[GSAUCR] Dance Under Construction Registration Open- April 16 & 17, 2010 at UC Riverside

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We are pleased to announce that registration for Dance Under Construction XII: Economies in Motion is now open!

http://www.dance.ucr.edu/DUC/registration.html

DUC will be hosted on April 16 & 17, 2010 at UC Riverside. Participants must register in advanced (deadline is Monday, April 5) and the registration fee is $20. Registration includes a welcome reception following Friday evening's keynote address and lunch on Saturday.

Dr. Ara A. Wilson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and Director of the Study of Sexualities at Duke University, will be giving the keynote address. Ara Wilson is a queer feminist ethnographer of globalization. Drawing on Marxist approaches, queer/feminist theory, and cultural geography, her work maps the effects of capitalist modernity on sexuality and gender in the global south and transnationally. Her long-time research on Bangkok, Thailand, resulted in the 2004 ethnography, The Intimate Economies of Bangkok: Tomboys, Tycoons and Avon Ladies in the Global City (UC 2004). She is currently working on a book project titled, Sexual Latitudes: The Erotic Life of Globalization, that analyzes sexuality and sexual politics at the transnational scale, including such liberal and radical sexual-rights projects as UN meetings and the World Social Forum. Her next project turns to the the subject of transnational bodies by investigating "medical tourism" to Thailand and Singapore. A native of New York City's art world, Wilson was reared on Balanchine's New York City Ballet and Robert Wilson's experimental theater.

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Dance Under Construction (DUC) is an interdisciplinary forum for presenting graduate student work theorizing dance, performance, and the body. It originated as an initiative of the graduate students of UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures and has been hosted by various UC campuses. DUC has grown to an annual student-run event for dance and performance scholars, as well as those in related disciplines. Designed for the development of intellectual inquiry in a supportive and rigorous environment, the conference offers students a chance to explore through experimental modes of research and performance. This interdisciplinary event provides a rare and important discursive space for the stimulation and presentation of cutting-edge research in topics related to the body as a site of cultural identification. Previous conferences have addressed artistic and intellectual exploration of themes such as the Politics of Choreography, Black Aesthetics, Technology and Dance, Globalization, Transnational Bodies, Gender and Sexuality, Dance and Popular culture and Postcolonialism and Performance.

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Hosted by Department of Dance, UCR

Generously supported by the Department of Dance, UCR; Body, Performance & Dance (byped) Research Platform, UCR; the Graduate Student Association, UCR; Department of World Arts and Cultures, UCLA; Department of Women’s Studies, UCR; Center for Ideas and Society, UCR; and Department of Performance Studies, UC Berkeley.