PRESENTATIONS

Upcoming

Past Talks

• “Theatre of the (Law) Book.” Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, June 2022
• “Big Theater.” Mellon School for Theater and Performance, June 2021
• “On Typographical Copyright, with Examples from Modern Drama.” Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, February 2021
• “Towards an Infrastructural Geography of the American Theater.” Modern Language Association, January 2021
• “Theatre Infrastructure in the United States: Sources and Problems.” American Society for Theatre Research, November 2020
• “On Typographical Copyright, with Examples from Modern Drama.” The Creative Regimes of Authorship Conference, Oslo, November 2020
• “On Performance Management, or Notes from the SM.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August 2020
• “Towards an Outline of the American Theatre’s Ecosystem.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Digital Humanities Working Group, July 2020
• “On Broadway as Repertory.” The Telephone Hour: Working Papers for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Music Theater/Dance Group, May 2020.
• “Conserving Repertoire Under a Revolutionary Baton: Pierre Boulez at the New York Philharmonic, 1971–1977.” American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2019
• “On Broadway as Repertory.” Harvard Theater and Performance Colloquium, November 2019.
• “The Shubert Foundation, or From Telecharge to the Public Theater.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August, 2019
• “Print and the Playwright’s Authority: A Description and a Fantasy.” International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property Workshop, July, 2019
• “The Shubert Foundation, or The IRS as Theater Patron.” Arts Patronage in Modern America, June, 2019
• “The Theatrical Circuit in the United States: A Bird’s Eye View Circa 1900.” International Federation for Theatre Research, Digital Humanities Working Group, May, 2019
• “To Quote or Not to Quote, or Fractal Shakespeare.” Digital Exhibit, Shakespeare Association of America, April, 2019
• “From the Ground Up, or Field Notes Towards a Theater Geology.” More Soon: A Symposium Celebrating Joe Roach, April, 2019
• “Theater Twitter.” Mid-American Theatre Conference, March, 2019
• “On Performance Management, or Notes from the SM.” American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2018.
• “Big Data and Performance Historiography.” NEH Institute on Digital Technologies in Theatre & Performance Studies, June, 2018. Video available here on YouTube, courtesy of HowlRound. View the slides here.
• “Pierre Boulez Conducts the New York Philharmonic.” Late Modernism and Expatriatism Symposium, Boston College, October, 2017.
• “Every Play Ever Written.” American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2017.
• “The Body of Jesus Christ Superstar.” Law & Society, June, 2017.
• “Broadway Real Estate and Economic Complexity in the Theater.” American Society for Theatre Research, November 4, 2016.
• “Plays, Musical and Non-Musical.” Song, Stage, and Screen IX, June 27–30, 2016.
• “Average Broadway.” American Society for Theatre Research, November 6, 2015.
• “Copyright and Music.” International Society for Music Librarians, June, 2015.
• “Digital Theater History.” Tufts Drama Graduate Colloquium, April 22, 2015.
• “Rules of the Theater: Contracts between Actors and Managers in the Nineteenth Century.” Cultural Brokers: Nomenclature, Knowledge and Negotiations of (Performance) Agents, Managers and Impresarios (1850–1930), Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, October 16–17, 2014.
• “The Seasonable Stage.” Time as Actor Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2014.
• “Visualizing Broadway: A Project in the Digital Humanities.” Digital Humanities Working Group, International Federation for Theatre Research, Warwick, England, July 31, 2014.
• “Graphs, Maps, Trees and Theater History.” Harvard University Information Technology Summit, Cambridge, June 5, 2014.
• “A Pre-History of Performing Rights.” Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop, Los Angeles, June 9, 2014.
• “Graphs, Maps, Trees and Theater History.” Drama Graduate Colloquium, Harvard University, March 26, 2014.
• “Copyright Law and the Aesthetics of Competition in Jones v. Thorne (1843).” C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Chapel Hill, March 14, 2014.
• “The ‘Memory Doctrine’ and the Law as a Model Public Domain.” Public Domains: Print and the Commons in the 19th-Century U.S. (Seminar Discussant), C19, March 13, 2014.
• “On Bow and Exit Music.” New Faculty Lunch, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, February 6, 2014.
• “Theater History and the Industrial Avant-Garde.” Principles of Cultural Dynamics, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, January 24, 2014.
• “The Salve of Duty: Global Theater at American Borders, 1875–1900.” Nineteenth-Century Global Theatre Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research, November 8, 2013.
• “Sex for Sale?: Desirable Bodies in US Performing Rights Litigation, 1856–1911.” Princeton American Studies Graduate Conference, Princeton, April 26–27, 2013.
• “On Bow and Exit Music.” Towards a History of Sound in Theatre (from the 19th to the 21st Century): Acoustics and Auralities, Montréal, November 21–25, 2012.
• “The Trials of Jesus Christ Superstar.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., August 2–5, 2012.
• “Performative Performances: A History and Theory of the ‘Copyright Performance.’” Performance Studies international #18, Leeds, June 27–July 1, 2012.
• “Copyright Law’s Absolute Music and the Impossibility of Absolute Musicology.” American Musicological Society, November 10–13, 2011.
• “The 11:30 Number: Applauding the Musical’s Musical Curtain Call.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August 11–14, 2011.
• “Voice in Theory/Voice in Practice.” Seminar Discussant, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August 11–14, 2011.
• “Variations on ‘Do Re Mi’ or, An Absolute Music Lesson.” Song, Stage & Screen, Kansas City, June 19–22, 2011.
• “Polyvocally Perverse: Stephen DeRosa’s ‘The Baseball Game’ and the Pleasures of Singing Along.” Song, Stage & Screen, Winchester, England, September 2–5, 2010.
• “Polyvocally Perverse: Stephen DeRosa’s ‘The Baseball Game’ and the Pleasures of Singing Along.” Harvard Graduate Music Forum, Cambridge, February 28, 2010.
• “‘Far from the Home I Love’ Tradition and Diaspora in Fiddler on the Roof.” Song, Stage & Screen, College Park, MD, September 2–5, 2009.

Past Events Organized

• Impotent Performance. Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2018. With Tarryn Chun, Chris Grobe, Rebecca Kastleman, and Alisa Zhulina.
• National Theaters Across the Channel: Paris/London, 1660–1793. Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar, Harvard University, May 17–18, 2018. With Sylvaine Guyot.
• Copyright and Collaboration in the Theater. Conference, Yale Law School and Yale School of Drama, March 9–10, 2018. With Brent Salter.
• Theater History and the Stakes of Big Data. Curated Panel, American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2015. With Debra Caplan and Jeffrey Ravel.
• Desire for Narrative in Law and Literature. Panel, Modern Language Association, Vancouver, January, 2015. With Robin Wharton.
• Copyright as an (Un)Common Practice. Panel, C19: Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, Chapel Hill, March 14, 2014. With Nora Slonimsky.
• Intellectual Property and Performance. Working Session, American Society for Theatre Research, November, 2011. With Oliver Gerland.