Long Table: What is Political About Art?

Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 6:00pm
Theater Studios 001 (basement level)

Free and open to the public (reservations required)

Join hosts Associate Professor of Theater Katie Brewer Ball and Assistant Professor of Theater Katie Pearl with the cast of Of Government for this semester’s Talk It Out and Long Table conversation from the Theater Department: What is Political About Art? Joining the conversation will be Visiting Assistant Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Zora Duncan, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life Amy Grillo, Associate Professor and Chair of Theater Marcela Oteíza, and Assistant Professor of Film Studies Sadia Shephard.

Pizza and salad dinner wil be served. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are welcome.

Conceived by the artist Lois Weaver, the Long Table experiments with participation and public engagement by reappropriating the dinner table atmosphere as a public forum, and encouraging informal conversations on serious topics. We discuss what’s on the menu. Literally, it is a very long table set up with chairs and refreshments where anyone and everyone is welcomed to come to the table, ask questions, make statements, leave comments on the paper tablecloth, or simply sit, watch, and listen–all around what’s on the menu: in this case, the prompt “What is Political About Art?” 

This event is part of Wesleyan’s Democracy 2024 initiative.