With a two-day series of events, Stanford University Libraries and the Carolee Schneemann Foundation will celebrate the Libraries’ recent digitization of Schneemann’s diaries alongside the acquisition of additional archival materials preserved by the Schneemann Foundation, building upon the original acquisition of the Carolee Schneemann Papers from the artist in 2012. 

This event listing is for a Keynote and Panel Discussion on Carolee Schneemann with Peggy Phelan and Kenneth White on Monday, October 20, 2025 from 5 -7:30 pm in the 5th Floor Bender Room of Green Library. Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is required in advance. A reception will follow the event. 

Peggy Phelan is the Ann O’Day Maples Chair in the Arts Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and English at Stanford University. She is the author of numerous books and essays, including Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (Routledge, 1993); Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories (Routledge, 1997); Art and Feminism (Phaidon, 2001), and, with Richard Meyer, Contact Warhol: Photography without End (MIT, 2021).

Kenneth White is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Visual Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School. He earned a BFA in Film from Syracuse University and a PhD in Art History-Film and Media Studies from Stanford University.

See info and registration for the other "Celebrating Carolee Schneemann’s Archives at Stanford" events:

• Viewing of the Carolee Schneemann Diaries, Monday, 10/20 from 2:30 - 4 pm

• Discussion on Working with the Schneemann Archive with Katie Anania and Dejan Vasić on Tuesday, 10/21 from 2 - 4 pm

• Screening of Three Films (Viet-Flakes, Fuses, and Plumb Line) on Tuesday, 10/21 from 5 - 6:30 pm

About Carolee Schneemann:

Carolee Schneemann (1939–2019) was one of the most influential artists of the second part of the twentieth century. Her pioneering work in a range of media—painting, film, video, dance and performance, installation, and the written word—is characterized by radical formal experimentation and critical investigations of subjectivity, the erotic and taboo, and the social construction of the female body.

Co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries, the Carolee Schneemann Foundation, the Department of Art and Art History, the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, and the Department of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Accessing the Carolee Schneemann Papers at Stanford:

Researchers can access the physical Carolee Schneemann Papers, including the diaries, in the Special Collections and University Archives reading room at Stanford’s Cecil H. Green Library. More information on how to place requests and access the reading room is on the Libraries’ website at library.stanford.edu under “Explore Collections.” Online public access to the digitized diaries is available via Searchworks, the Libraries’ catalog.

If you have any questions, please reach out to akim6@stanford.edu!