Benjamin+Shepard


 * CS45. Benjamin Shepard ** – //If I Can’t Dance: Play, Creativity and Social Movements//

May 28 Saturday 1:30-2:30 PM HM 138

The aim of the talk is to highlight the role of play in social movement activity. Affiliation/Bio: City University of New York, Assistant professor, bshepard@citytech.cuny.edu. Benjamin Shepard, PhD, LMSW is an Assistant Professor of Human Services at New York College of Technology/City University of New York, bshepard@citytech.cuny.edu. He is the author/ editor of six books including: //Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement// (Routledge), //White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic// (Cassell, 1997) and //From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization// (co-edited with Ron Hayduk) (Verso, 2002). His forthcoming works include: //Play, Creativity, and the Social Movements: If I Can’t Dance, It’s Not My Revolution// (Routledge), //Community Projects as Social Activism// (Sage), and //The Beach beneath the Streets: New York’s Contested Public Spaces// (with Greg Smithsimon) (SUNY). In addition to writing, Shepard has done organizing with ACT UP, Reclaim the Streets, Times UP New York, Housing Works, CitiWide Harm Reduction, and Lower East Side Collective.