Please Note
Roble Gym is affected by the current campus heating outage, and the theater will be cooler than normal. Warm attire is suggested.
ADMISSION
Lecture
FREE
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Department
Seminar
FREE
Open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff
WHEN & WHERE
Lecture
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 19
6:00 – 7:30PM
HARRY J. ELAM, JR. THEATER IN ROBLE GYM
Department
Seminar
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 20
NOON – 1:30PM
ROBLE GYM 137
SPONSORS
The annual Carl Weber Memorial Lecture and Seminar are made possible through a generous gift by TAPS Professor Carl Weber (1925-2016).
About Harvey Young
Harvey Young is the inaugural Vice President for the Arts, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, and Professor of English, Theatre, and African American & Black Diaspora Studies at Boston University. A historian and cultural critic, he is the author/editor of eleven books including Embodying Black Experience, Theatre & Race, and most recently Theater and Human Flourishing. He has appeared on CNN and Good Morning America and within the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe among other major news outlets.
Public Lecture
How Anti-racism Lost the Popular Vote: Race, Performance and the Idea of America
From the protests catalyzed by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis to present-day ICE deployment in the same city, the shifts in momentum of rivaling campaigns for “justice” have been staged publicly for all to witness. In this talk, Harvey Young looks back on the rise of #BLM and the popular embrace of antiracist ideas in society—with an emphasis on college campuses and arts institutions—and accounts for their subsequent loss of momentum and enforced retirement in the face of resurgent nationalism.
Department Seminar
Spectacles of Violence as Performance
Tailored for the PhD students at Stanford but open to the Stanford community, this Department Seminar/Workshop explores the challenges and ethics of engaging (as a researcher, scholar, and artists) with historical events that were intended to be terrorizing and/or traumatizing. It will also explore how theatre artists, such as playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks and Nia Akilah Robinson, have centered similar abuses in their works. The seminar asks, what is our responsibility to discover, hold, and share histories of violence?
Recommended (but not required) Pre-reading
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