September 30
7:00-8:30PM
THE PERSONAL IS STILL POLITICAL: The Evolution of Feminist Theatre
EVENT RECORDING
The Second Wave Women’s Liberation Movement gave birth to feminist theatre, bringing its rallying cry — “The personal is political” — to the stage. Through content and form, feminist theatre groups built community and claimed space for women’s voices and experiences to be heard.
In this webinar, you’ll get a backstage pass to the history of feminist theatre groups and talk politics, aesthetics, and the future of feminist performance with some of the genre’s iconic artists and scholars. You can find more information including scripts, videos, and suggestions for further reading at www.feministtheatre.com.
This is the first in a three-part panel series, “Feminist Theatre: Past and Present,” that celebrates of the 50th anniversary of Cornell University’s women’s studies program (now Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) as well as the 30th year of its Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) academic specialty. Each panel will highlight a different moment in feminist and lesbian performance history along with how artists and scholars interpret them.
This series is sponsored by Cornell’s Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) and LGBT Studies programs; Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts; James Madison University; CloseToHome Productions; and the Women and Theatre Program of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
Panelists: Sue Perlgut, founder of It’s All Right To Be Woman Theatre, Roberta Sklar and Sondra Segal of the Women’s Experimental Theatre, Bobbi Ausubel of Caravan Theatre, Martha Boesing of At the Foot of the Mountain Theatre, and moderated by Dr. Sara Warner, Cornell University.
October 14
7:00-8:30 PM
Theatre in the Third Wave
EVENT RECORDING
Discussing feminist and lesbian theater of the 1980s and 90s.
Panelists: Deb Margolin formerly of Split Britches, Carmelita Tropicana solo performer, and Moe Angelos of Five Lesbian Brothers, moderated by Dr. Jill Dolan, Dean of A&S, Princeton University (tentative on Jill). Sara to give the welcome address.
November 3
5:00-6:15 PM
Kabbalah and Sex Magic
EVENT RECORDING
A discussion with Professor Marla Segol on her recently published book "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: a Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Penn State University Press, 2021). Professors Jason Sion Mokhtarian (near eastern studies) and Sara Warner (performing and media arts) will serve as interlocutors for the discussion.
Marla Segol is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the “Sefer Yetsirah” and coeditor of Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts.
In this provocative book, Segol explores the development of the kabbalistic cosmology underlying Western sex magic. Drawing extensively on Jewish myth and ritual, Segol tells the powerful story of the relationship between the divine and the human body in late antique Jewish esotericism, in medieval kabbalah, and in New Age ritual practice. Penn State University press
November 18
7:00-8:30PM
Performance in the Post-Wave Present
EVENT RECORDING
Discussing contemporary feminist and lesbian theater.
Panelists: Brooke O’Harra Dyke Division of the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, Tina Satter of Half Straddle, and Aladrian C. Wetzel and Christen Cromwell from Two Strikes Theatre Collective, moderated by Dr. Jessica Del Vecchio of James Madison University. Sara to give the welcome address.
