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We're thrilled about 'Pataphysics Unrolled!

’Pataphysics Unrolled, edited by Katie L. Price and Michael R. Taylor, rolled off the presses in April

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The next PASC Symposium will take place in Spring 2024; click for details.

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Past PASC Projects and Events:

Ad Absurdum: The Politics and Poetics of Absurdity in Avant-Garde Art and Thought
 (Dec. 4, 2020, online)

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Illuminating the 'Invisible City': The Birth of the New in Mid-Century Philadelphia
​(Nov. 15, 2019)

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Photo of Leo Sweeney by Matt Saunders, used with permission from Wilma Theater

A Very Nice Panel on 'Dionysus'
​(April 18, 2019)

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​The 'Vivifying Current of Science': Avant-Garde Arts in the Techno-Scientific Age 
​(Dec. 7, 2018)

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Apolitical, My Ars!: Dissent, Resistance, and Revolution in the Avant-Garde Arts
​(Dec. 1, 2017)

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RE: ACT 
​(March 29, 2017)

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Re: Actions 
​(Dec. 2, 2016)

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Locating the Avant-Garde 
​(Oct. 23, 2015)

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Philadelphia à la Pataphysique 
​(March 21 - 22, 2014)