Please note that all rooms are located in the Tisch building at 721 Broadway:
Performance Studies Studio 612 (6th floor)
Performance Studies Classroom 613 (6th floor)
Dean’s Conference Room (12th floor)
Friday 4/13
1pm – 2:15pm
Around and Across (PS STUDIO 612)
“Exilic Intersects: Friendships in Flight”
Lucas Girino (Lua) & Joanna Ruth Evans
“Moving Together: Duets, Periperformativity, and Migration”
Vanessa Vargas & Nelesi Rodriguez
Moderator: Christina Yang
>2 (PS CLASSROOM 613)
“1+1=3: Or, An Intergalactic Consideration of Coupledom”
Sage Russo & Lane Lewis
“Cracking the Shell: Is It Possible to Build a Publishing Project From Vulnerability?”
Amelia Santana & Marcela Rodríguez (Pequeño Pato Salvaje – Laboratorio Editorial)
Moderator: Taylor Black
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Performances (PS STUDIO 612)
“Charcoal Foot Travels 2.0”
Nicole C. Limón & Andrea Yaya Porras
“Two-Top, Party of Three”
Denise Rogers Valenzuela & Em Piro
MC: Lakshmi Padmanabhan
4:45pm – 6pm
B(e)-Sides (PS STUDIO 612)
“The Gay Divorcee and An Unmarried Woman”
Marissa Brostoff & Ethan Philbrick
“The (Unhappy) Coupling of High and Low Culture”
Andi Schwartz & Morgan Bimm
Moderator: Andrea Long Chu
≤ 2 (DEAN’S CONFERENCE ROOM)
“Like Mother, Like Daughter”
Vanessa Meyer
“The Machinic Couple: Personhood, Care, and Robotic Technologies”
Erin Obodiac
“Microbial Life and the Permeability of Borders”
Nicole Clouston
Moderator: Michelle Pfeifer
7pm – 8pm (PS STUDIO 612)
Opening Remarks: Olivia Michiko Gagnon & James McMaster
Keynote: “Certains Couples”
Imre Lodbrog et sa Petite Amie
(A.K.A., Barbara Browning & Sébastien Régnier)
Introduced by: Olivia Michiko Gagnon & James McMaster
8pm – 9pm (PS STUDIO 612)
Keynote: “On The Hundreds: Collaboration, Engagement, Attention”
Lauren Berlant & Kathleen Stewart
Introduced by: Fred Moten
9pm – onwards
Reception
Saturday 4/14
10am – 11:30am (PS STUDIO 612)
Workshop: “We Don’t Know What It Is…We Think It Can Be Anything: Fusion Dance as Queer Pedagogy and Space Making”
Fenella Kennedy
12pm – 1:15pm
On Isadora and Gertrude (PS STUDIO 612)
“Orta Davray”
Hannah Brooks-Motl & Ingrid Becker
Moderator: Wendy Lotterman
Holding Space, Keeping Time (DEAN’S CONFERENCE ROOM)
“Meeting Ground”
Sarah Richter & Yve Laris Cohen
“Keeping Casual Time Together”
Leticia Robles-Moreno & Sareh Z. Afshar
Moderator: Christina Yang
2pm – 4pm (PS STUDIO 612)
Performances
Selections from “Fucking with Philosophers”
Kegels for Hegel
“Transitioning(s)”
Zeelie Brown & Yatta Zoker
MC: Cynthia Delgado
4:15pm – 5:30pm
Academic Alliances (PS STUDIO 612)
“Fake Proposal for a Co-Authored Dissertation”
Tara Aisha Willis & Jaime Shearn Coan
“We Out Here to Win: The Couple Form as Tactic”
Kemi Adeyemi & Sampada Aranke
Moderator: Tiana Reid
Fight or Flight (DEAN’S CONFERENCE ROOM)
“‘I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost(ing)’: Refusal, Haunting and Suspension”
Bryony White & Rafael Lubner
“Between Antagonism and Eros: The Feud as Couple Form in Professional Wrestling”
Broderick Chow & Eero Laine
Moderator: Jehan Roberson
6:30pm – 7:30pm (PS STUDIO 612)
Keynote: “Making Some Lorca”
Alexandra T. Vazquez & Germán Labrador Méndez
Introduced by: Malik Gaines
7:30pm – 8:30pm (PS STUDIO 612)
Keynote: “Cancer Twins”
Lisa Duggan & Anna McCarthy
Introduced by: Karen Shimakawa
9pm–onward
Closing Party at VON BAR (3 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012)