"9/11: Performance and the Real": a talk by Professor Peggy Phelan

Presented by the Stanford Department of Drama and the Mellon Foundation, this lecture is a part of the Stanford Humanities Center Mellon Foundation Graduate Research Workshop:
"The Politics of Action: Art and the Public Sphere"
An ongoing workshop examining the inherent political and theatrical nature of visual and performance arts.

"9/11: Performance and the Real" is a talk by Peggy Phelan examining the events surrounding 9/11 in the context of the intersections of art and reality.

Professor Phelan is the Ann O'Day Maples Chair in the Arts, Stanford University. She joined the Stanford faculty in January 2003, after teaching for eighteen years in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is the author of Unmarked: the Politics of Performance and Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories. From 1997-1999, she was a fellow of the Ope Society Institute's Project on Death in America. Currently, she is writing a book on twentieth-century performance.