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Convergence 2014 |Bodies-In-Transit: Articulating the Americas (and Beyond) | October 2-5, 2014 - New York City

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*Unless otherwise noted, all events will take place in Hemmerdinger Hall (NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East at Waverly Place, Manhattan.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

12m – 2pm Registration of Convergence participants (Lobby of Hemmerdinger Hall)

2pm - 2:15pm Welcoming Remarks (Hemmerdinger Hall)

Leticia Robles-Moreno, Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, and Kerry Whigham, Co-Organizers
Diana Taylor, Founding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
David W. McLaughlin, Provost, New York University

2:15pm – 3:45pm First panel | Urban Politics and Education: Reclaiming the City (Hemmerdinger Hall)

Alyshia Gálvez (CUNY) & Nara Milanich (Barnard College, co-founder of the DREAM Act Faculty Alliance): “From Educator to Ally: How Faculty Can (and Should) Overcome Fear and Advocate for Fair policies Regarding Undocumented Students”
Iván Smirnov (Universidad de Barcelona): "Prestadas y revueltas: Algunas palabras desde el movimiento estudiantil en Chile" ("Borrowed and Mixed-Up: Some Words from the Student Movement in Chile")
Rossana Reguillo (ITESO, Guadalajara): “Cuerpos desobedientes: Movilizaciones, movimientos y revueltas en el declive civilizatorio” (“Disobedient Bodies: Mobilization, Movements and Revolts in the Decline of Civilization”)
Moderator: Leticia Robles-Moreno (New York University)

3:45pm – 4:15pm Coffee break (Lobby of Hemmerdinger Hall)

4:15pm – 5:45pm Second Panel | Globalization, Migration, and Human Rights (Hemmerdinger Hall)

Tomás Gershanik (Secretaría de Hábitat y Inclusión, Buenos Aires, Argentina): “Ideas para la inclusión cultural en la ciudad informal: Buenos Aires Intercultural” (“Ideas for Cultural Inclusion in the Informal City: Intercultural Buenos Aires”)
Angel Sutjipto (Cardozo Law School, New York): “(Re)Claiming Migrant Rights as Human Rights”
Patricia Viscarra (US Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia): “We All Are Responsible for Human Rights”
Moderator: Kerry Whigham (New York University)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3

9:00am –12:30 pm Working Group Sessions [Open to Convergence participants only]
  • — What's on Offer Today: Entering the City in Performance
    — (Social) Bodies in Transition: Reflections and Networks in Post-Dictatorship Latin America
    — The Body Theatrical: Politics, Performance, and the City
    — Gentrification, Resistance, and Cultural Heritage: Performing and Claiming Rights in/to the Global City
    — Playing Dress-Up: Fashion, Gender, and the Politics of Embodiment
    — Performance Philosophy and Its Politics
    — The Politics of Fiction
    — Punk Bodies and Transits
    — Trans-memory, Diaspora, and Performance
    — Trans*/Performance
    — The Traumatized Body in Public Space
    — Sound and the City
    — Queer Archives: Bodies and Desires In Transit
    — Performing Disability, Enabling Performance
2pm – 3:30pm Third Panel | Visual Indigeneity and Bodies (Hemmerdinger Hall)

Dean Itsuji Saranillio (NYU): “The Million Dollar Hoax on Hawai‘i’s Tourism Industry: Settler Capitalism and the Trickster Sammy Amalu”
Amalia Córdova (NYU): “Following the Path of the Serpent: indigenous film festivals and their networks”
Jorge Coronado (Northwestern University): “Photographic Portraiture and Consumption in Bolivia and Peru, 1900-1950”
Claudia Arteaga (Rutgers University): “Producing Indigenous Subjects and Land through Documentary”
Moderator: Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa (Columbia University)

3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee break
 
4pm – 5:45pm Fourth Panel | Cruising Utopias: Performance, Bodies, and Political Imagination (Hemmerdinger Hall)

In loving memory of José Muñoz
Joshua Guzmán (NYU): "Notes on the Comedown"
Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University/NYU): "Liking Andy Warhol"  
Leticia Alvarado (Brown University): "After José: In search of the Utopian in Ana Mendieta’s Siluetas Series"
Respondent: Ann Pellegrini (NYU)
Moderator: Leticia Robles-Moreno (NYU)

Ecstatic_Corona Performance by  Patricia Ticineto Clough, Elizabeth Garcia, Omar Montana, Yeong Ran Kim, Elijah Kuan Wong, and Mac Morris 

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4

9:00am –12:00 pm - Working Group Sessions [Open to Convergence participants only]
    • — What's on Offer Today: Entering the City in Performance
      — (Social) Bodies in Transition: Reflections and Networks in Post-Dictatorship Latin America
      — The Body Theatrical: Politics, Performance, and the City
      — Gentrification, Resistance, and Cultural Heritage: Performing and Claiming Rights in/to the Global City
      — Playing Dress-Up: Fashion, Gender, and the Politics of Embodiment
      — Performance Philosophy and Its Politics
      — The Politics of Fiction
      — Punk Bodies and Transits
      — Trans-memory, Diaspora, and Performance
      — Trans*/Performance
      — The Traumatized Body in Public Space
      — Sound and the City
      — Queer Archives: Bodies and Desires In Transit
      — Performing Disability, Enabling Performance
2:00 pm – 5pm Urban Interventions

Featuring CEGOS (BLIND) NEW YORK, by Desvio Coletivo & Coletivo Pi, Brazil (Union Square and NYC streets - route TBD)

Urban Interventions:
** NOTE: Urban Interventions will take place Sunday 10/5 in Union Square, times TBA
  • André Rodrigues (UNIRIO, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil): Talk To Me
  • Sandra Bonomini (PUCP, Peru / FAV, Brazil): Soy mujer, entonces yo tengo la culpa (I am a woman, therefore I am guilty)
  • Irina Contreras (California College of Arts, USA): A Racket Is A Racket
  • Didier Morelli (Northwestern University, USA): Against the Grain
  • Leandra Lambert (CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education of Brazil), NYC Ghosts and Voices [pre-registration required]
  • Paola Torres Nuñez del Prado (Konstfack University College/Stockholm University, Sweden): Sonic Maps: Overlapping Cities [pre-registration required]
  • Zena Bibler (The Movement Party, USA): Relationscapes (Sensory Walk) [pre-registration requested] 
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Optional Tour for Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Pre-registration Required) (US Customs House, 1 Bowling Green, NYC)

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Optional Tour for Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (Pre-registration Required) (155 Avenue C, NYC)

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Optional Tour of Museo del Barrio (Pre-Registration Required) (1230 Fifth Avenue, NYC)

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5

9:30am – 10:30am

Working Groups Organization

11am – 1pm

Cross-pollination of Working Groups

1pm –  1:15pm

Closing Remarks 

The 2014 Hemi GSI Convergence is made possible by the generous support of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU); the Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas, funded in large part through Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); the Department of Performance Studies (NYU); the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (NYU); Tisch School of the Arts (NYU); the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures (NYU); and the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures (Columbia).