Liberal Arts and the Embodiment of Performance: Philadelphia, America, and the World | A symposium in honor of Prof. Allen Kuharski

THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AT SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
THE SWARTHMORE COLLEGE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE
THE WILLIAM J. COOPER FOUNDATION
PRESENT 

Liberal Arts and the Embodiment of Performance: Philadelphia, America, and the World | A symposium in honor of Prof. Allen Kuharski

SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2022
CINEMA, LANG PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Co-sponsored by the Swarthmore College Advancement Office, the Office of Off-Campus Study, the Honors Program, the Departments of English Literature, History, and Sociology & Anthropology, the Russian and French & Francophone Studies Sections of Modern Languages & Literatures, and the Programs in Music, Dance, Comparative Literature, Asian Studies and Global Studies.

For the complete schedule and list of speakers go here.

Please join us in this unique gathering in celebration of Allen Kuharski’s teaching, professional work, scholarship and leadership as well as of the accomplishments of the Department of Theater as a whole since he arrived in 1990.

The symposium program will bring together fourteen diverse alumni of the Department of Theater, spanning twenty years of graduating classes (1993-2013), along with a panel of Allen Kuharski’s notable professional and academic colleagues. The former students in the symposium program represent a range of careers as artists and academics that have been made possible by their grounding in a Swarthmore liberal arts education in theater. The speakers will come from various parts of the United States and several foreign countries (Chile, Ecuador, Poland, and Turkey) as well as Philadelphia.

A keynote address will be given by Joel Johnson ’96, who will represent the graduates of the Department that have gone on to successful careers beyond theater based on their undergraduate studies here.

The symposium in Kuharski’s honor is co-sponsored by a long list of departments, programs, and offices on campus, which reflects the rich ties that have been built over the last thirty-two years between the Department of Theater and the rest of the campus. This is also an expression of Swarthmore’s liberal arts mission, and reflects the wide-ranging academic histories of those graduates speaking.  All of the departments, programs, and offices on campus that have co-sponsored the symposium are listed via the link below.

We hope the symposium proves as much about the future as our histories together.