Act Locally, Perform Globally: Suman Mukherjee and His Theater
Public discussion with Suman Mukherjee.
"End of Poverty? The French Revolution and the Promise of a World Without Want"
A conversation with Catherine Gallagher (English).
“Marx’s Theory of Communism”
A conversation with Paul Thomas (Political Science).
“Reviewing Art”
Acocella with Alla Efimova (Judah L. Magnes Museum), Ramona Naddaff (Rhetoric), and Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle); moderated by Anthony J. Cascardi (Director, Consortium for the Arts).
“Dancing Girls”
A discussion with Joan Acocella specifically geared toward undergraduates, on dance, gender, and life at The New Yorker.
"The Burkha and the Militant: Kashmir in the Public Imagination"
Chhachhi examines dominant media representations which construct reductionist perceptions of the conflict in Kashmir.
Panel Discussants: Joan Acocella, Joe Goode (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies), Wendy Lesser (Editor, The Threepenny Review) and Suzana Sawyer (Anthropology, UC Davis)
Joan Acocella is a dance and book critic for The New Yorker. She has served as the senior critic and reviews editor for Dance Magazine and New York dance critic for London’s Financial Times.
"Bearing Witness on Art and Feminist Politics in South Asia"
At this workshop, Chhachhi discusses the slippage between the unmediated “truth” of testimony and the highly mediated statements made by artists around the same experience.