Schedule
The Graduate Student Initiative of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics presents
Convergence 2012: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation
(November 9 – 11, 2012)
Schedule of Events
Friday, November 9
9am Breakfast and Registration (East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
10:00am Welcome and Opening Remarks (Richard White Lecture Hall)
- Diana Taylor, New York University
- Leticia Robles-Moreno, New York University
- Ana Lee, University of Southern California
- Zach Blas, Duke University
10:30am – 1:00pm Panel 1: Knowledge/Knowledgeable Emancipation: Academia, Activism, Artivism (Richard White Lecture Hall)
- Esther Gabara, Duke University
- Diane Nelson, Duke University
- Macarena Gomez-Barris, University of Southern California
- Walter Mignolo, Duke University
- Diana Taylor, New York University
- Leticia Robles-Moreno, New York University, moderator
1:00pm – 2:30pm Lunch (East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
2:30pm – 5:30pm Working Groups Session 1
*all classrooms are on Duke’s East Campus
- Friedl 102: On-line_off-line Performance
- Friedl 216: Protesting Politics
- Friedl 225: Decolonial and Dewestern Options
- Carr 103: The Politics of Fiction
- Carr 229: Urban Geopolitics
5:30pm – 7:30pm Experimental Communities exhibition and reception, curated by the XCO group (Corridor Gallery and East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
8:00pm – 10:00pm Wildness film screening and discussion, with director Wu Tsang, co-writer Roya Rastegar, Jack Halberstam, and Micha Cárdenas (Richard White Lecture Hall)
Saturday, November 10
9:00am – 12:00pm Working Groups Session 2
*all classrooms are on Duke’s East Campus
- Friedl 102: On-line_off-line Performance
- Friedl 216: Protesting Politics
- Friedl 225: Decolonial and Dewestern Options
- Friedl 204: The Politics of Fiction
- Friedl 240: Urban Geopolitics
12:00pm – 1:30pm Lunch (East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
1:30pm – 4:00pm Panel 2: Protesting Knowledge: Militant Research, Low Theory, and Occupation (Richard White Lecture Hall)
- Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California
- Josh Kun, University of Southern California
- Ricardo Dominguez, University of California San Diego
- Colectivo Situaciones, Argentina
- Michael Hardt, Duke University
- Ana Lee, University of Southern California, moderator
4:00pm – 4:30pm Coffee Break (East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
4:30pm – 7:00pm Panel 3: Geopolitics of Reimagination: Art, Media, and Social Movements (Richard White Lecture Hall)
- Pedro Lasch, Duke University
- Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda, 11th Havana Biennial Curatorial Team
- Brian Holmes, Chicago
- Counter-Cartographies Collective, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Jacques Servin, The Yes Men / New York University
- Zach Blas, Duke University, moderator
7:00pm – 8:00pm Dinner (East Duke Parlors, Women’s Studies / East Duke Building)
8:30pm – 10:00pm Collective Sun: Reshape The Mo(u)rning, performance by SpiritHouse, Durham Arts Council PSI Theatre
*A shuttle bus will depart in front of the East Duke Building at 8pm for the performance; after the performance, the shuttle service will take participants back to the Marriott hotel & the East Duke Building.
Sunday, November 11
8:30am – 9:00am Breakfast (Richard White Lecture Hall Entrance)
9:00am – 10:30am Closing Remarks and Convergence 2013 Projections (Richard White Lecture Hall)
11:00am – 1:00pm AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY: A Question of Collective Action, a seminar with Brian Holmes, El Kilombo Intergaláctico
*Registration is required. Please RSVP to hemi.convergence.seminar@gmail.com by Saturday, November 10, at 9:00am.
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