Analyzing a performance art piece by Tehching Hsieh and Linda Montano titled "Rope Piece," Vivian Huang reflects on Asian American sociality and life. Using the performance piece, Huang explains documentation as a process that both divulges but also withholds information; she also critiques the idea of Asian inscrutability as a modality of inquiry into Asian and alien sociality in the US. 

Through an analysis of two Asian North American pieces (text and video documentary) meditating on Chinese labor employed in the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Iyko Day reflects on gendered and sexual temporalities of race, labor, and capitalism in the construction of the transcontinental railroads in Canada and the United States. Day pushes back on a temporal logic of equivalence imposed on alien labor put to work in an industrial, capitalist temporality.

 Two US-based South Asian drag queens, Faluda Islam and LaWhore Vagistan, discuss the aesthetics of their practices: pastiche as a mode of re-making the world; death as well as conviviality as strategies in drag; camp theory in relation to race and ethnicity; and “queer Muslim futures.” This talk was curated and moderated by Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and co-sponsored by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. 

The Renaissance humanist authors who seem to be at odds with ecocriticism’s professed turn to the natural world – in this study, Michel de Montaigne – exhibit, in fact, a certain form of environmental awareness in their work. They index humanism’s shifting relationship to the environment in ways that have shaped our own ecological consciousness.

We should be contemplating and generating other philologies, future philologies, in Shakespeare studies.

Who's got rhythm?  An American in Paris and the gritty reboot as epistemology of the closet.

On the unfathomed depths on the surface of sexuality.