1993 Conference

Performativity and Performance 52nd Session August 26-29, 1993 Longfellow Hall 13 Appian Way Harvard University Catharsis PETER STALLYBRASS, University of Pennsylvania Directed Catharsis STEPHEN ORGEL, Stanford University The Play of Conscience ANDREW FORD, Princeton University Katharsis: The Ancient Problem ELIN DIAMOND, Rutgers University Body/Embodiment: The Shudder of Catharsis in Modernist and Postmodernist Performance   Performing Medicine, Performing Disease ANDREW PARKER, Amherst College Directed Performing Medicine, Performing Disease CATHY CARUTH, Yale University Traumatic Awakenings KAREN NEWMAN, Brown University Contemporary Fetal Politics, Medical Representation, and the Enlightenment CINDY PATTON, Temple University Against Epistemology   Politics of Theater JOHN BRENKMAN, Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center Directed Politics of Theater SANDRA L. RICHARDS, Northwestern University Performance and Black Literary Canons JOSEPH ROACH, New York University Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World COPPÉLIA KAHN, Brown University Shakespeare's Fatal Cleopatra   Performativity and Performance EVE SEDGWICK, Duke University Directed Performativity and Performance K. ANTHONY APPIAH, Harvard University Directed Performativity and Performance TIMOTHY GOULD, Metropolitan College, Denver The Unhappy Performative SCOTT MACOMSON, Village Voice Literary Supplement Disco Dancing in Bulgaria JUDITH BUTLER, Johns Hopkins University and University of California, Berkeley Burning Acts