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<b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"">2014-2015 Lecture Series – LAW and/as PERFORMANCE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MONDAY – April 20 - Ann Pellegrini & Karen Shimakawa<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“REENACTABILITY”<a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><o:p></o:p></a></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Monday, April 20 at 4:30pm in Room 100 Clark House at Amherst College, Ann Pellegrini and Karen Shimakawa, Associate Professors of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will present a paper entitled
<b>“Reenactability<i>.</i>”</b> This is the fourth presentation in a series of seminars this year on the theme
<span style="color:#1F497D">“</span>Law as Performance.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Pellegrini is the author of <i>Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race (Routledge, 1997)</i>, and
<i>Excess and Enchantment: Queer Performance Between the Religious and the Secular.
</i>In addition to teaching, Ann Pellegrini is also the director of NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Karen Shimakawa’s interests include Asian American performance, critical race theory and intercultural performance.
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<p class="MsoNormal">To receive a copy of the paper being presented which will investigate the various forms legal reenactment takes, please email the LJST Dept. Coordinator at
<a href="mailto:mlestes@amherst.edu">mlestes@amherst.edu</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This event is <b>co-sponsored by The Lamont Lecture Fund</b>.<span style="color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ABOUT The Lecture Series – LAW and/or PERFORMANCE<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Our seminar series for 2014-2015 will explore
</span><span style="color:black">Law – </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">at least law legitimated in a democracy that holds certain commitments to transparency – inevitably and constitutively has a public
dimension. And in public, law wears different guises: the congressional hearing, the published opinion, the presidential signing, the trial process, and so forth. While many scholars have taken up the question of law’s public nature, few have conceived
of it as embodied in performances, played out in front of various audiences, with specific communicative effects derived from its liveness, its dialogism, and its theatricality. In this series we wish to explore what difference it might make to conceive of
law as performance. How might such a frame help us analyze legal aesthetics and reconceive the dynamics of law’s legitimization? What kinds of audiences does law imagine and constitute? What is left behind the curtain, so to speak, while those audiences
are preoccupied with the performances in front of them?</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Please Mark your calendars!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Law as Performance lecture series is sponsored by the Lamont Fund and the Department of Law, Jurisprudence &
Social Thought at Amherst College.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Megan L. Estes Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Academic Department Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Department of Law, Jurisprudence & Social Thought<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">Amherst College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif""><a href="mailto:mlestes@amherst.edu">mlestes@amherst.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif"">413-542-2380<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><Pellegrini - 2-15-Reenactability Abstract.doc></div></blockquote></body></html>