Conference Presentations

"Judith Malina’s lifetime diaries as historical chronicle, company history, and personal poems."
Keeping and Making Diaries: Historical Sources and Perspectives: a two day international conference. Cambridge University, UK. March 23-24, 2022.

“Minneapolis, Portland, Paris: Theatre and Protest, 2020-21.” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Virtual Session. San Diego, CA. October 30, 2021.

“Editing Judith Malina” Performance Studies International (PSi). Rijeka, Croatia. July 7-11, 2020. Postponed due to COVID.

“The Many Publics of The Living Theatre” ASTR TLA Plenary, with Susan Brady.
American Society for Theatre Research. Arlington, VA. November 10, 2019

“The Theater of May '68”
Does "La Lutte Continue"? The Global Afterlives of May ’68. Winthrop-King Institute International Conference. Florida State University. Tallahassee, FL. March 28-29, 2019.

"The Role of Dramaturgs and Dramaturgy."
American Dramaturgies for the 21st Century: Engaging with the New Millenium on Stage. Sorbonne University. Paris, France. March 14-16, 2018.

Presenter, "Transforming Theatre and Emergency Medicine: Faultline Theatre Project's Holding Onto the Sky as Community Manifesto."
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Minneapolis, MN. November 3-6, 2016.

Co-convener and Panelist, Play On! Labor and Controversy in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare Translation Project.
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Chicago, IL. August 11-14, 2016.

Presenter, "Judith Malina’s Art, Activism, and Anger."
Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC). Minneapolis, MN. March 17-20, 2016.

Panelist and presenter, American Theatre Archiving Project Plenary
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Portland, OR. November 5-8, 2015.

Participant, ASTR/ATHE NEH Summer Institute in the Digital Humanities Think Tank
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Montreal, QC, Canada, August 1, 2015.

On the train at the Mobile Train Conference from Helsinki to Rovaniemi, Finland, April 2014

Kate Bredeson with Peter Schumann at Fifty Years Bread and Puppet: A Symposium at Boston College in 2013.

Presenter, "From Nothingness to the Lush State of Being: Germinal’s Brave New World."
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Baltimore, MD. November 20-23, 2014.

Presenter, "Beyond the Caravanserail: Nomads in and of the Théâtre du Soleil."
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) conference "Theatre and the Nomadic Subject: A Mobile Train Conference." Helsinki-Rovaniemi, Finland. April 7-11, 2014.

Session co-convened with Jason Fitzgerald at ASTR 2013 in Dallas

Convener and Co-Chair. "The Afterlives of the Sixties in Contemporary Performance."
American Society of Theatre Research (ASTR). Dallas, TX. November 7-10, 2013.

Invited Keynote, "Bread and Puppet in France, 1968."
Fifty Years Bread and Puppet: A Symposium. Boston College. Chestnut Hill, MA. September 14, 2013.

Presenter, "Finding Utopia in the Theatre of May '68."
Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Orlando, FL. August 1-5, 2013.

Panelist, Theatre History roundtable.
Presenter on the Norton Anthology of Drama Vols. I and 2, Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Orlando, FL. August 1-5, 2013.

Presenter, "Community and the Commune: André Benedetto's Avignon."    
Performance Studies International (PSi). Palo Alto, CA. June 26-30, 2013.

Chair, "LEGACIES: The Now-Then of Political Performance."
Performance Studies International (PSi). Palo Alto, CA. June 26-30, 2013.

Co-Chair and Co-Convener, "Brecht and Benjamin at the Chess Board: Mapping Theatres of Exile."
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Toronto, ON. April 4-7, 2013.

Presenter, "Americans Abroad: the Living Theatre in Avignon."
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Toronto, ON. April 4-7, 2013.

Presenter, "Mass Spectacle and May '68."
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Nashville, TN. November 1-4, 2012.

Chair and Commentator,  "Narrating the Nation: Media and Performance at the Borders of Memory."
Western Society for French Historical Studies (WSFH). Banff, Alberta. October 11-14, 2012.

Co-Presenter with Peter Ksander, "We are All Playwrights: A Duet Discussion on the Devised in Practice."
Devising Dramaturgy: A Shared Space Conference. Prague, Czech Republic. April 20-22, 2012.

Presenter, "Staging America: Visions of the United States in French Popular Theatre of the 1960s."
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Montreal, Canada. November 17-20, 2011.

Presenter, "Performing History: Staging France."
Western Society for French Historical Studies (WSFH). Portland, OR. November 10-12, 2011.

Presenter, "Playing with Loaded Dice: Power Onstage and Off for The Aquarium."
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR).  Seattle, WA. November 18-21, 2010.

Presenter, "Two Antigones, Two Faces of Modern France."
Modern Studies Association (MSA). Victoria, BC, Canada. November 11-14, 2010.

Presenter, "Performed History and Embodied Memory in 1960s France."
Performances of Memory in the Arts. Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. May 27-29, 2010.

Invited Keynote, with Kristin Ross. "From the Odéon to Avignon: Theatre and Performance of May '68."
With guest teaching and in-class-workshops for mini-course on May '68. Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH. October 27-30, 2008.

Presenter, "L'Entrée libre à l'ex-théâtre de France"
May '68: Forty Years On/ Mai 68: University of London in Paris. Paris, France. May 17-19, 2008.

Presenter, "Revolution as Theatre and the Revolutions of the Théâtre du Soleil and the Aquarium"
Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). New Orleans, LA. July 26-29, 2007.

Presenter, "C'est l'apocalypse: André Benedetto's Napalm."
20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. February 22-24, 2007.

Presenter, "Performance and Protest of May '68."
Modern Language Association (MLA). Philadelphia, PA. December 27-30, 2006.

Presenter, "L'Odéon est ouvert: the Occupation of France's National Theatre."
1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge Conference. Drew University, Madison, NJ. November 3-4, 2006.

Presenter, "The End of the Absurd: The Swan Song Before May '68."
Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Chicago, IL. August 3-6, 2006.

Presenter, "Under the Paving Stones: Philippe Adrien's La baye."
20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. February 23-25, 2006.

Presenter, "In the Jungle of Cities: May '68 Arrives in Avignon."
Southeastern Theater Conference (SETC). Auburn University, Auburn, AL. April 1-3, 2005

Photo of Finnish Train Conference by Laura Gröndahl, Photo of Kate Bredeson and Peter Schumann by Chris Woodworth. ASTR photo by Kate Bredeson.