus Working Session Part 2 - Room 152, CFA
Dr. Wendy Arons
• 9:00-11:00 Singing the Body Electric: Aging, Ageism and Female Body Ecology - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Dr. Marnie Glazier
• 10:00-11:30 A Conversation with the CSPA - Room 18, CFA
Ian Garrett & Moe Beitiks
• 12:15-1:45 Keynote
The Long Road Today - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Jose Cruz Gonzalez
• 2:00-3:30 Paper Panel - Room 152, CFA
Dr. Gabrielle Barnett (via Skype), "Where Are You?: Navigating Performance"
Dr. Mimi Kammer, "Practical Ecodramaturgy: Staging Ecocritical Interpretations of Conventional Plays"
Lisa Woynarski, "Performing Bio-Urban: Ecological Performance Practice in London"
• 2:00-4:00 Chlorophyllogica - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Jonah Winn-Lenetsky
• 4:15-5:45 Film Screening
Site-Specific Dance and the Environment - Room 153, CFA
Third Coast Film Festival, Rosie Trump
• 6:00 Reading
thirst - 2015 Winner EMOS New Play Contest - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Written by MEH Lewis and Anita Chandwaney
SATURDAY, MAY 23
• 9:00-10:30 Smellbound: An Artful Somatics Ambling Walking Tour - Room 19, CFA
Petra Kuppers and Stephanie Heit
• 9:00-10:30 Daylighting the Classroom: The Sensory Exploration - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Shimshon Obadia
• 10:45-12:15 Keynote
Bioregional Roots of Reinhabitory Theater: Celebrating Peter Berg, Life-Actor and Agent Provocateur - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Dr. Cheryll Glotfelty
• 1:00-3:30 Daylighting the Classroom: The Sensory Exploration (continued) - Redfield Studio Theatre, CFA
Shimshon Obadia
• 1:30-3:00 Paper Panel - Room 152, CFA
Rebecca Struch, "Unlikely Encounters: Community Aesthetics of Place among Politics of Urban Space"
Dr. Sarah Ann Standing, "350.org as Eco-Activist Theatre and Performance"
Moe Beitiks, Discourse:Projector:Plant:Filter
• 3:30-5:00 Film Screening
Dropped in the Ocean & Cacophonous Silence - Room 153, CFA
Bronwyn Preece