Selected Presentations

American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Portland, OR, 11/2015

Working Group: What is Worth Fighting For? Debating the Stakes within Theatres of War

Paper title: No Hero: Performing American Exceptionalism in the Bin Laden Raid

American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), Baltimore, MD, 11/2014

Working Group: Doing Something: Divergent Visions of What Activism Performs

Paper title: Instrumentalizing Activism: The Transformation of Activist into Object

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Scottsdale, AZ, 7/2014

Panel Convener: “Performing War, Dreaming of Peace”

Paper title: “The Paradox of ‘Hearts and Minds’”

ATHE, Orlando, FL, 8/2013

Panel Convener: “War Games: Battling for Pleasure, Performing for Pain”

Paper title: “War as Performance: Battling for the Audience in the Hunger Games Trilogy”

Northern California Performance Studies Platform, Davis, CA, 4/2013

Plenary paper: “Crisis as Opportunity, Crisis as Excuse: Betrayed, Affect, and the Abdication of Responsibility”

ATHE, Washington D.C., 8/2012

Panel convener: “The Personal as Activist: Individual Accounts and Public Action in Anti-War Performance”

Paper title: “Reality and Representation: Personal Experience, Activism, and Betrayed”

PSi 17, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6/2011

“Home is Where the War is: Participatory Performance of the Long War” praxis session