Public Events

Through the annual public presentation of speakers, artists and performers, the VSI invites scholars working in hybrid formats to model innovation to the university and its surrounding communities.

Fall 2010 Public Event

Theater Oobleck presents The Hysterical Alphabet

Featuring:

Terri Kapsalis, Voice;
Danny Thompson, Film;
John Corbett, Sound.

Thursday October 7, 7 PM.
Performing Arts Studio
1804 N. Decatur Road, Atlanta

The Hysterical Alphabet is an interdisciplinary, multi-media performance by artist collective Theater Oobleck based on the book written by Terri Kapsalis, illustrated by Gina Litherland, published by White Walls, and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. The work is based on research on the cultural history of hysteria, an under-recognized four thousand-year history that deeply inflects our contemporary ideas about gender and illness. Drawn from primary medical writings from ancient Egypt to the present, The Hysterical Alphabet is an abecedary offering a condensed history of hysteria with levity, playfulness, and critical insight.

Hysterical Alphabet was a collaboration among ILA, Visual Arts, Theater, Music, Women’s Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies and the Emory College Center for Creativity and Arts and was also supported by a grant from the Hightower Fund.