Fefu and Her Friends: Performance as a Method of Interdisciplinary Inquiry

This Friday Morning's Seminar: 
Fefu and Her Friends: Performance as a Method of Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Friday, March 15th, 2013 | 10:30 am -12:30 pm ** Special Time!** | Piper Hall, 1st Floor **Special Location!** |

Loyola University Chicago faculty members participating in the Women’s Studies and Gender Studies Research Seminar will present “‘Fefu and Her Friends': Performance as a Method of Interdisciplinary Inquiry.” Last year the seminar explored performance as a methodology of interdisciplinary inquiry through staging of a full length play, “Fefu and Her Friends” by Maria Irene Fornes, performed by eight of the faculty members of the Seminar. This project investigates the unique capacity of live performance to manifest interdisciplinary research in an embodied, communal form. At the CURL Friday Morning Seminar, members of the faculty cast and crew will discuss how their specific disciplines interact with the content of the play and the ways in which that content is illumined by the methodology of performance. They also will perform an excerpt of one scene from the play.

Presenters include:

Betsy Jones Hemenway, Director, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, Department of History

Ann M. Shanahan , Department of Fine and Performing Arts/Theatre

Prudence Moylan, Department of History

Bren Ortega Murphy, Women’s Studies and Gender Studies, School of Communication

Jacqueline Long, Department of Classical Studies

Mary Dominiak, School of Nursing, Director, Undergraduate Health Systems Management Program

Hector Garcia, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures

Susan Grossman, School of Social Work