Schedule of Events
Boccaccio's Decameron STORYTELLING IN PERFORMANCE: WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Friday, October 1, 2004

INITIAL ROUNDTABLES: PERSPECTIVES ON STORYTELLING:

Maison Francaise

10-12AM - Storytelling across the Disciplines

Felice Aull (NYU: Medicine); Jerome Bruner (NYU: Law); Linda Gordon (NYU: History); Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (NYU: Performance Studies); Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J. (Fordham: Philosophy); Robin Nagle (NYU: Draper Program); Kay Turner (NYU: Performance Studies; Brooklyn Council of the Arts), Timmie (E.B.) Vitz (NYU: French)

Lunch

2-4 - Storytellers in Performance

Mark Franko (UCSanta Cruz: Theater; Visiting Prof. Columbia U), Kyra Gaunt (NYU: Music), Peggy Pettitt (Performer;Tisch: Drama-Experimental Theater), Lea Thau (Executive and Creative Director, "The Moth") ,Steve Zeitlin (Dir., "City Lore")

4-5:30 Reception

 

Friday November 5, 2004

STORYTELLING IN THE PROFESSIONS

1:00-3:00 - Storytelling and Law

Jerome Bruner (NYU: Law), speaker + discussants: Anthony Amsterdam (NYU: Law), Peter Goodrich (Cardozo: Law), Carol Greenhouse (Princeton: Anthropology) and Linda Mills (NYU: Vice Provost; lawyer)

3:00-3:30 - Refreshments

3:30-5:30 - Storytelling and Medicine

Rita Charon (Columbia University: College of Physicians and Surgeons), speaker + discussants, including Felice Aull (NYU: Medicine), Mary Marshall Clark (Columbia University: Oral History Research Office) and Roy Schafer (NYC Psychoanalyst).

5:30-6:30 - Reception

 

Friday, December 3, 2004

STORYTELLING IN AMERICAN HISTORY

10:00AM-12:30PM - Speakers:

David Dante Troutt (Rutgers Law): "'Glow in the Dark': Alienation, Storytelling and Problems of Legal Memory"

Martha Hodes (NYU: History): "If Nothing Happens: Skin-Color, Memory, and the Problem of Family Stories"

Discussant: Michael Gomez (NYU: History)

Lunch

2:00-4:30 - Speakers:

Bruce Dorsey (Swarthmore: History): "Murder in a Mill Town"

James Goodman (Rutgers University: History): "Blackout"

Discussant: Bryant Simon (Temple University: History)

4:30-5:30 - Reception

 

Friday, December 10, 2004: Holiday Party: 6:30-8:30

PERFORMING MEDIEVAL STORIES TODAY

6:30-7:00 - Reception

7:00-7:30 - Guided tour of the new NYU website, "Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase," co-directed by Timmie Vitz, Nancy Regalado and Marilyn Lawrence, and produced by Jennifer Vinopal, Digital Studio (Bobst Library)

7:30-8:30 - Storytelling performances by students and alumni of Timmie Vitz's "Acting Medieval Literature"

 

Friday, February 4, 2005

GRADUATE STUDENT ROUNDTABLES: Storytelling across the Disciplines

ORGANIZED BY REGINE JOSEPH (French)

9:00 a.m. -- 10:00 a.m.: Chaucer Project
Mark Hewitt, Ammanda Leff, Adam Coccaro with Martha Rust and David Hoover

10:15 a.m. -- 11:15 p.m.: Storytelling in Medieval Art
Mark Cruse (NYU, French), Anna Russakoff (NYU, Institute of Fine Arts), Elizabeth Monti (NYU, Institute of Fine Arts)

11:30 a.m. ­ 12:30 p.m.: Storytelling and History
Oghenetoja Okoh (NYU, History (panel moderator)), Sarah Cornel (NYU, History), Taja-Nia Henderson, Brian Purnell, Sherie Randolph

12:45 p.m.: Lunch

1:30 p.m. -- 2:30 p.m.: Storytelling in the Postcolonial Context
Anna Brigido-Corachan (NYU, Comparative Literature): Native Oralituras: Narrating the Historical in Southern Mexico
Sabrina Waldron (NYU, Comparative Literature): Carnival as Performance
Jennifer Darrah (Brown University, Sociology): Hawaiian conflict resolution
Régine Isabelle Joseph (NYU) French Writing on Record in Haitian Oralitures

2:45 p.m. -- 3:45 p.m.: Hybrid Tales/Tells
Neeraj Mahadoo: Indian Oral Traditions
Stéphanie Richard: Hybrid Tales in Tahiti: Performative Texts
Amma Ghartey-Tago (NYU Tisch): Performance Studies
Sigi (NYU, Institute of French Studies): Aghan Performance of War

4:00 ­ 5:00 p.m.: Storytellers in Performance
Mallika Keister (Columbia, French), Amma Ghartey-Tago (NYU Tisch, Performance Studies)

5:00 p.m.: Reception

STORYTELLING: IN THE MIDDLE AGES

1:00-3:00 - Moderator: Nancy Freeman Regalado (NYU: French)

Speakers:

    Marilyn Lawrence (NYU: French): "The Storyteller's Verbal Jonglerie in "The Romance of Renart the Fox"
    Timmie (E.B.) Vitz (NYU: French): "Erotic Reading and Reperformance of Medieval Romance"
Respondents:
    Laurie Postlewate (Barnard College: French)
    Kathy Talarico (College of Staten Island: Romance Languages)
3:00-3:30 - Refreshments

3:30-5:30 - Moderator: Evelyn (Timmie) Birge Vitz (NYU: French)

Speakers:

    Nancy F. Regalado (NYU: French): "Why Perform the Stories of Arthur?"
    John Ahern (Vassar College: Italian): "Dioneo and the Storyteller's Art in the Decameron"
Respondents:
    Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Paris IV, Visiting Professor at Princeton)
    Jane Tylus (NYU: Italian)
5:30-6:30 - Reception

PERFORMANCES/ DEMONSTRATION-TALKS [dates TBA]

Benjamin Bagby: Beowulf

Katarina Livjanic and Marija Durrigl: Vision of Tundale

Theodora Skipitares: Helen Queen of Sparta

Anne Azema, Tristan

Joel Cohen, Fauvel

Lorie Brau (U New Mexico: Foreign Languages and Literatures ),: Japanese rakugo

Kyra Gaunt (NYU: Music), hip-hop;

Peggy Pettitt (performer, NYU: Drama), scenes/narratives from the African-American community.

Friday, April 15, 2005

FINAL FORUM

2:30-4:30: Participants TBA

Final Reception

 

 

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