Thursday, October 12: Political Theatre: From Antigone to Antigone to The Siege
Erin Mee (NYU), Marvin Carlson (CUNY) and Frank Hentschker (CUNY)
Friday, October 13: Culture As Resistance
Derek Goldman (Georgetown), Leyya Mona Tawil (Dance Elixer, Temescal Art Center), and Noelle Ghoussaini (playwright, Friends of the Freedom Theatre board)
Saturday, October 14: “There is No Longer Such a Thing As One’s Own People”: From Empathy to Solidarity
Samer Al-Saber (FSU), and Huwaida Arraf (human rights attorney, International Solidarity Movement founder)
Sunday, October 15: Acting Out Alternatives
Tony Award-nominated actress Kathleen Chalfant and the cast of The Siege
Tuesday, October 17: Play and Resilience
Selcuk Sirin (NYU), Michelle Fine (CUNY), and Nisha Sajnani (NYU)
Wednesday, October 18: Censorship and Freedom in Art and Academics
Alisa Solomon (Columbia), Carin Kuoni (New School), and Zachary Lockman (NYU)
Thursday, October 19: Staging Conflict, Making Peace
Cynthia Schneider (Georgetown) and Joanna Sherman (Bond St. Theatre), and Maria LaHood (Center for Constitutional Rights)
Friday, October 20: Bearing Witness: Seeing/Hearing/Feeling Difference
Shadia Mansour (musician), Zohar Tirosh-Polk (playwright) and Misha Shulman (Director of the School for Creative Judaism)
Saturday, October 21: Practice Resistance
Sarah Schulman (CUNY), David Zellnik (Break the Wall), and Diala Shamas (Center for Constitutional Rights)
Sunday, October 22: Amplifying Underrepresented Voices
Leila Buck (NYU), Linda Chapman (New York Theatre Workshop), Jim Nicola (New York Theatre Workshop) and Jacob Kader (writer/director/producer)