Prelude

Friday, March 21^st

7:30pm

Staged Reading

Braithwaite Hall

A Woman’s Place (?)

Theatre history class (Carrie Dennis, Colette Du Toit, Janna Menard, Amy Tatum, Brittany Wells)

Saturday, March 22^nd

Morning Sessions

10:20

Session 1

FAC 1009

Presider: Jill Blondin, Assoc. Prof. of Art History, UT Tyler

Megan Burns, “The Cosmology of Collecting: Time, Space, and Religion in the Gathering of Royal Incan Mummies.” Southern Methodist University. M.A. Program.

Jill Kerr, “The Psychology of the Ancients: A Critical Look at John Onian’s Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome as an Essential Part of a Greek and Roman Art History Course.” M.A. Program, UT Tyler

Jane K. Joslin. “Larger Forces at Play: Florence, the Medici Family and Donatello.” M.A. Program, UT Tyler

Session 2

Braithwaite Hall

“From Tale to Tell! – Finding Performance Material in the Oddest Places”

Presider: Evelyn James,

Panel of East Texas Storytellers: Anne McCrady (awarding-winning poet, author, and storyteller; Inspirity); Dru Woods (educator and storyteller); Evelyn James (theatre educator, director, and storyteller).

Session 3

FAC 2006

Performance in American Drama:

Preisder: Paul Streufert, Professor of English and Classics.

Arron Swink: “Like Father, Like Terrorist: Violence, Intimidation and the Problem of Heredity in Curse of the Starving Class”

Jimmie Price: “Feminine Omnipresence: The Challenge of Maintaining the Male Essence in David Mamet’s American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross.”

Matt Rippey: “’Because you listened’: the Theatre of Cruelty & David Mamet.” MA Program, UT Tyler.

Session 4

BRB 1025

Religious Round Table

“Responses to the Dictatorship of Relativism”

Presider: Dr. Wayne Cooper (Adjunct Lecturer, UT Tyler)

Kazem Mahdavi: Islamic and Persian Philosophers”

A Religious Round Table with Dr. Wayne Cooper (UT Tyler), Dr. Stephen Krebbs (UT Tyler), Rabbi Neal Katz, Father Tim Kelly (St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church), and Dr. Stuart Baskin (First Presbyterian Church).

12:00: Lunch Break

Open Area outside

Braithwaite Recital hall

12:30

Plenary Performance

Braithwaite Recital Hall

Istanpitta: Cheverefoil

Afternoon Sessions

2:00pm

Session 4

FAC 1009

Shakespeare and Film

Presider: Victor I. Scherb, Professor of English, UT Tyler

Helen Clare Taylor, “’Really Bad Eggs’?: Good Nature and Piracy from Joseph Andrews to Jack Sparrow.” Professor of English, LSUS.

Michael Cerliano, “’The Dread of Something After Death’: Nihility and Emptiness in Hamlet” B. A. Program, UT Tyler

Jeremy Light, “Simulation and Simulacra in Almereyda’s Hamlet: Baudrillard and the Filmic Hamlet. MA Program, UT Tyler.

Afternoon Sessions (cont.)

2:00pm

Session 5

Braithwaite Recital Hall

Music

Molly Johnson, Assoc. Prof. of Music. UT Tyler.

Jeff Emge, “A Comparison of Mozart’s Original Serenade in B-flat with Subsequent Printed Editions.” Assoc. Prof. of Music, UT Tyler

Session 6

FAC 2006

Film/Classics/Theater

Session Chair: MaryEllen Wright, Asst. Professor of Theatre

Jennifer Pacenza, “Beardlessness and Prosthetic Masculinity in Much Ado.” M.A. Program, University of North Texas.

Chris Taylor, “Seneca’s Thyestes: Patria Potestas and the Abandoned Child.” MA Program, TWU.

Paul D. Streufert: "Ghosts in the House: Teaching Plautus, Translating Performance." Professor of English and Classics, UT Tyler.

Plenary Session

3:30PM

Plenary Critic

Scott Cantrell

Classical Music Critic for The Dallas Morning News

Braithwaite Recital Hall

Coda

7:30pm

Braithwaite Hall

Staged Reading

A Woman’s Place (?)

Theatre History Class (Carrie Dennis, Colette Du Toit, Janna Menard, Amy Tatum, Brittany Wells)