Cabaret Masivo: Political Cabaret, a lecture/presentation in English and Spanish by JESUSA RODRÍGUEZ. This event was co-sponsored by the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference and the Hemispheric Institute at NYU, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Center for Jazz Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and the School of the Arts at Columbia University. Jesusa Rodríguez is Mexico's leading cabaret and political performance artist, and the co-founder and co-director of the famous Teatro Bar El Hábito in Mexico City. In the aftermath of Mexico's highly contested 2006 presidential election, she organized more than 3,600 cultural activities for the millions who gathered in the streets and the central square of the Mexican capital. Her "espectáculos" (as both spectacles and shows) challenge traditional classification, crossing with ease generic boundries: from elite to popular to mass, from Greek tragedy to cabaret, from pre-Columbian indigenous to opera, from revue, sketch and "carpa," to performative acts within political projects. She and her partner, Argentine singer/actor, own and operate El Habito and Teatro de la Capilla, alternative performances spaces in Mexico City. They have won an Obie for Best Actor in Las Horas de Belén, A Book of Hours (1999) with Ruth Maleczech and New York-based Mabou Mines. Rodríguez contributes regularly to Mexico´s most important feminist journal, Debate Feminista.