DAY 1: FRIDAY, JANUARY 23rd

Richard A. Chase North Reading Room and Event Space, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University

OPENING REMARKS: 9:20-9:30

SESSION ONE: 9:30-10:45

• Ria Parzali-Stiles — “Locating Downtown Through Provincetown: A Queer Reimagining of Place”
• Julian Nykolak — “'A Bohemian Underworld': Nicolas Moufarrege and the Circulation of the East Village Art Scene”
• Kanako Tajima — “Downtown Connections: When A.I.R. Travelled to Tokyo”

SESSION TWO: 11:00-12:15

• David Getsy — “Gutter Art: Stephen Varble’s Costume Tours of New York in 1975”
• Kara Carmack — “Rites, Rituals, and the Anthropology of Performance at The Mudd Club”
• Meredith Mowder — “Living in Potatoland: Funding, Class, and Community in 1970s Downtown Performance”

LUNCH BREAK: 12:15-1:30

Lunch will not be provided; please consult the program for a list of dining options local to Bobst Library.

SESSION THREE: 1:30-2:45

• Afonso Dias Ramos — “Rewiring the 1970s: alternatives and experiments in New York and Luanda”
• Pilar Forrest — “London, New York, and the Downtown Spirit: Migration, Memory, and Activism in the Artist Archives of Rita Keegan and Cecilia Vicuña”
• Tyler C. Spencer — “International Downtown: Boris Lurie and the Anti-Establishment Origins of Postwar New York’s Counterculture”

SESSION FOUR: 3:00-4:15

• Bentley Brown — “It Was Like Shan-gri-la: Frederick J. Brown’s 120 Wooster Street and ‘the loft’ as a laboratory of Black intercultural inter-disciplinary action
• Christa Noel — “Boundary Crossings: William T. Williams and the Downtown Avant-Garde”
• Leah Pires — “Dislocating Downtown: Linda Goode Bryant's Just Above Midtown”

SESSION FIVE: 4:30-6:00

• Ksenia M. Soboleva with Nicole Eisenman, Svetlana Kitto, and Nicola Tyson — screening of Trial BALLOON archival footage and panel discussion.