Diana Taylor presented her lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Taylor is founder and director of The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. As a major contributor to the area of Performance Studies in the Americas, her work focuses on Latin American and U.S. theatre and performance, performance and politics, feminist theatre and performance in the Americas, hemispheric studies, and trauma studies. Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/