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<p>Association for Asian Performance CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2017<br />
August 2-3, 2017<br />
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV</p>
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<p><strong>Wednesday August 2, 2017</strong></p>
<p>8am Registration and Coffee</p>
<p>8:15am Welcome, Emily Wilcox, AAP President</p>
<p>8:30-9:45am <em>Concurrent Session #1</em></p>
<p>1A. Intercultural Adaptation<br />
<em>Chair:</em> Margaret Coldiron, Deputy Head of BA World Performance, E15 Acting School/University of Essex</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Bridge from Bombay to Broadway: merging musical forms in <em>Monsoon Wedding</em>”<br />
Amanda Culp, PhD candidate, Columbia University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Cultural Transfer between London and Takarazuka: the Imitation and Adaptation of Musical revue in 1920s Japan”<br />
Tomoko Akai, Associate Professor, Kobe Yakka University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“When Cultures Collide on the Jingju Stage: An Analysis of <em>Fushide (Faust)</em> and <em>Woyicaike (Woyzeck)</em>”<br />
Yining Lin, PhD candidate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Modernity, Chinese Culture and Dialectics: Bertolt Brecht’s <em>Turandot </em>and Wei Minglun’s <em>Chuanju </em>Play <em>Chinese Princess Turandot</em>”<br />
Wei Zhang, PhD candidate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</p>
<p>1B. Non-Professional Artists and Sites of Professional Collaboration in East Asia’s Traditional Performing Arts<br />
<em>Organizer and Chair</em>: Alex Rogals, PhD Candidate, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Yeyu, Minjian, Zhuanye (Amateur, Folk, Professional): Theorizing the Changing Status of Musicians in the PRC”<br />
Charlotte D’Evelyn, Professor, Loyola Marymount University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Rural Performance in the Urban Imaginary: Early 19<sup>th</sup>-century Depictions of Jishibai”<br />
Melissa Van Wyk, PhD student, University of Michigan</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Voices Inscribed by Land: P’ansori Pilgrimages and the Acculturation of Sori”<br />
Ivanna Yi, PhD candidate, Harvard University</p>
<p>10-11:15am <em>Concurrent Session #2</em></p>
<p>2A. Agency, Identity, and Survival: Performance Case Studies from India, Burma, Hong Kong, and Taiwan<br />
<em>Chair:</em> Kathy Foley, Professor, University of California-Santa Cruz</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Act for your life: Widows in Vrindavan”<br />
Radhica Ganapathy, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Burmese Marionettes and the Tourist Experience: Exploring the future of traditional puppetry in Myanmar”<br />
Kristina Tannenbaum, PhD candidate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Zuni Icosahedron and the Politics of Performance in Hong Kong”<br />
Whit Emerson, PhD Candidate, Indiana University</p>
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<p>p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Seeing Silent Screams:
<em>Legacy </em>(1978) and the Sense of Becoming a Community”<br />
Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen, PhD student, University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>
<p>2B. Cross-Currents: Major and Minor Asian Translationalisms</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Fleshing out the Techniques (<em>shu</em>): Cosmopolitan Men of Theatre in Shanghai and New York, 1910s-1920s”<br />
Man He, Assistant Professor, Williams College</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Aladdin in China: A Case Study of British Amateur Theatricals in Colonial-Modern China”<br />
Yizhou Huang, PhD candidate, Tufts University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Tamil Dance Championships Vs. Battle of Bollywood”<br />
Kristen Rudisill, Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Crossing Over: Choi Seunghee’s Pan-Asianism in Revolutionary Time”<br />
Emily Wilcox, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan</p>
<p>11:30am-12:45pm <em>Concurrent Session #3</em></p>
<p>3A. Translation/Localization/Adaptation: Working Across Cultures<br />
<em>Organizer</em>: Cobina Gillitt, Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase<br />
<em>Chair</em>: Siyuan Liu, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Cultural Traps and Mishaps: Translating Local Cultures on Stage”<br />
Cobina Gillitt, Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Song On The Sands Of Singapore: The Localization Of <em>La Cage Aux Folles”<br />
</em>Caleb Goh, Lecturer, Lasalle College of the Arts</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Layers of Translation in <em>Kayoi Komachi: a noh chamber opera”<br />
</em>Colleen Lanki, Artistic Director, TomoeArts; PhD student, University of British Columbia</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Discussant: </em>Claire Conceison, Professor, MIT</p>
<p>3B. Collage Panel<br />
<em>Chair</em>: Kevin Wetmore, Professor, Loyola Marymount University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Bannermen’s Plays: Ideology, Technology, and Ethnic Identity”<br />
Kaijun Chen, Assistant Professor, Brown University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“A Variation on ‘People’s Theatre’: Mixed Concepts of National/Popular Theatre in the Context of Urban Modernity”<br />
Ayumi Fujioka, Associate Professor, Sugiyama University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“<em>Honji Suijaku </em>in the Noh play ‘Makiginu’”<br />
Sara Newsome, PhD student, UC Irvine</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Tragedy of Destiny: A reinterpretation of the theme of the modern Chinese drama <em>Thunderstorm</em>”<br />
Aijun Wang, Associate Professor, Huaiyin Normal University</p>
<p>1-2:30pm LUNCH BREAK // Graduate Student Lunch Discussion (Yolo’s Mexican Grill [conference hotel])</p>
<p>2:30-3:45pm <em>Concurrent Session #4</em></p>
<p>4A. Emerging Scholars Adjudicated Panel<br />
<em>We are pleased to welcome these emerging scholars to AAP!<br />
Chair </em>: Man He, Assistant Professor, Williams College</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“<em>Uncle Tom’s Cabin</em> in China: Ouyang Yuqian’s Regret of a Black Slave and the Politics of Appropriation and Impersonation”<br />
Megan Ammirati, PhD candidate, UC Davis</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Trapping the Heron: The Curious Case of Sagi School kyogen”<br />
Alex Rogals, PhD candidate, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Disappearing Wildness: Connecting Spoken Drama Experiments of the 1930s and 1980s”<br />
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen, PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>4B. Critical Practices & Pedagogies<br />
<em>Chair</em>: Kevin Wetmore, Professor, Loyola Marymount University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Culture out of Context: Teaching Japanese Traditional Performing Arts in U.S. Universities”<br />
Sarah Johnson, PhD candidate, University of Colorado Boulder</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“ ‘Love in Contention’: An Exploration of <em>3:10 to Yuma</em>, a Cowboy Western Performed in Kabuki Style”<br />
Tyler Nichols, MFA, University of Hawai’i, and LA Jacobs, PhD student, University of Michigan</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Making of <em>Teesri Dhun</em> (The Third Tune)- Transgendering Performance in Pakistan”<br />
Claire Pamment, Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Rehearsing Institutional Conflicts in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong: Community-engaged Theatre Workshopping for Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education”<br />
Yu Hsiao Min, The Community College at Lingnan University (Hong Kong)</p>
<p>4-6pm. WORKSHOP: A Reading and Discussion of GHOST LIGHT: THE HAUNTING</p>
<p>Playwright: Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, Professor Emerita, UCLA<br />
Director: Penny Bergman<br />
Discussion Moderator: Cobina Gillitt, Assistant Professor, SUNY Purchase<br />
Cast:</p>
<p>Keiko Tamiya/Jonathan Hecht – Michi Barall<br />
Bryan Eamon Quinn – John Weinstein<br />
Lynn Berry – Colleen Lanki<br />
Hellen Gates Porter – Kathy Foley<br />
Entertainment Guru – Wendy Dang<br />
Detective – Kevin Wetmore<br />
Witches, Actors in Macbeth, Taxi Drivers, Others – Members of the Company<br />
Stage Directions – Read by Margaret (Jiggs) Coldiron</p>
<p>7pm. Schmoozefest! + A Celebration of Kathy Foley’s Editorial Service to <em>Asian Theatre Journal</em><br />
Location: Delhi Indian Cuisine Las Vegas</p>
<p><em>Please plan to join us for a yummy dinner and scintillating conversation!</em></p>
<p>9pm. Grad Student Nightcap (right after Schmoozefest)<br />
Location: Chandelier Bar (in The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas)</p>
<p><strong>Thursday August 3, 2017</strong></p>
<p>8:30-9:45am <em>Concurrent Session #5</em></p>
<p>5A. Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Performance<br />
<em>Chair</em>: Fan-Ting Cheng, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Towards A <em>Xiqu</em> Queer: The Theatrical Tactics of <em>Skin Touching”<br />
</em>Fan-Ting Cheng, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Body and Violence: Cultural Expression in <em>The White-Haired Girl</em>”<br />
Huihui Huang, PhD student, Indiana University</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Traveling Home and Forgotten Women in Two <em>Sinset’aryŏng</em>: Dialogues Between<em> </em>Shinya Eiko’s <em>Sinset’aryŏng </em>and<em> </em>Ri Kaisei’s <em>The Woman Who Fulled Clothes”<br />
</em>Eun Young Seong, PhD candidate, UC Irvine</p>
<p>5B. BOARD MEETING</p>
<p>10-11:15am <em>Concurrent Session #6</em></p>
<p>6A. Affective Engagement with the Everyday: a Political, Social, and Global Survey<br />
<em>Organizer</em>: Arnab Banerji, Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Politics of Affect in <em>Praatohkrityo</em> (Morning Ablutions)”<br />
Frances Lieder, PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin Madison</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Resistant Body: Female Performer as the Site of Political Activism”<br />
Mayurakshi Sen, PhD student, City University of New York</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Diaspora performance: affective engagement towards equal citizenship”<br />
Arnab Banerji<em>, </em>Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles</p>
<p><em>Discussant: </em>David Mason, Associate Professor, Rhodes College</p>
<p>6B. Shōwa Performance Working Group (Part 1)<br />
Organizers: Jyana Browne and David Jortner</p>
<p><em>Participants</em>:</p>
<p>Jyana Browne, Lecturer, University of Washington<br />
Yoshiko Fukushima, Associate Professor, University of Hawai’i Hilo<br />
Kei Hibino, Professor, Seikei University<br />
David Jortner, Associate Professor, Baylor University<br />
Kirk Ken Kanesaka, PhD candidate, UCLA<br />
Siyuan Liu, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia<br />
Aragorn Quinn, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee<br />
Cody Poulton, Professor, University of Victoria<br />
Guohe Zheng, Professor, Ball State University</p>
<p><em>Respondent</em>: Thomas Rimer, Professor <em>emeritus, </em>University of Pittsburgh</p>
<p>11:30am-12:30 pm <em>Concurrent Session #7</em></p>
<p>7A. On New Orientialisms: Disney, Chimer(ic)a, and Exot(ice)ism<br />
<em>Organizers</em>: Claire Conceison, Professor, MIT; Michi Barall, PhD candidate, Columbia University; and John B. Weinstein, Dean of the Early Colleges, Bard College</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“Chimer(ic)a: Staging China in Chinese American Plays”<br />
Claire Conceison, Professor, MIT</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“A Whole New Orientalist World: Disney’s <em>Aladdin</em> on Broadway”<br />
Michi Barall, PhD candidate, Columbia University.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">“The Orient on Ice: Cultural Portrayals by Chinese and Chinese-American Figure Skaters”<br />
John B. Weinstein, Dean of the Early Colleges, Bard College</p>
<p><em>Chair: </em>Zhang Fang, University of Toronto</p>
<p>7B. Shōwa Performance Working Group (Part 2)<br />
Organizers: Jyana Browne and David Jortner</p>
<p>12:30-1:30pm LUNCH BREAK</p>
<p>1:30-3pm ATJ Lecture</p>
<p>“Theatre Redux: Reducing, Reusing, Recycling Cultural Legacy to Address New Environmental Issues”<br />
Catherine Diamond, Professor, Soochow University</p>
<p>3:15-4:45pm AAP Membership Meeting</p>
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