Conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music, Theater & Dance (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Nina Bennahum,Theater & Dance (bennahum@theaterdance.ucsb.edu) Dorota Dutsch, Classics ...
Saturday, April 9 / 2:30 PM Plaza outside Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Park Wing entrance Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives is part of an extensive National program of workshops and performances to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature. This staged reading,...
Ana Elena Puga (Ohio State University/Stanford University) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies building, 2135 (2nd Floor conference room) Ana Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the struggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, who was...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester, UK and Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Thursday, December 2 / 4:00 PM Theater Dance West 2517 Applied drama, theater, and other arts (music, dance, film) valuably form the core of undergraduate and graduate courses, engaging student, faculty, and community collaboration...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music/Theater and Dance, UCSB & University of Winchester, UK ) Monday, November 1, 2010/ 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Each November second since the postrevolutionary nationalistic years of the 1920s the diminutive cemetery on the tiny island of Janitzio, Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico has been...
Monday-Friday, November 1-5 Gonda van Steen’s first book, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society. She recently finished a book titled Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), in which revolutionary uses of Aeschylus’...
Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) Wednesday, October 6 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1864, the popular Presbyterian monthly Good Words added a late salvo to the Carlyle-Mill “Negro Question” debate. Despite acknowledging that what Good Words’ British readers knew as “Negro music” –...
Laura Edmondson (Theater, Dartmouth) Thursday, March 11 / 5:00 PM Buchanan Hall 1940 Laura Edmondson is a scholar and playwright whose work focuses on East Africa. Her articles on Tanzanian and Ugandan theater have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, TDR: The Drama Review, and the anthologies...
Chan Park (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State) Kathy Foley (Theater Arts, UCSC) Wednesday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Studio Theater Intertwined Lives is a collaborative performance between Kathy Foley, a noted puppeteer and mask artist of Southeast Asian and Korean material, and Chan Park, an internationally known...
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance 2517 Shakespeare is a frequent traveler to Asia, and for nearly two centuries, East Asian theater directors and filmmakers have engaged Shakespeare in a wide range of contexts...
Satoko Shimazaki (Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado) Wednesday, January 20 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tsuruya Nanboku’s Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (Eastern Seaboard Highway, Ghost Story at Yotsuya, 1825), featuring the disfigured ghost of Oiwa, is one of the most sensational and visually oriented...